386 Annals of the South African Museum. 



42?A. BYCANISTES CRISTATUS (Eiipp.). 



This East African species extends southwards to the Zambesi, 

 where it was got by Kirk. It is easily distinguished from 

 B. buccinator by its white lower back and by the black of the 

 under-parts reaching to the legs, which are clothed in front with 

 black and behind with white feathers. The secondaries, too, are not 

 tipped with white. 



440. DENDROPICUS CARDINALIS (Gmel.). 



440A. DENDROPICUS CARDINALIS HARTLAUBI Malh. 



Eeichenow (Vog. Afr. ii. p. 193) separates the Cardinal Wood- 

 pecker from the Zambesi Valley and northwards under the latter 

 of the two names ; he states that it differs from the typical form 

 in its somewhat smaller size, its stronger olive tone above, and the 

 weaker and less conspicuous black streaks on the lower surface. 

 Two examples from the Zambesi Valley are preserved in the South 

 African Museum. 



485. PCEOCEPHALUS ROBUSTUS ANGOLENSIS Eeichw. 



Reichenow (Vog. Afr.) regards the Brown-necked Parrot merely 

 as a subspecies of Levaillant's Parrot (P. robustus) and has given 

 it a new name, reserving fuscicollis of Kuhl for the West African 

 subspecies. 



556. GYPS EUEPPELLI EUPPELL'S VULTURE. 



A Vulture which appears to be undoubtedly referable to this 

 species was recently obtained at Livingstone, on the Zambesi, a 

 few miles above the Victoria Palls by the collector of the South 

 African Museum. I think there can be little doubt that the 

 Vultures recorded by Ayres from Potchefstroom, and probably 

 from Natal and Mashonaland, were really referable to the White- 

 backed species next on this list. 



557. PSEUDOGYPS AFRICANUS (Salv.). 



The South African Museum has recently received through the 

 kindness of Mr. Austin Roberts a fine example of the White-backed 

 Vulture found at Potchefstroom, an allusion to which will be 

 found in a footnote on p. 388 of the third volume of the Fauna. 

 The specimen agrees very well with the descriptions given by 

 Sharpe and others, and is markedly distinct from Ghjps kolbii and 



