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and London, it seems to me impossible to separate this race from H. s. senegalus. 

 The coloration is too variable, and the smaller size not always constant. (See 

 also NoviTATES ZoOLOGiCAE, 1915, p. 259.) (This view is more or less confirmed 

 by Dr. van Someren's wonderful series, who will soon give us fuller information 

 about these very difficult forms^ and their allies.) 



509. Telophonus senegalus rafofuscus Neum. = Harpolestes senegalus 



rufofuscus. 

 Telophonus senegalus rufofuscus Neumann, Journ. f. Orn. 1907. p. 376 (" Nordliches und zentrales 

 Angola, nach Norden bis ins Congo-Gobiet "). 



Type: $ ad., N'Gungo, Northern Bailundu, Angola, 12.viii. 1901. C. 

 Hubert Pemberton leg. 



This form is very different from T. senegalus senegalus and cannot possibly 

 be united with it. 



510. Harpolestes australis ansorgei Neum. = Harpolestes australis ansorgei. 

 Harpolestes australis ansorgei Neumann, Bull. B.O. Club, xxiii. p. 53 (1909 — " North Angola "). 



Type : ,$, Pungo Andongo, 3.vii.l903. W. J. Ansorge leg. No. 522. 



Based on three more or less juvenile birds, but young australis differ in the 

 same way as old ones. This form is certainly distinct, but it is nearest to H. a. 

 australis and quite different from souzae. 



? f 511. Telophonus australis dohertyi Neum. = Harpolestes australis minor ? 



Telophonus australis dohertyi Neumann, Journ. f. Orn. 1907. p. 370 (Escarpment, Kikuyu). 



■ Type : ^ ad.. Escarpment, Kikuyu Mts., i.l901. W. Doherty leg. 

 The Escarpment birds are all more or less worn or soiled, but it certainly 

 seems that those from Western Uganda (Bukoba, etc.) are more whitish under- 

 neath. They cannot, therefore, be united with emini, as Reichenow {Journ. f. 

 Orn. 1918, p. 82) proposed. We have, however, no skins from the terra tjrpica 

 of minor. Even Dr. van Someren's series does not help us to decide this question. 



512. Felicinius eruentus hilgerti Neum. = Rhodophoneus cruentus hilgerti. 

 Pelicinius cruentus hilgerti Neumann, Orn. Monatsher. 1903, p. 182 (" Nord-und Sudsomaliland "). 



Type : Sheikh Husein, W. Somaliland, 23. ix. 1894. Dr. Donaldson Smith 

 leg. No. 314. 



513. Laniarius funebris rothschildi Neum. = Laniarius funebris rothschildi. 



Laniarius funebris rothschildi Neumann, Journ. f. Orn. 1907. p. 595 (" Siid-Athiopien vom Hauasch 

 bis zum Borana-Land und zum Rudolf-See "). 



Type : $, Sagan River, Borana, 25. v. 1905. Maurice de Rothschild leg. 



Swainson, instead of " Telephorma." Thereupon Reichenow, Orn. Monatsher. 1907, p. 99, pointed 

 out that Swainson's Telophonus 1837 was obviously only an amended spelling of the same author's 

 Telophorua of 1831, a name which had been overlooked. I quite agree that, therefore, Telophonus 

 is no more acceptable than Pomatorhynchus, and use Harpolestes Cab. 1850 for this genus. Solater 

 and Mackworth-Praed (Ihis, 1918, p. 636) use the generic " Tachagra," but Tschagra of Gray is 

 obviously only another spelling of Tchagra Lesson, Traiti d'Orn. p. 373, which I take to be a new 

 name for Laniarius Vieillot, though Lesson included in the same subgenus Levaillant's Tchagra 

 and a number of other species. | 



