155 
from Somaliland and Southern Abyssinia. 
111. Sylviella brachyura. 
Sylvietta brachyura Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 258 [Sene- 
gambia*] ; Des Murs, in Lefebvre, Yoy. en Abyss., Zool. 
p. 89 (1845). 
Sylvietta brevicauda Des Murs, in Lefebvre, Yoy. en 
Abyss, pi. 6 (1845). 
Oligura brachyptera Bonap. Consp. Av. i. p. 25 7 (1850) 
[Sennaar *]. 
Oligocercus microurus Cab. J. f. O. 1853, p. 109 [part]. 
Oligocercus micrurus Heugl. Ibis, 1869, p. 141 [part: 
Sennaar, S. Nnbia, Taka, White Nile, Kordofan]. 
Oligocercus rufescens Hartl. Abb. nat. Yer. Bremen, vii. 
p. 92 (1880) [Lado]. 
Sylviella micrura Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 154 
(1883) [part, specimens a , b } c\. 
a. $. Maritchi, Abyssinia, 22 March, 1899. (No.442.) 
Iris light brown; bill dark brown; legs brown. 
In the f Catalogue of Birds/ Troglodytes micrurus Rupp, 
and Sylvietta brachyura Lafr. are united as belonging to one 
and the same species, but with the material now available we 
are in a position to point out that this is not the case. The 
white-eyebrowed, white-throated bird with a shorter, stouter, 
bill [S. micrura (Rupp.)) is found in Somaliland, Eastern 
Abyssinia, as far north as Bogos-land, and as far south as 
Kibaradja and Malindi on the coast of East Africa. 
S. brachyura Lafr., which has the superciliary stripes and 
throat uniform rust-colour, and the bill longer and more 
slender, ranges from Equatorial Africa, through Kordofan, 
Sennaar, and S. Nubia to the Anseba valley, Bogos-land, 
and Western Abyssinia. 
It is probably by accident that Lafresnaye gave the locality 
of this species as Senegambia, for Bonaparte subsequently 
corrected it to Sennaar. The synonymy of the two species 
should stand as given above. 
There can be no doubt that S. jacksoni Sharpe, from 
Kavirondo, is synonymous with S. whytii Shelley from 
* Bonaparte gives the locality as u Sennaar ”; this is no doubt 
correct. 
