368 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAB XXIX. 1922. 



898. lole tickelli peracensis Hart. & Butl. = lole madellandi peracensis. 



Idle tickelli peracensis Hartert & Butler, Nov. Zool. 1898, p. 506 (Gunong Ijau in Perak, Malay 

 Peninsula). 



Type: (J ad., Gunong Ijau, 4,500 feet, March 1898. A. L. Butler leg. 

 No. 30. 



899. Criniger barbatus ansorgeanus Hart. — Criniger iarbatus ansorgeanus. 



Criniger barbatus ansorgeanus Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xix. p. 97 (1907 — " Delta of River Niger, 

 Degama, Oguta"). 



Type : i^ ad., Degama, 12. v. 1902. W. J. Ansorge leg. No. 427. 



900. Criniger gularis balicus Stres. = Criniger gularis balicus. 

 Criniger gularis balicus Stresemann, Nov. Zool. xx, p. 358 (1913— Bali). 



Type : c? ad., Gitgit, Bali, 2.2. 1911. Erwin Stresemann leg. No. 222. 



901. Criniger affinis harterti Stres. = Tkapsinillas affinis harterti. 



Criniger affinis harterti Stresemann, Nov. Zool. xix, p. 342 (1912 — ^Peling Island between Sula and 

 Celebes). 



Type : Adult, Paling Island, May-August 1895. From Cursham's native 

 hunters. 



902. Criniger lucasi Hart. = Thapsinillas chloris lucasi. 

 Criniger lucasi Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1903, p. 13 (Obi Major). 



Type : cj ad.. Obi Major Island, Moluccas, September 1897. William 

 Doherty leg. No. 938. 



(Though differing by its yellow lores and larger size, the Obi form can hardly 

 be anything but a subspecies of chloris.) 



903. Xenocichla fiavicollis sorer Neum. = Atimastillas flavicollis soror. 



Xenocichla fiavicollis soror Neumann, Orn. Monatsber. 1914, p. 9 (" Ng' Goumie Fluss," i.e. Ngounie 

 River, Ogowe). 



Type: ? (not fully ad. ?), Komadekke, Ngounie River, 23. xi. 1907 (not 

 23.xii.). W. J. Ansorge leg. 



(Reichenow, Journ. f. Orn. 1918, p. 95, says that soror is the same as flavigula 

 Cab., but it differs from the latter as described by Neumann. On the other 

 hand, I agree with Neumann that paUidigula Sharpe is not separable from 

 flavigula. 



The genera of these Pycnonotidae are very little understood. As I cannot 

 at present go in for a detailed study of these birds, I adopt Oberholser's genus 

 Atimastillas. Oberholser carefully reviewed these genera, but I shaU finally 

 doubtless not recognise all his genera, though at present I am unable to say how 

 many should be suppressed.) 



f 904. Xenocichla harterti Rchw. = Criniger simplex. 



Xenocichla harterti Reichenow, Nov. Zool. 1895, p. 60 (" Siidliohe Teile von Sierra Leone und Liberia " ). 



Type : (Jad.,Robertsport, Liberia, 12.vi.l891. Jackson Demery leg. No. 15. 



The type specimen, like many others from Liberia, had been in spirits, and it is 



now admitted that the supposed differences were due to the effect of the spirits. 



