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Heuglin ^« records this bird from Khartoum and the Blue Nile, but 

 they write that they have seen no Sudanese examples and that A. L. 

 Butler never met with this species in his many years in that country. 

 Van Someren '" writes that, " * * * it is possible that this race 

 extends to North Rudolf." In this he is probably correct, as the 



O . /oo ico 300 ^00 j-o o /ifiej 

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FiGDRE 18. — Distribution of Pogoniulus pusillus in northeastern Africa : 1, 



POGONIULUS PnSILLUS UROPYGIALIS ; 2, POGONIULUS PDSILLCS AFFINIS 



specimens collected by Mearns at El Ade and Sagon River are 

 uropygialis. The race is like a-fjinis in the color of the dorsal head 

 and mantle streaks, but is slightly darker, more olivaceous below, 

 and in about a third of tlie cases has a red or reddish-orange patch 

 on the rump. This bright patch (which is small, restricted to the 



ssOrn. N. O.-Afr., p. 762. 



s^Nov. Zool., vol. 29, 1922, p. 60. 



