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1. Z>. /. tnassaicus. — From Mount Moroto and the Turkwell coun- 

 try in Uganda southeast to Lake Baringo, Kenya Colony, and east 

 through Kenya Colony from Mount Kenia to the coastal districts, 

 the Equator roughly forming the northern limit, south to northern 

 Tanganyika Territory, avoiding the coastal belt. 



2. D. f. Jiemprichii. — Kordofan, Sennar, Eritrea, Ethiopia, French 

 Somaliland, the western half or so of British Somaliland, southern 

 Italian Somaliland, Jubaland, and northern Kenya Colony to the 

 Lekiundu River and Lamu. Sclater and Praed ^ do not list this 

 bird in their Sudanese report, and Sclater ^° does not include any 

 part of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in the range of this form. How- 

 ever, Reichenow ^^ records it from Kordofan and Sennar. 



The two specimens of Tnassaicus obtained bj^ the Frick expedition 

 are in fairly worn plumage but are not molting. One of them is 

 yellower on the abdomen and has the ventral streaks darker and 

 more distinct than the other. The dimensions of these birds are 

 as follows : Wing 83-84, tail 43-44, culmen 16.5, and tarsus 15-17 

 millimeters. 



The Masai cardinal woodpecker is widely distributed throughout 

 its range, living in pairs or singly in the thombush country, espe- 

 cially in the more open parts where the acacia and mimosa trees 

 attain a larger size than in the real thickets. Still, it does occur 

 in dense thorny tangles as well, as Van Someren has obtained it at 

 Tsavo, a region where the thorny shrubs and trees form an almost 

 impenetrable mass of vegetation. 



Mearns observed it at the following places: Lekiundu River, 

 August 4-8, 40 birds; Meru swamp, August 9, 2 seen; Tharaka, 

 August 12-13, 14 birds; Tana River and junction of Tana and 

 Thika Rivers, August 14-26, 64 noted ; Thika River, August 26-27, 

 10 birds ; west of the Ithanga Hills, August 28, 4 seen ; Athi River 

 and vicinity, August 29 to September 1, 28 birds noted. 



DENDROPICOS FUSCESCENS HEMPRICHII (Ehrenbcrg) 



Picus hemprichii Ehrenberg, in Hemprich and Ehrenberg, Symb. Phys., Av. 

 fol. r, 1828 : Akiko, Ethiopia. 



SpeciTnens collected: 



Four males, two females. Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 1-20, 

 1911. 



One male, Moulu, Ethiopia, December 17, 1911. 

 One male, Sadi Malka, Ethiopia, January 31, 1912. 

 One male, Hawash River, Ethiopia, February 13, 1912. 

 One male, near Gardula, Ethiopia, March 28, 1912. 



"Ibis, 1919. 



"Syst. Avium Ethiop., 1924, p. 298. 



" VOg. Afr., vol. 2, pp. 197-198. 



