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Somali types range south in the subcoastal belt to Tanganyika Terri- 

 tory and there spread out to the west. I have seen a female from 

 Kilosa, and while it is paler than birds from the north end of Lake 

 Tanganyika and from Uganda, it is much nearer to them than to the 



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- SCALE • 

 FiGDEK 26. — Distributiou of Quclea cardinalis. 



1. Q. c. cardinalis. 



2. Q. c. pallida. 



very pale north Kenyan race. Gyldenstolpe finds Tanganyikan birds 

 to be slightly larger than true cardinalis. This I can not uphold, as 

 my material shows no such difference. Van Someren ^^ writes that 

 Nairobi males have brighter, more richly colored red heads and 

 throats than Ugandan examples. This also I can not corroborate with 



BJNov. Zool., vol. 29, p. 146, 1922. 



