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1. P. p. manritzi. — Eastern Africa from Mashonaland, northern 

 Mozambique, the southern Katanga, Nyasaland, and Tanganyika 

 Territory north to the Northern Guaso Nyiro River in Kenya Col- 

 ony and to eastern I^ganda. Schiter -^ writes that in Kenya Colony 

 its range is from Mombasa to the Rift Valley (based on Claude 



/OO 2.00 300 4-00 J''>0 MIL 5 J 



- SCALE • 



FiGiiRH 11. — Distribution- op PHOENicuurs pukpuueus in northeastern Africa : 

 1, PHOENICULUS PURPUREUS NILOTICUS ; '1, Phoeniculus purpurbos marwitzi 



Grant's statement,"" but Van Someren ^^ records specimens from 

 Kisumu, and from several localities in Uganda (Mubango, Luga- 

 lanibo, Elgon, and Kimiriri River), so the Rift Valley can not be 

 considered the western boundary of its range. Claude Grant records 



^'Syst. Avium Ethiop., 1024. p. 283 



*>Idcm, 1015, p. 2S(;. 



«' Nov. Zool.. vol. 2:). l'.»22. p. S2. 



