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Forehead-patch similar in colour to P. c. extoni, but 

 perhaps on the average rather larger ; rest of upper parts 

 similar ; below, throat deeper whitish green, breast and 

 abdomen as iu P. c. extorii, but distinctly washed with 

 yellow, much warmer and richer in tone on comparison, 

 but not in any way approaching the underparts of P. c. 

 centralis. 



Type in the British Museum : ^ ad. Chambezi Valley, 

 north-eastern Rhodesia, 6. v. 08. S. A. Neave coll. Wing 

 61, culmen 13, tail 33, tarsus 14 mm. 



Wing-measurements give the following result : Nyasaland 

 (five) 63-60; N.E. Rhodesia and eastern Belgian Congo 

 (five) 64-59; west of Lake Tanganyika (one) 60; northern 

 Angola (Melange) (one) 63 mm. 



Range. Northern British Nyasaland, west to North-east 

 Rhodesia, eastern Belgian Congo, and northern Angola, 

 north to west of Lake Tanganyika. 



POGONIULUS SCHOANUS. 



Barbatula schoana Neum, Journ. fiir Orn. 1904, p. 391 : 

 Dodgit, Province of Metscha, Abyssinia, 



Forehead-patch orange-red; streaks of mantle and wings 

 much more golden yellow ; rump and underparts as in P. c. 

 centralis. 



Wing-measurement gives the following result : Dodgit 

 (two) 61 & 59-5 mm. 



Range. Central Abyssinia. 



As the type localities of this race and P. c. xanthostictns 

 almost coincide and the present evidence points to the 

 probability of their occurring together, they cannot be 

 placed as subspecies of each other. As P. schoanus differs in 

 many ways more markedly from the typical forms than does. 

 P. c. xanthostictus, I have upheld it as a distinct species. 



199. Viridibucco simplex leucomystax. Little Green 

 Barbet. 



Barbatula leucomystax Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 310 : Sotik, 

 British East Africa. 



fl. ? ? ad. Hills south of Narossura, 7200 ft. Nov. 4. 



Total length in flesh: 3| inches. Wing : 54 mm. 



