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



near water in the Nakwai Hills, wliere its loud cries 

 attracted my attention. In the Pader District it was much 

 more plentiful.] 



The range of tliis race appears to be from Abyssinai, to 

 British East Africa, Uganda, and the Bahr-el-Ghazal. 

 The typical form of the subspecies is : — 



Chizaerhis africana africana. 



Phasianus africana Lath. Index Orn. vol. ii. 1790, p. 631 : 

 Africa = Senegal, of. Levaill. Hist. Nat. Prom. 1806, p. 37, 

 pi. 20. 



This form ranges from Senegal and Gambia, through 

 Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast Colony, and Nigeria to the 

 Shari River, French Congo. 



Latham says in the Syn. of Birds, Suppl. vol. i. 1787, 

 p. 210, that his specimen was in the British Museum, but 

 apparently it no longer exists in that collection. Levaillant 

 was the first to give a particular type locality for this race, 

 and this locality I suj)port. 



179. Corythaixoides leucogaster. White-bellied Plantain- 

 eater. 



Chisdrhis leucogaster- Riipp. Mus. Seiick. iii. 1842, p. 127 : 

 Southern Abyssinia. 



a. S ad. S. Guaso Nyiro, 2950 ft. Nov. 23. 



b. (J ad. Mt. Maroto, Maroto Stream. Jan. 26. 

 Total length in flesh : 20^ & 19 inches. Wing : 223 & 



213 mm. 



These two specimens are fully adult and are showing 

 signs of fading and wear. They have black bills ; some in 

 the British Museum collection have greenish bills, these 

 being taken in February, March, April, June, and October ; 

 the black-billed birds being dated January, February, June, 

 October, and November. One young bird, dated July, has 

 a black bill. 



Three of the four sexed green-billed birds are females, 

 which seems to point to this being the character of the hen 

 bird, the one marked a male probably being wrongly sexed. 



