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Recently published Ornithological TVor/cs. 
97. Mearns on Ten new African Birds. 
[Descriptions of Ten new African Birds. By Edgar A. Mearns, U.S. 
Nat. Mus. Smiths. Miscell. Collect, vol lvi. No. 14. Washington, 
U.S.A., 1911.] 
The following species and subspecies of Birds are described 
as part of the results of the “ Smithsonian African Expe¬ 
dition under the Direction of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.” 
We have already noticed Col. Roosevelt’s interesting narrative 
of his expedition (see above, p. 394), and are glad to find 
that it has been so successful as regards birds, although its 
principal object, we believe, was to obtain specimens of the 
larger Mammals of Africa before their approaching extermi¬ 
nation. 
The species and subspecies of birds now described as new 
ar e Francolinus schuetti maranensis (Kilimanjaro) ; F.s. kapi- 
tensis (Athi plains) ; F. s. keniensis (Mt. Kenia) ; Nectarinia 
johnstoni idia (Mt. Kenia) ; Cinnyris mediocris keniensis 
(Mt. Kenia); Cyanomitra changamwensis (Mombasa); An - 
threptes collaris elachior (near Mombasa) ; Pseudonigrita 
arnaudi kapitensis (Kapiti Plains) ; Lagonosticta incerta 
(Gondokoro, White Nile) ; Sporopipes frontalis abyssinicus 
(Abyssinia). 
We think that it would have been better to have sent 
Dr. Mearns to the British Museum to examine the specimens 
there before describing these supposed novelties. 
98. Mearns on Fifteen new African Birds. 
[Descriptions of Fifteen new African Birds. By Edgar A. Mearns, 
U.S. Nat. Mus. Smiths. Miscell. Collect, vol. lvi. No. 20. Washington, 
U.S. A., 1911.] 
Ten of the forms described in the present paper are pro¬ 
ducts of Col. Roosevelt’s expedition to East Africa. The 
species and subspecies now described are Pternistes leuco- 
scepus keniensis ; P. 1. kilimensis ; Francolinus grisescens 
(Uganda); F.granti delutescens (Kenia); F. schuetti zappeyi 
(East coast of Lake Victoria); Ptilopachus fuscus keniensis 
(Kenia); Turnix sylvatica alleni ( Kenia); Xanthophilus bojeri 
alleni (coast of B.E.A.); Urceginthus bengalus brunneogularis 
(N.W. of Kenia) ; Pycnonotus layardi fayi (B.E.A.); P. 1. 
