obtained in British East Africa. 637 



Bill and bare skin of eye yellow ; feet slate-coloured ; iris 

 crimson. 



No. 907. ? ad. Ravine, 7500 feet, March 7, 1898. 



No. 1190. S ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, June 4, 1898. Bill 

 and bare skin of face yellow : feet slaty black, edge of scales 

 dull light green ; iris brown. Breeding. I found a nest 

 containing four young in an old Woodpecker's hole about 

 forty feet from the ground. The tree was partly dead, and 

 on the edge of a thick belt of forest. There were five or six 

 other holes in the dead portion of the tree-trunk. 



341. Dendromus nubicus. 



Camputhera nnbica (Gm.) ; Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. INIus. 

 xviii. p. 93 (1890); Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 307 (Save, 

 Mt. Elgon) ; Reichen. Vog. deutsch. Ost-Afr. p. 121 (1894). 



Dendromus nubicus Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 202 (Nguru- 

 man; Ngaruka; Kwa Kitoto). 



No. 399. cJ ad. E. Kamassia, Sept. 30, 1896. Bill dusky 

 slate-coloured ; feet dark green ; iris crimson. 



No. 624. ? ad. Ravine, April 12, 1897. Scarce. 



[The variation in a series o{ Dendromus nubicus is simply 

 extraordinary, especially as regards the spotting and barring 

 of the back and under parts. 1 have come to the conclusion 

 that the barring of the tianks is more or less a sign of 

 immaturity. The birds from the White Nile (true D. nubicus) 

 differ slightly in the prominence of the spots of the under 

 surface and the clearness of the white spots on the crown in 

 the female, but I find that they can be matched by Abyssinian 

 birds. Of the former, called by Dr. Reichenow D. neumanni, 

 Mr. Jackson only got a single specimen, from Kamassia : 

 this is coarsely marked, and has a few black spots con- 

 tinued up to the chin. This specimen, identified by Mr. Oscar 

 Neumann as D. neumanni, can almost be matched by speci- 

 mens from Shoa and Southern Abyssinia, Arabsyio and Jifa 

 Medir in Somaliland. The Kamassia bird is the only one 

 which has the spots continued up to the chin, but the black 

 spots on the chest and the dark bars on the flanks are found 

 in all the specimens above mentioned. At the same time 



