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tawny-buff. It has the superciliary stripe and lortsal spot only indis- 

 tinctly developed, not contrastingly whitish as in the adult. On the 

 underparts it differs from the adult in lacking the black gorget and 

 the red median band. The pectoral region is somewhat duskier than 

 the rest of the underparts and is grayish buff; the chin and upper 

 throat pure white ; the sides, flanks, and under tail coverts buffy ; the 

 middle of the abdomen whitish. 



The young bird from Bodessa is older and has the crown and 

 upperparts generally as reddish as in fully adult birds. It is just 

 beginning to show the black gorget and the reddish median band. 

 The distribution of the latter color is unusual in that it extends to 

 the sides of the breast, which are a mixture of tawny and pinkish. 

 It takes two years to acquire the fully adult plumage, but more 

 observations and data are needed on this point. 



NICATOR CHLORIS GULARIS Finsch and Hartlanb 



Nicator gularis Finsch and Haetlaub, Die Vogel Ost-Afrikas, p. 360, 1870: 



Tete, Zambesi. 

 Specimens collected: 1 "male" (=female), 1 unsexed (=female), Tana River, 



Kenya Colony, August 15-16, 1912. 



Soft parts: Iris grayish brown; eye ring greenish yellow; bill 

 brownish black shading to grayish on sides and below; angle of 

 mouth greenish yellow; feet plumbeous; claws brownish gray. 



Nicator chloris has two well-marked races, the typical one, with 

 yellowish auriculars and with a grayish wash on the throat and 

 breast, and the present form, with buffy ear coverts, throat, and 

 breast. The distribution of these races is as follows : 



1. N. c. chloris: Western Africa from Senegal, Portuguese Guinea, 

 Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gold Coast, Southern Nigeria, Cameroon, 

 Gaboon, and the Belgian Congo eastward to the Katanga and across 

 Uganda to the western slopes of Mount Elgon. 



2. N. c. gularis: Eastern Africa, chiefly the low coastal plain from 

 southern Jubaland south to northern Zululand, inland to Gazaland 

 and to Nyasaland. It may be that gularis really consists of tw^o 

 races, a lighter, more greenish-backed, southern form and a northern 

 race. The latter has not been separated from the former nomen- 

 claturally as yet, but I find that the present two birds and another 

 from Mount Garguess are darker, less greenish above than two from 

 Morogoro, Tanganyika Territory. Furthermore, van Someren^^ 

 writes that while he has no typical (Zambesi) birds for comparison, 

 his series from Lamu, Sagala, Mombasa, and Bura, are "not as green 

 on the back as depicted in the plate in Shelley, vol. v, pt. 2." With- 



es Nov, Zool., vol. 29, p. 114, 1922. 



