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[Irides blue edged with red ; bill greenish horn or bluish 

 white, red at base ; legs and toes red. In the female the 

 bill is bluish white, basal half red.] 



I have compared all the series in the Museum Collection, 

 and cannot see any difference between Coliimba calva Temm. 

 & Knip (Pig. i. 1811, p. 35, pi. vii. : coasts of Loango and 

 Angola) and V. nudirostris Swainson (' Birds of Africa,' 

 vol. ii. 1837, p. 205 : Senegal, cf. p. 203), which therefore 

 becomes a synonym. 



Vinago calva sharpei Reichenow (Orn. Monatsb. 1902, 

 p. 45 : Oberguinea) is a pure synonym of V. nudirostris 

 Swainson. 



There is certainly some variation between the east and 

 west coast birds, the eastern being perhaps rather brighter 

 and rather larger than the west coast l)irds, and I have 

 therefore maintained Dubois' " salvadoi'ii." Birds from both 

 coasts almost lack the grey nuchal band, the conspicuousness 

 or otherwise of which is probably due to age. 



The range of the two races 1 recognise appears to be as 

 follows : — 



Vinago calva calva Temm. 



Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Gold Coast 

 Colony, Nigeria, Cameroons south to Angola east to Welle 

 River and Upper Congo, Islands of Principe and Fernando 

 Po, cf. Bannerraan, Ibis, 1914, p. 629. 



Vinago calva salvadorii Dubois. 



German East Africa, British East Africa, Uganda, across 

 Ruwenzori and the Semliki Valley into eastern Belgian 

 Congo. 



25. Columba guinea longipennis. East African Speckled 

 Pigeon. 



Columba guinea longipennis Reichw. Vog. Afr. i. 1901, 

 p. 402 : Ugogo, East Africa. 



a. S ad. 7 miles N.W. of Baringo, 3800 ft. Dec. 29. 



b. S ad. Mt. Maroto, Maroto Stream, 3700 ft. Jan. 24. 

 Both are in good clean phimage. 



Total length in flesh : 14 & 1 U inches. Wing : 224 & 

 231 mm. 



