Birds -- Tanzania; World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Tanzania
(init.) “E. H.”
“Nos. 115, 116. _Treron calva brevicera_ (Hartert’s Green
Pigeon). In _Novitates Zoologicae_, XXV. 1918, I have, with the
help of Arthur Goodson, reviewed the African Green Pigeons of
the _calva_ group. We were able to distinguish not less than
nine sub-species, and there seem to be one or two other, still
doubtful ones, in N.E. Africa. In the _Catalogue of Birds_ in
the British Museum all these nine forms were united, while
Reichenow separated two, and recently four different ones. The
specimens from East Africa have given us the greatest trouble.
It is evident that a distinct form with a very short naked
‘cere’ or basal portion of the beak, and with a sharply defined
lavender-grey nuchal collar, is found in East Africa around
Kilimanjaro and thence to the Athi River, Machakos, Matabato
Hills, and to the Kikuyu Mountains and Escarpment. This form we
called _Treron calva brevicera_.
(init.) “E. H.”
“No. 152. _Motacilla clara_ (Long-tailed Pied Wagtail). This
is the bird which used to be called for many years _Motacilla
longicauda_, but as this name had been preoccupied, Sharpe
named it _Motacilla clara_ in the fifth volume of the
_Hand-list of Birds_.
(init.) “E. H.”
[Sidenote: PLANTS COLLECTED]
I collected also during our travels some specimens of plants for Dr.
A. B. Rendle of the British Museum, and was fortunate to secure some
interesting species, four of which were new, and not formerly recorded,
and have been described in the _Journal of Botany_ (October, 1916), while
others, unfortunately, were too fragmentary to determine, or to give more
than a genus name, though nine of them are possibly new species.
The East African plants obtained were:
CAPPARIDEAE
_Cleome hirta_ Oliv.
PORTULACACEAE
_Talinum cuneifolium_ Willd.
TILIACEAE
_Grewia canescens_ A. Rich.
GERANIACEAE
_Pelargonium_ sp.
LEGUMINOSAE
_Vigna fragrans_ Bak. fil.
_Rhynchosia_ sp.
RUBIACEAE
_Pentas carnea_ Benth. (forma)
_Oldenlandia Bojeri_ Hiern
COMPOSITAE
_Erlangea Buchananii_ S. Moore (sp. nov.)
_Vernonia Hoffmanniana_ S. Moore
_Vernonia lasiopus_ O. Hoffm.
_Ageratum conyzoides_ L.
_Notonia abyssinica_ A. Rich.
_Wedelia abyssinica_ Vatke
_Melanthera Brownei_ Sch. Bip.
_Senecio disciflorus_ Oliv.
_Berkheyopsis diffusa_ O. Hoffm.
_Aspilia_, sp.
_Achyrocline luzuloides_ Vatke
_Zinnia multiflora_ L. (New World plant; an escape from gardens.)
_Erythrocephalum longifolium_ Benth.
_Triplocephalum Holstii_ O. Hoffm.
_Mikania scandens_ Willd.
_Pluchea dioscoridis_ D. C.
_Polycline_ (sp. nov.?)
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