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Show 1895.] FROM WESTERN SOMALI-LAND. 493 a. 2 irom. Sassabanna, July 31, 1894. b. d ad. Stonybrook, Aug. 19, 1894. Iris light brown. c. 2 ad. Shebeli, Aug. 29, 1894. Found by Heuglin in the Abyssinian lowlands and the Bogos district, Antinori procured the species at Ambo-Karra in Shoa in March, Mr. Jackson in the Ukanbani country in February, and Dr. Reichenow records it from the Pangani River, Kakoma, Igonda, Ussure, Irangi, and Ugalla. Fam. CAPITONIDTE. 105. TRACHYPHONUS SHELLEYI. Trachyphonus erythrocephalus (nee Cab.), Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 394 (Somali plateau); Salvad. Mem. R. Accad. Torino, (2) xliv. p. 551 (1894). A. 2 ad. Milmil, July 26, 1894. b. d ad. Darro Mountains, Nov. 19, 1894. Iris brown ; bill pale reddish brown. Compared with the type this bird is much larger. It measures total length 8*2 inches, culmen 1*0, wing 3*5, tail 3*1. In T. shelleyi the culmen is 0-85, wing 3*1, tail 2*8. The female appears to differ from the female of T. erythrocephalus in having the base of the forehead sulphur-yellow continued into a broad eyebrow, and in having more sulphur-yellow on the fore part of the cheeks and throat. 106. TRACHYPHONUS UROPYGIALIS. Trachyphonus uropygialis, Salvad. Mem. Accad. Tor. (2) xliv. p. 551 (1894). a. 2 ad. Dabulli, Sept. 16, 1894. Iris dark brown; cere black ; bill greyish horn-colour; legs grey. Count Salvadori has separated this species on account of the lateral upper tail-coverts being crimson; but all our six specimens of T. boehmi in the British Museum show this peculiarity, and I very much doubt if T. uropygialis is distinct. The Somali bird has, however, the rump sulphur-yellow, with minute spots of black, which are not seen in T. boehmi, but are apparent in T. arnaucli. 107. TRICHOL.EMA STIGMATOTHORAX. Tricholcema stigmatothorax, Cab.: Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 394; id. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xix. p. 29, pi. ii. fig. 1 (1821); Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 509 ; Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 116 (1894). «. Ad. Sillul, Aug. 6, 1894. Iris black; legs dark slate-colour. This species was not known to Heuglin or the Italian explorers of Shoa, but was found by Mr. Jackson in the Teita countrv, and is recorded by Dr. Reichenow from the Pangani and Ronga Rivers, Nguruman, Aruscha, and the eastern slope of Kilima-njaro. |