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d. S ad. West of Mt. Leganislio, 5850 ft. Oct. 29. 



€. S ad. Narossura Eiver, 5000 ft. Nov. 18. 



/. ? ad. Southern Guaso Nyiro, 2900 £t. Nov. 22. 



g. ? ?ad. Turkwel River, 1900 ft. Jan. 14. 



Total length in flesh : ^ 4|-4^ inches ; ? 4^-4| inches. 

 Wing: ($ 57 ram.; ? 58-51 ram. 



All these speciraens are in good dress and show little 

 signs of wear. 



[Irides brown ; bill black ; legs and toes black, greenish 

 black, or dark plumbeous. Quite common.] 



The races and nomenclature of these Barbets appear to be 

 as follows : — 



POGONIULUS PUSILLUS PUSILLUS. 



Biicco pusillus Dumont, Diet. Sc. Nat. vol. iv. 1806, p. 50 : 

 Sandag = Sunday River, Cape Colony ; founded on Levail- 

 lant, Hist. Nat. Ois. Parad. et Barbus, vol. ii. 1806, p. 73, 

 pi. 32 ; as are also Bucco rubrifrons Vieill. Nouv. Diet. 

 d'Hist. Nat. vol. iv. 1816, p. 497, and Bucco harbatula 

 Temm. PL Col. vol. iii. 1831, sp. 18 k 19. 



Bucco nanus Vig. (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 93 : Algoa 

 IJay) and Bucco chrysoptera Swains. (Anim.in IMenag. 1838, 

 p. 322 : South Africa, ex Burchell) are also synonyms. 



A large race. Wing 60 mm. and over. Streaks on back 

 of head yellow ; below pale olive-green ; throat clearer 

 green . 



Range. Eastern Cape Colony, Natal, and Zululand. 



POGONIULUS PUSILLUS UROPYGIALIS. 



Barbatula uropygialis Heugl. Journ. fiir Orn. 1862, p. 37: 

 Ain Saba, Eritrea. 



A smaller race. Wing under 60 and more than 55 mm. 

 Streaks on back of head whitish ; below similar to P. p. 

 pusillus, but paler. 



Range. Somaliland, Abyssinia, and Eritrea. 



Shelley in the Catalogue of Birds in the British Museum, 

 vol. xix. 1891, p. 41, says that this bird has '^ patch on 

 rump fiery red," which is also quoted by Reichw. Vog. 

 Afr. vol. ii. 1902, p. 152; whereas Heuglin in his original 



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