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91 & 88, ? (one) 86 ; Pangani River, S (two) 90 & 87 ; 

 Dar-es-Salaara, ^ (one) 90; llovuma River, ^ (one) 90; 

 Sena, (^ (one) 93 mm. 



Range. Island of Zanzibar and mainland immediately 

 adjacent (Pangani River and Dar-es-Salaam), ranging south 

 to the Rovuraa and Zambesi Rivers (Sena). 



This race cannot be confounded with D. f. fuscescens, and 

 the records of it occurring in South Afiica, except on the 

 lower Zambesi River, are quite erroneous, and have un- 

 doubtedly arisen through not comparing specimens from 

 the actual type locality. 



Dendropicos lafresnayi lafresnayi. 



Dendropicus lafresnayi Malh. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1849, 

 p. 533: Africa = Gaboon, cf. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1855, 

 p. 872. Wing given as 85 mm. 



Of this, Dendropicos sharpii Oust. (N. Arch. Mus. (2) vol. ii. 

 1879, p. 62 : Doume, Ogooue, wing given as 85 mm.) ; 

 Dendropicus tropicalis Rcichw. (Journ. fiir Orn. 1887, p. 302 : 

 Leopoldville, wing given as 79 mm.) ; and Dendropicus 

 cameranensis Sharpe (Ibis, 1907, p. 443: River Ja, Cameroon), 

 must for the present become synonyms. 



Size small ; above olive-green, either with the barring on 

 the mantle absent or only very indistinct and submerged, 

 rump without or only slightly tinged with red; below 

 strongly tinged with yellow, with the streaks clear and dark ; 

 black wing-bars below broader. 



Wing-measurements are as follows : — Cameroon, ^ 

 (one) 82 (the $ type of D. camerunensis is in moult, and 

 therefore cannot be measured), ? (three) 80-75 ; nr. Congo 

 mouth, (J (five) 84-79, ? (five) 83-75 ; River Ubanghi, ? 

 (one) 81 mm. 



Range. Congo mouth to Cameroon, eastward to the 

 Ubanghi River. 



The five specimens before me from the River Ja and 

 Efulen in Cameroon, including the type of D. camerun- 

 ensis, are certainly darker than the Congo birds, and 

 should perhaps be kept separate ; but until a series is 



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