obtained in British East Africa. 39 



138. DllYOSCOPUS NYANZ.^. 



Dryoscopus, sp. incogii., Sliarpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 598. 



Dryoscopus malzacii nyansa O. Neumann, J. f. O. 1899, 

 p. 412; op. cit. 1900, p. 272. 



Dryoscopus gambensis (nee Licht.) ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1892, 

 p. 37. 



a. ($ ad. Ntebi, May 4, 1895. 



No. 40. ? ad. Ntebi, Oct. 1, 1895. 



b. ^ ad. Busoga, Nov. 15, 1894.. Iris orange; bill 

 black; feet horn-blue. 



No. 192. ? juv. Ravine, July 23, 1896. 

 Ravine, July 25, 1896. 

 Ravine, July 18, 1897. 

 Ravine, July 18, 1897. Bill black ; 

 lower mandible horn-blue; feet slate-colour; iris crimson- 

 orange. 



No. 695. c? ad. Ravine, July 25, 1897. Feet greenish 

 slate. 



No. 699. ? ad. Ravine, July 27, 1897. 



No. 1240. ? ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, June 26, 1898. Iris 

 bright orange, fading into yellow round the pupil. Scarce. 



No. 1262. S ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, July 3, 1898. 

 Stomach contained beetles, for which the bird hunts in the 

 thick foliage of trees. 



[As Mr. Oscar Neumann points out, while the males of 

 D. gambensis can scarcely be distinguished in the various 

 parts of Africa in which they occur, there are very decided 

 differences in the female birds. Thus the forms must be 

 determined on the females alone, and in this connection we 

 find that they can be separated into two sections distinguished 

 by the colour of the head — D. gambensis and D. congicus 

 having a grey head and a grey or light brown back, while 

 D. malzacii, D. nyanza, and D. eryfhrea all have brown backs 

 and blackish-brown heads very slightly darker than the 

 mantle; the three last-named species also have decidedly 

 smaller bills. The bird which I call D. congicus is from 

 Ste. Antoine and Conde on the Lower Congo (specimen m of 

 Gadow^s Cat. B. viii. p. 147). The Conde specimen is in 



