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P. i. zambesiae: Still longer winged, slightly lighter in color through- 

 out than the nominate race, the crown gray with little or no greenish 

 wash, the underparts slightly paler than in P. i. ellenbecki. Measure- 

 ments in millimeters: male: wing 74, tail 48, culmen from base 8.2, 

 tarsus 11; female: wing 73, tail 49, culmen from base 8.3, tarsus 11. 



Sharp-Billed Honey-Guide 



Prodotiscus regulus Sundevall '^ 

 Figures 1, 2,h, S,h; Plates 20, 23 



Distribution 



The sharp-billed honey -guide is found in the fairly dense to faiily 

 open bushveld and even in the semiarid areas, and, in South Africa, 

 has adapted itself to the wattle plantations as well. It is chiefly a 

 bird of the eastern parts of Africa from southern Ethiopia and Sennar 

 south to the eastern Cape Province, but also occurs westward to 

 Bosum (or Bozoum) in French Equatorial Africa, the Banso highlands 

 of British Cameroons (only one record from the former area and but 

 three from Cam.eroons), and in Angola. In the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 

 it appears to have been recorded only from the Blue Nile (Geraf, 

 Famaka, and near Roseires, in Sennar) ; in Ethiopia it has been 

 collected at Unji on Lake Zwai, on the Gato River near Gardulla, 

 at Yavello, Harar, and Ghinir on the Daroli River, In Kenya Colony 

 scattered locality records are more numerous — Campi-ya-bibi, Cliyulu 

 Hills, southern Guaso Nyiio, Nairobi, Thika, Mtito Andei, Sambm-u, 

 Naivasha, the Bura Hills, Teita, and the Lorogi Plateau; while in 

 Uganda it has been taken at Burumba in Ankole, but not elsewhere 

 to my knowledge. Tanganyikan records are available from Kiliman- 

 jaro, Mount Meru, Sumbawanga, Morogoro, and Apis Rock, and 

 south to Mbisi, near the southeastern part of Lake Tanganyika. 

 In the Belgian Congo the species is known as yet only from Tembwo 

 west of Lake Tanganyika, Boudewijnville, Kasaji, Dilolo, the Upemba 

 Park, and from Kabalo on the Lualaba River. Data from Mozam- 

 bique are almost nonexistent, although the bii-d must occur in many 

 areas there; I know of one example taken at Lorengo Marques now 

 in the museum in that city. More is known of its occurrence in 

 Nyasaland whence there are definite records from Bua River in the 

 Lilongwe District, Mpimbi, Dowa District, Mzimba highlands, near 

 Fort Johnston, Zomba, and near Liwonde. In Angola specimens have 



^8 Prodotiscus regulus Sundevall, Ofv. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Forh., vol. 7, p. 109, 

 1850. ("Caffraria inferiori et superiori," type from Mohapoani, Witfontein 

 Berge, western Transvaal.) 



