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Soft parts: Iris yellow; bill brownish red, slightly dusky along 

 the commissure, yellow on the sides at extreme base; feet and claws 

 black. The crowned hornbill occurs throughout eastern Africa 

 from southern Ethiopia to South Africa and to Angola. It breaks 

 up into five races, as follows : 



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• SCALE • 

 Figure 14.— Distribution- of I.opiioceros melanolkucos in nortiieastkkx Africa 



1, LOPHOCEROS MELAXOLEUCO.S GELOENSIS; 2, LoPIIOCEROS MEI^iXOLEUCOS STEG- 

 MANNI ; 3, LOPHOCEROS MELAXOLEUCOS SUAHELICUS 



1. L. m. melanoleucos.— South Africa, Cape Province, Transvaal, 

 and Natal. The whitish stripes on the sides of the head are narrow 

 in this subspecies and there is no white over the eye. 



2. Z. m. suahelicus.— Southern Somaliland, Jubaland, eastern and 

 southern Kenya Colony, eastern Tanganyika Territory, and northern 

 JNIozambique. In the south it merges with the typical form, while in 



