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dofan it is replaced by a slightly larger race aeneocephalus. Scla- 

 ter^* considers the birds of Uganda and the southern Sudan (Upper 

 White Nile and Bahr el Ghazal) as typical furpuropterus. I have 

 examined a good series of specimens from these areas and find them 

 to be generally smaller than Ethiopian and Kenyan birds and sug- 

 gest that it may be well to recognize Sharpe's name hrevicaiulus for 

 the Uganda and south Sudanese birds. Table 66 shows clearly the 

 differences in size exhibited in the material available for study in 

 this connection. 



Table 66. — Measurements of S2 specimens of Lamprotornis purpuropterus 



purpuropterus 



Van Someren ^^ collected a series in Uganda and adjacent parts of 

 southwestern Kenya Colony and found the wing dimensions to be 



«" Systema avium .a^thiopicarum, pt. 2, p. 661, 1930. 

 •^Nov. Zool., VOL 29, p. 131, 1922. 



