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Phyllastrephus placidus (Shell.). 



IiYllW. III, p. 101. 



In a dense forest at Mc Naughtons farm near Nairobi 1 shot a spccimm which 

 absolutely agrees with Sjöstedt's specimens from Kilimanjaro. 



The distribution of this species does not appear to go further west than to Man, bul 

 on the other hand far to the south beyond Lake Nyassa. 



Phyllastrephus cerviniventris? Shell. 



Rchw. III. p. 403. 



One days marcli south of Meru borna a young Phyllastrephus was shot 30 /i, in a dense 

 patch of forest. It resembles closely Ph. cerviniventris with regard to the colour of the 

 feet, tail, tail-coverts etc., but Dr. Reichenow, to whom the specimen was sent for com- 

 parison, has kindly drawn my attention to the fact that the back is darker olive, the 

 lower side more sombre, and more greyish, and the bill darker than in that species. The 

 differences may, however, be due to the youth of the present specimen. It may also be 

 so me geographic variety of Ph. cerviniventris which in the Kenia district replaces the typi- 

 cal form, the distribution of which appears to extend from Kilimanjaro and southwards 

 to the Nyassa-district. For the present the question must be left open for lack of suffi- 

 cient material. 



Andropadus gracilirostris Strickl. 



Rchw. III. p. 411. 



I obtained only one specimen of this Bulbul in a forest north of Meru borna (Febr. 2:d 

 1911). It was a male with the length of wing 85 mm.; iris light brown. 



This bird must regarded as belonging to the true West African forest-fauna, and 

 reaches probably the extreme range of its distribution in the neighbourhood of Meru borna. 



Neumann has given a separate subspecific name »percivali» to birds from Kikuyu, 

 but in his latest work »Die Vogelfauna des Mittelafrikanischen Seengebietes» (p. 344) 

 Reichenow disregards this saying that the species is distributed from Senegambia to 

 Congo and eastwards to Kikuyu. 



Andropadus latirostris Strickl (A. 1. eugenius Rchw.). 



Rchw. III, p. 415. 



This bird was found to be coramon in a thick forest at Mc Naughtons farm outside 

 Nairobi and also in the forest reserve at the Limuru road. Its short rattling notes repeated 

 över and över again were heard in many places from the dense foliage, but the bird itself , 

 in its greenish plumage, was very difficult to discover, even if it all the time repeated 

 its calling note »chilp, chilp ». 



This locality might be the south-eastern limit of the distribution of this bird which 

 certainly is an offshoot of the western forest-fauna, especially as according to O. Grant 



