400 Mr. C. H. B. Grant on a Collection of 



XXIII. — On a Collection of Birds from British East Africa 

 and Uganda, inesented to the British Museum by Capt. G. 

 P. Cosens. — Part III, Colii — Pici. By Claude H. B. 

 Grant, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. JVith Field Notes hy the 

 Collector, Willoughbv P. Lowe, M.B.O.U.* 



(Plate V. and Text-figure 6.) 



Introduction. 

 The third part of tliis paper deals with 41 species and 

 subspecies, making a total of 212 to the end of the Wood- 

 peckers. The new subspecies, all of which have recently 

 been described in the Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' 

 Club, are eleven in number, as follows : — 



Centropus grillii ivahlbergi, C. superciliosus loandce, C. s. 

 sokotrce, Indicator minor alexanderi, I. exilis leona, I. e. 

 ansorgei, Pogoniulus chrysoconus rhodesice, Dendropicos 

 fuscescens cosensi, D. lafresnayi loandce, Thripias naniaqims 

 intermedials, Jyn.v ruficollis cosensi. 



Systematic List. 

 171. Colius striatus aflSnis. East African Striated Coly. 

 Colius leucotis affiais Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 312 : Dar-es- 

 Salaam. 



a,b.^^ ad. Kikuyu. Sept. 21. 



c. (J ad. Annamuget, 3700 f t. Feb. 1. 



d. S ad. Gubba, Pader Dist., 3100 ft. Feb. 18. 



Total length in flesh: S 14.^, 12|, & 11 inc hes; 

 ? 14 inches. Wing: (? 101, 99, & 96 mm.; ^ 98 mm. 



The September female is in new dress and the male is 

 completing the moult. Both the February specimens are 

 showing signs of wear. 



[Irides brown, the male from Gubba is marked as having 

 yellow irides ; bill bluish or bluish black, lower mandible 

 white or bluish pink; legs and toes red. Common.] 



In naming these specimens I have had to examine all the 



* For Part I., with map of route, see pp. 1-76, Part 11. pp. 23u-316. 



