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1. N. ineleagris meleagHs. — Characterized by the black feathers 

 on the dorsum of the neck being much more extensive and abundant 

 than in the other races; the wattles blue without red tips, and the 

 helmet never more than about 18 millimeters in height. This form 

 ranges from the Lake Chad district eastward across the French and 

 Anglo-Egyptian Sudan to Kordofan, south to the Bahr-el-Ghazel, 

 east through the Gojjam, Amhara, Tigre, Danakil, Ankober, and 

 Hawash districts of Ethiopia, through Eritrea to the Yemen dis- 

 trict, southwestern Arabia. 



2. N. riieleagris major. — Characterized by the very small, decurved, 

 hook-shaped helmet (sometimes wanting) ; fewer neck feathers; 

 wattles as in ineleagris but slightly smaller; general size larger than 

 ineleagris. The geographic range of this race is as follows : Upper 

 Wliite Nile to North Uganda to Ankole, east through Uganda 

 proper to the east of Lake Victoria, including both north and south 

 Kavirondo districts, southern Ethiopia east at least as far as the 

 Arussi-Gallaland plateau. Sclater^^ gives the range as extending 

 from Uganda to Kilimanjaro, but I can find no record of this bird 

 east of the Rift Valley. 



The forms neuinanni^ oifioensis, and toruerisis are said to be prob- 

 ably identical with major.^^ However, it should be noted that 

 Hartert ^* keeps toruensis distinct although sinking omoensis into 

 synonymy. Toi'uensis is said to have, " * * * only an apology of 

 bristles and connects the bristly subspecies with those without 

 bristles on the forehead. It differs in several ways * * * from 

 the other forms." 



3. N . in. macroceras. — Characterized by having the helmet larger 

 and longer than in any of the other races; otherwise similar to 

 meleagris. Range : The northern part of the Rift Valley in Kenya 

 Colony from northeast of Mount Kenia, the Meru district, the 

 Lekiundu and Northern Guaso Nyiro Rivers to Lake Baringo, the 

 Sugota Valley, the Suk and Kamassia regions, to the Turkwell 

 country, and the southern end of Lake Rudolf. 



Lonnberg's form rendilis is a synonym of macroceras. 



4. N. m. somaliensis. — Characterized by having the wattles tipped 

 with reddish; the nasal bristles larger and more strongly developed 

 than in the other forms, almost no feathers on the hind neck, often 

 lacking entirely. This form ranges from British and Italian 

 Somaliland westward through the Harrar, Galla, and Arussi dis- 

 tricts of Ethiopia and Jubaland in Kenya Colony west to Waghier 

 and the Lorian Swamp. 



"3 Syst. Avium Ethiop., 1924, pp. 97-98. 



»•' Types Bds. Tring Mus., Nov. Zool., vol. 34, 1927, p. 30. 



