Birds from British East Africa and Uganda. 281 



XJpupa capensis Swainson, Birds W. Africa, vol. ii. 1837, 

 p. 115. This name is preoccupied by Upupa capensis 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat, 1788, p. 466, which is in its turn 

 a pure synonym o£ Fregilupus varius Bodd. 



Thus I do not recognise more than one race of U. africana 

 •which ranges from the Cape to Angola on the west and 

 to Uganda on the east. 



Tlie series in the National Collection shows that this 

 Hoopoe is found in south Africa during tlie months of 

 Feb., May, June, July, Aug., Oct., Nov., and Dec. (Beira), 

 in Nyasaland in May and Sept., in cast Africa in Jan., 

 Feb., ]\Iay, July, and Nov., and in Damaraland in jMarch 

 and June; so that apparently no regular migration takes 

 place, but only local outs dependent probably on the rains 

 or some other unknown reason, cf. Hiis, 1911, p. 695. 



In the Orn. jMonatsb. 1913, p. 8, Prof. Reichenow has 

 described a new Hoopoe under the name of Upupa waibeli : 

 Bamugu, Kamerun, and says that in the crest and under- 

 parts it is similar to U. africana, but that the primaries 

 are white-banded. I have not seen any specimens from 

 Kamerun, nor from the Congo, which is, strictly speaking, 

 the type locality of U. africana^ and until specin ens come 

 from the Congo, if it occurs there, the correct nomenclature 

 of this group cannot be fixed. 



149. Irrisor erythrorhynchus marwitzi. Marwitz's Wood- 

 Hoopoe. 



Irrisor erythrurhynchos marwitzi Reich w. Orn. IMonatsb. 

 1906, p. 171 : Makalama, on the Wemberesteppe, German 

 East Africa. 



a. S ^^' Amala River, 5400 ft. Oct. 17. 



b. ? ad. Turkwel River, 2000 ft. Jan. 11. 



Total length in flesh : ^ 16} inches; ? 15^ inches. 



Wing: cJ 157 mm. ; ? 139 mm.; culmen : ^ 49 mm. 

 ? 46 mm. 



[Irides brown; bill, legs and toes red. Common, and 

 found in small flocks, and is very noisy.] 



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