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11. LIST OF THE AFRICAN PSITrACIDAE. 



1. Psittacus erithacus erithacus L. 



The true red-tailed grey Parrot occurs from tlie Gold Coast to Katnmbela and 

 Bih6, in Benguella, and eastwards to Kavirondo, on the east shore of Lal;e Victoria, 

 where I saw a flock near Kwa Kitoto, now Port Florence, in April 1894. Hartert 

 {Kat. Sencltenl/i'i-ij. Mi/s., 1801, p. 1.57) lias separated the birds from the Congo as 

 megarhynchus on account of their supposed larger bill, from a smaller liilled form, 

 supposed to occur in Upper Guinea. As to the specimens before me, I can see no 

 difference between birds from the low#r Niger, the islands of the Golf of Guinea, the 

 Ogowe River, and Uganda. Unfortunately there are not enough wild shot specimens 

 from Upper Guinea (Togo, Gold Coast) available for comj)arison, either in London, 

 Berlin, or Tring. So I think, for the present, better to leave all under the name 

 of erithacus. 



It seems that the males have always larger bills, and are somewhat larger 

 than the females. 



The following specimens are in the Tring Museum : 



Des;ama, Southern Nigeria 



2. ii.— 2. vi. 02. 

 4. xii. 01. 

 vi. 01. 

 30. i. 04. 

 6-7. V. 07. 

 28. vii. 07. 

 14. viii. 07 



Ansor"(' coll. 



3 c?(?. 3 « ?. 



c?. Oguta, „ „ . . . 



2 not sexed. Bellavisfa, Isle of Priucipe 

 c?. Banterberi, Fernando Po . . . 

 (? ? . Lambarene, Ogowe River . 

 ? . Ogewa, Lake Eliva-Elvolo, Ogowe River 

 6 . Ombrokua, Ugomo, ,, „ . 



* not sexed ? Katumbela, Benguella 

 <?. Ngongo, Ussoga ..... 

 ? . Kauyanga, „ . . . • . 



not sexed, Uganda Protectorate . 

 ,, ,, Masindi, Unyoro .... 

 (?. Budongo Forest, „ . . . . 

 ? . Wau Island, Lake Kivu 



Besides these, there are some normal 

 captivity, among which is a bird with tail and longest ujjpcr and under tail-coverts 

 white instead of red, but otherwise normally coloured. 



0. iii. 99. 

 7. iii. 99. 



12. i. 07. 



Mocquerys coll. 

 Seiraund „ 

 Ansorge 



Mocquerys 

 Ausorge 



Seth Smith 



Grauer 



15. xi. 07. „ „ 



and some aberrant specimens from 



2. Psittacus erithacus timneh Fras. 



This form replaces the true eritJtacNS in Liberia and Sierra Leone. 

 There are two specimens in the Tring Museum : 

 " Sierra Leone " (ex captivity). 

 One without any label whatever. 

 The last specimen is very interesting. It has a tail which is intermediate in 

 colour between that of the true erithocu.t and of timneh. 



• Tills locality is tlie most soutliern known in modern times, but is not to be doubted, as the bird is 

 already mentioned as occurring in Bibc, liy I.adislaus JIagyar : cf. Finch, Hie PaimtjiUn. p. Iil2. Neither 

 Ausorge, uor Pcmicu and I'emberton, however, lound the bird in Bih6 or elsewhere in Angola. 



