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/. m. pallidus: ^^ The greater part of Nigeria, except parts of the 

 northern areas; confined to high forest or to broken forest at the 

 edge of the dense forest (Umuagwu, Owerri Division; Kanno, Plateau 

 Province, and between Ilesha and Erinomo, Western Provinces). 



/. m. conirostris: ^^ The dense evergreen forests from southern 

 Cameroons (including Mount Cameroon; Bitye, Doum, Sangamelima, 

 River Ja, etc.), Spanish Guinea (Bebai) and Gaboon (Moonda River, 

 Oyem), eastwards across the Belgian Congo (where it inhabits moun- 

 tain forests on Ruwenzori (6,800 feet) as weU as lowland forests; 

 Kamituga, Koteli, Ibembo, Wago-woud, Buta, Lukolela, Beni, 

 Nganji-woud, Kalongi) east to Mount Elgon and to Kakamega and 

 Kapenguria, western Suk area, in western Kenya Colony. 



/. m. riggenbachi. ^^ Northern Cameroons (Tibati and Dodo, Ada- 

 maua) and the Shari basin to Darfur and the Bahr-el-Ghazal area in 

 the Sudan (Bongo, Shambi), south in the Belgian Congo to the north- 

 ern Uelle and Lado districts, and along the eastern edge of the Ituri 

 forest south to the base of Ruwenzori (Aba, Ukondju (north of Lake 

 Edward), Mahagi Port, Ischwa, Meberg, Tobbo, Karevia, Butahu 

 valley, Beni). It is not yet clear just where, in the Shari area, this 

 race meets /. m. alexanderi, or where, in the Sudan, it merges with 

 I. m. diadematus. 



I. m. diadematus: *** Southeastern Sudan (Sennar, Mongalla, and 

 Upper Nile Provinces; Roseu-es, Kenisia, Shamba, near Lake No, 

 Dinder River, Torit, Kamisa) to Ethiopia (El Dire, Tertale, Yavello , 

 near Arero, Gelongol, Darror River, Djamdjam, Galana River, Daroli 

 River, Gerwidja) and Eritrea (Assaorta, Anseba, Debrimela, Miniferi, 

 Waliko (Bogosland)) to British Somaliland, and northern Italian 

 Somaliland (Waghar, Wagga Mountain). 



/, m. minor: Northern Angola (Quibula, near BengueUa, south to 

 Gambos where one specimen may be intermediate towards /. m. 

 damarensis), Belgian Congo (south of the great forest — Manyema, 

 Kabubu River near Elisabethville, Katanga, and Moba and Lake 

 Suse in Marungu; and east of the forest north to Kabalo, Kasaji on 

 the Lualaba, and to the Luvua River at the eastern base of the 

 Ruwenzori Mountains), Uganda (Toro, Kampala, Kitgum, etc.), 

 Kenya Colony (throughout), southern Ethiopia (Gato River near 



^' Indicator conirostris pallidas Marchant, Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club, vol. 70, p. 

 25, 1950. (Umuagwu, Owerri Division, Southern Nigeria, twelve miles south- 

 west of Owerri on the road to Port Harcourt, lat. 5°20' N., long. 6°55' E.) 



38 Melignothes conirostris Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 8, p. 

 156, 1856. (Moonda River, Gaboon.) 



30 Indicator minor riggenbachi ZedUtz, Journ. Ornith., vol. 63, p. 12, 1915. 

 (Tibati, Adamawa highlands.) 



^f hidicator diadematus Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere . . . , p. 61, 1837. (For- 

 ested parts of Ethiopia.) 

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