670 Col. R. Meinertzhagen on Birds from [Ibis, 
Most o£ the birds were obtained between Nairobi and the 
coast in December and January, though two were obtained 
at Kisumu on the Victoria Nyanza on 8. i. and 15. i. (both 
isabellinus) } and another (also isabellinus ) at Dar-es-Salaam 
on the coast of Tanganyika Territory on 25. xi. 
L. c. isabellinus has been recorded by Reichenow (Vog. 
Afr.) from Bukoba on the Victoria Nyanza and Bagomoyo on 
the coast of Tanganyika Territory. Lonnberg records one 
from the northern Guaso Nyero (Kenya Colony) on 14. iii., 
and Oberholser records one from Kilimanjaro at 5000 feet 
on 9. xii. 
My East African collection contains 7 adult and 2 imma¬ 
ture isabellinus , and 7 adult and 10 immature phoenicuroides. 
The juvenile birds are very difficult to determine from the 
young of Lanius collurio , but are never so red on the back. 
They usually have a slightly redder tail. The young of 
isabellinus and phoenicuroides are still more difficult, but in 
most cases, December and January birds are beginning 
to show a slight rufous tinge on the crown in the case of 
phoenicuroides. 
I am not aware that phoenicuroides has been previously 
recorded from south of Somaliland. 
Pycnonotus capensis vallombrosse (Bp.). 
Ixos vallombrosce Bonaparte, Comp. Rend. Paris, xlii. 1856, 
p. 766 : Jaffa. 
Pycnonotus xanthopygos palcestince Reichw., 1916 : Jaffa. 
Reiehenow (Orn. Monats. 1916, p. 181) separated Pales¬ 
tine birds from Asia Minor birds, as being greyer on the 
upper parts, and as being even greyer than reichenowi from 
southern Arabia. They also differ from typical Asia Minor 
birds in having the head and throat a purer and deeper black. 
Under parts greyer, the yellow of the under tail-coverts 
brighter. Larger than reichenowi. Type-locality Jaffa. 
Reichenow’s name is an absolute synonym of vallombrosce , 
both type-localities being identical. 
There is no doubt that in fresh autumn plumage these 
differences hold good and the race must be recognized. In 
