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place called Njoro in the thornbush country. \\\ a female fche length of wing was only 75 

 mm., in another 79 mm. and in a third 82 mm., bul in a malc 85 mm. 



All specimens collected by me in the iocaUties mentioned have whitish tips to the 

 tail and differ by that from P. spurius Rcnw. from the Galla land. The small si/c piovcs 

 also that my specimens are the true Somali Bulbul. 



Zosteropidse. 



Zosterops kikuyuensis Sharpe. 



Rchw. III. p. 431. 



In the prinieval forest on the slopes of Kenia this little bird was very conimon. 

 Specimens were shot at an altitude of 2500 — 2700 m. as well as at the range where the 

 real forest and the bamboo mix. Specimens shot in the end of March had the testidés 

 strongly swelled. 



A specimen from the forest at the Escarpment station shot 13 < i has the yellow fore- 

 head somewhat more golden and a little narrower than in the Kenia specimens and forms 

 thus a connection with Z. jacksoni. In other specimens from the same place this is less 

 apparent. Nevertheless it gives some support to the opinion expressed by Shelley that 

 Z. jacksoni Neum. and Z. kikuyuensis Sharpe are only varieties of the same thing. If 

 this is right the distribution would extend from Ruwen/ori to Kenia. If they are distinct 

 Z. jacksoni inhabits the forests from E. Ruwen/ori 1 to Kawirondo and Mau, or eventually 

 Escarpment, and it would in the latter place meet Z. kikuyuensis from Kenia. 



NectariniidaB. 



Anthreptes collaris hypodilus (Jard.). 



Rchw. III, p. 443. 



A specimen obtained near Nairobi 31 /i.> 1910. I think also that it was a represen- 

 tative of this species which I saw at the road-side when we passed through a forest north 

 of Meru borna. 



Anthreptes longmari (Less.). 



Rcnw. III, p. 446. 



Specimens were obtained at Njoro and other places north of Guaso Nyiri in the thorn- 

 bush country where this Sunbird was not uncommon. A male shot at Njoro 26 /-2 in a 

 blooming acacia had strongly swelled testidés. 



A specimen of this species was also observed at Pund a Melia. 



A young male from Njoro 2 '°U has the upper parts inclusive upper tail coverts 

 dark earthy brown without gloss, tail black with violet blue gloss, the two outer pair also 

 with whitish margins, primaries with yellowish white outer edges, lower parts white, 

 washed with yellow on the abdomen, white eyebrow-stripe. 



1 For it has been stated that Z. scotti Neum. and Z. jacksoni Neum. is the same thing. 



