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Both individuals are in moult and have not yet assumed 

 the full dress and one of them has the brown colour of the 

 breast extending far down on the belly, so that this brown patch 

 forms 36 cm. wide band on the lower surface while that of the 

 other is 23 cm. wide. One of them has two teeth on either side 

 of the bill, while the other has two on the left side, and one 

 not very distinct, on the right. 



Wing 89,90 mm.; tarsus 22 mm. 



Irides brownish red, bill greyish green, legs dark lead-grey. 



Lybius leucocephalus usukumae Neum. — Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 



XXI, p. 46. 



Chongirio . . . ki-kavirondo. 

 3 56 ad. 21. 8., 22. 8.; 2 SQ ad. 21. 8.; Kendu. 



This Barbet was not uncommon in Kendu on the Gulf of 

 Kavirondo, Victoria Nyanza. But on an open field close to the 

 native village there stood a tall expansive, dense tree in which 

 4 or 5 of these birds regularly took their meal of fruits in the 

 mornings. The birds were slow and not very shy, and when 

 one of them was shot the other birds did not fly away but con- 

 tinued their meal undisturbed. Their cry is a shrill screech which 

 can be heard at a long distance. 



Wing, tarsus, culmen, tail, 



92—98 mm. 25—26 mm. 27—29 mm. 60—63 mm. 



Two of the specimens have two teeth on the left side of 

 the bill, but only one on the right side. The other three have 

 two teeth on either side, the front one being the more powerful. 



The females are somewhat lighter on the back than the 

 males, but in other respects there is no differences between the 

 sexes. 



Irides dark brown; bill and legs black. 



Lyhius senex (Rchw.). — Rchw. II. p. 123. 

 1 (5 ad. 14. 4.; 1 6 juv. 19. 9. Kiambu. I 



Both of these birds where shot in the Kiambu forests in 

 the vicinity of Nairobi. I have never seen this species in the 

 interior of the forests but always on the outskirts, where they 

 are bounded by the open field. On one occasion when I observed 

 the bird, it frequented the small, scraggy trees growing on the 

 banks of a little brook running past a large garden. But on 

 another occasion it was flying about in a field of maize. 

 Wing, tarsus, culmen, tail, 

 96 mm. 26 mm. 27 mm. 57 mm. cf ad. 

 95 mm. 24 mm. 27 mm. 52 mm. cT juv. 

 The young bird has only one tooth on either side of the 

 bill, but the adult has — like L. leuc. usuJc. — two. Further, 



