KTJNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. KAM) 47. N:<> 5. Sfi 



This latter locality appears to be far to the northwest of its hitherto known area 

 of distribution. In the northeast v. Erlanger found it at the Lower Ganale (.Juha) 

 river 1 and before this Witu was the northernmost locality where it had been found ( I! u- 



CHKNOW). 



A male specimen from Kibonoto, Kilimanjaro, which Prof. SjÖSTEDT 2 bas collected 

 in No v. 1905 and mentions in his paper on the birds of this region under the name of »Tro- 

 chocercus bivittatas Rchw. » has the innermost secondary on both sides pure whito and 

 forms thus a connecting link with the South African Trochocercus cyanomelas (Vieill. ). 

 The East African bird is thus hardly inore than a subspecies. 



Tchitrea viridis (St. Muller). 



Rchw. II. p. 504. 



Tn the forest reserve at the Limuru road not far from Nairobi two males were shot 

 the 4 th of January and their testidés were already strongly enlarged. The naked ring around 

 the eye and the corner of the mouth were light blue, the bill of the same colour but a 

 little darker. The interiör of the mouth was yellow. The feet and legs bluish grey. In 

 both these specimens the upper wing coverts are more or less completely white and three 

 to five of the secondaries are broadly margined with white. In one of the specimens the 

 under tail coverts are white, washed with rufous, in the other they are much more satu- 

 rated with rufous and almost of the same shade as the tail feathers (ont he lower side). 

 The steelblue gloss extends in both specimens down on the breast. The under wing 

 coverts are grey, the small ones nearest the edge of the wing blackish with sorae metallic 

 blue gloss, the innermost and largest in one of the specimens somewhat cinnamon- 

 coloured. 



In a specimen shot at Rooruka river ' U 1911 the lower tail coverts are like those of 

 one of the Nairobi-specimens, white washed with rufous, and it also agrees in other re- 

 spects with the Nairobi-specimens except with regard to the wings. In the Rooruka-spe- 

 cimen only some of the greater wing coverts are broadly edged with white, the others are 

 black, but almost all wing quills, except the two first primaries and the three last secon- 

 daries, are edged with white. 



In a fourth specimen shot in a forest somewhat south of Meru borna 28 /i 191 J the 

 lower tail coverts are dirty whitish, the wing coverts are mostly white in their visible parts 

 and all wing quills except the five outer primaries are edged with white. The under wing 

 coverts are dark grey. All these specimens have rufous backs and greatly elongated 

 rufous tail feathers. 



A specimen obtained at the same locality, and on the same day as the one just men- 

 tioned has the longest tail feathers only 3 cm elongated beyond the others, although it 

 was a breeding male with the testidés swelled just as much as in the other male. With 

 regard to its colour it nearly resembles one of the Nairobi-specimens with white margins 



1 Journ. f. Ornith. 1905, Bd. 53. p. 687. 



2 Wiss. Ergebn. schw. zool. Exp. Kilimandjaro 1905 — 06. Vögel. p. 110. 



