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slopes of Mount Kenya), and northeastern Tanganyika Territory (the 

 Kilimanjaro region (Moshi) and the Usambara Mountains). 



Prodotiscus insignis zambesiae Shelley: ^* Central southern Belgian 

 Congo, from Tembwe on Lake Tanganyika and the Upper Katanga 

 (Elisabeth ville, and Kasaji on the Lualaba) south to southern Angola 

 (Quipungo, Quicolungo,^^ Cabega de Ladroes), across Northern 

 Rhodesia (Lunge, near Kasempa, Luanshya, Kabompe, Mwinilunga, 

 Balovale) to Nyasaland (Nehisi Mountain, Kota-kota District, 

 Mlanji, Karonga District, Mombera District, Chinteche — 1,700- 

 5,000 feet), Mozambique (Chole and Masuku Mountains, Mzimba, 

 Unangu) and Southern Rhodesia (Gatooma, Bindura District, Mak- 

 wiro, and near Salisbury). 



These races differ from each other in the following particulars. 

 The entire upperparts are strongly washed with golden, brightest on 

 the rump, and the underparts are lighter brown, faintly tinged with 

 olive in Jlavodorsalis ; the nominate race has the crown dusky brown 

 tinged with olive, the rest of the upperparts olive brown, and the 

 entire underparts ashy brown with an olive tinge on the breast and 

 sides; the subspecies ellenbecki resembles insignis but has the back 

 and the upper wing-coverts olive gray, the forehead, neck, and breast 

 brownish gray, the under tail-coverts white, while the southern race 

 zambesiae differs from insignis in having the sides of the face and 

 throat pale gray, and the whole of the abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 white instead of dingy olive brown. 



Breeding Range and Season 



The data indicative of breeding dates and localities known to me 

 are as follows: 



Gold Coast: Goaso, Ashanti, December 28, female with a soft 

 shelled egg in oviduct, "just starting to breed"; January 1, a male 

 taken, showed testes beginning to enlarge. {Suhs])ecies Jlavodorsalis.) 



Cameroons: Esamesa, River Ja, January 29, juvenal female, prob- 

 ably still attended by its foster parents; Kumba, November 7, adult 

 female with two large yolking ovarian eggs. (Subspecies insignis.) 



Ethiopia: Daroli, near Ginh, Arussi-Gallaland, February 17, 

 female in breeding condition. (Subspecies ellenbecki.) 



Kenya Colony: Nyeri, May 2, female with well developed ova; 

 Limuru, December 31, young fledgling fed by Zosterops sp., Ngong, 

 June and July, nestlings in nests of Zosterops and Platysteira; Mau, 



^< Prodotiscus zambesiae Shelly, Ibis, ser. 6, vol. 6, p. 8, 1894. (Zomba, Nyasa- 

 land.) 



'5 Subspecies uncertain; only specimen from northern Angola is immature. 



