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to diflPer from the full adult only in having the primary 

 quills tipped with whitish. 



[hides brown ; bill blackish horn, base of lower mandible 

 whitish ; legs and toes plumbeous.] 



The small number of examples of this Woodpecker in the 

 British Museum collection from British East Africa and. 

 Uganda does not allow me to speak with confidence as to the 

 geographical value and range of this subspecies; but I append 

 the wing-measurements of the series before me, both of this 

 race and the true Picus obsuletus Wagl. (Isis, 1829, p. 510 : 

 Senegambia, wing given as 2| (German inches) = 74 mm.), 

 viz. : — Gambia, ^ (two) 81-80, $ 82 : Portuguese Guinea 

 to Welle River, $ (ten) 82-78, ? (ten) 82-75 ; Sudan, 

 J (three) 81-77, ? (three) 82-77 ; Uganda, ? 81 ; British 

 East Africa, P'ort Hall, ^ 86, Nairobi, S 9f mm. 



It will thus be seen that the only specimen that actually 

 reaches the wing-measurement given by Hartert (90 mm.) 

 is the one from Nairobi, and I therefore may be wrong in 

 placing the Kamchuru young bird under this race, though 

 the mantle is distinctly darker than west coast birds, and 

 agrees in this respect with the Nairobi specimen. 



Two other forms have been described — Jynxiijncus obsoletus 

 nigricans Neum. ( Journ. fur Orn. 1904, p. 402 : Uma Fluss, 

 Abyssinia, wing given as 82) and Jynyipicus ohsoletus heugliui 

 Neum. (op. cit. : Eritrea, wing given as 89-85 mm.) ; but the 

 status of the four supposed races cannot be decided, with the 

 material before me. 



209. Mesopicus goertae centralis. East African Grey 

 Woodpecker. 



Mesopicus goertae centralis Reichw. Orn. Monatsb. 1900, 

 p. 59 : Ndussuma, west of Lake Albert. 



a. ? ad. 70 miles N.W. of Baringo, 3100 ft. Jan. 3. 



b. ? ad. Turkwel River, 2100 ft. Jan. 11. 



Total length in flesh : 8 & 7f inches. Wing : 106 mm. 

 Both these specimens are rather worn, and the one from 

 the Turkwel River is much darker on the mantle than the 



