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No. 304. $ ad. Bunkeya R., Aug. 1, 1907. 



Bill and feet red ; iris dark brown ; bare parts red. 



No. 305. ? juv. Bunkeya R., Aug. 1, 1907. 



Bill above brownish horn-coloured, below whitish horn- 

 coloured ; feet red ; iris dark olive-brown. 



This is the only species of Pternistes met with west of the 

 Mchinga Escarpment. It there replaces the two foregoing. 



Fam. NuMiDiDiE. 



8. NUMIDA M1TRATA. 



Numida mitrata Pall. ; Neave, loc. cit. p. 5. 

 Confined to the Luangwa Valley, and does not surmount 

 the Mchinga Escarpment. 



9. Numida marungensis. 



Numida marungensis Schal. ; Neave, loc. cit. p. 6. 



No. 80. S • Dikulwe R., 4000 ft., March 13, 1907. 



Bill horn-coloured, red at base; feet dusky chocolate; 

 iris brown. 



No. 306. (J . Bunkeya R., 3000 ft., Aug. 2, 1907. 



Bill horn-coloured, red at base ; feet dark chocolate ; iris 

 dark brown. 



No. 673. $ . Lofu R., L. Tanganyika, 3000 ft., Aug. 17, 

 1908. 



Bill pale whitish horn-coloured, tinted red at base ; feet 

 very dark chocolate-brown ; iris dark hazel. 



The other bare parts of this individual, a very old male, 

 were : cere and ridge above the eye red ; casque orange, 

 becoming horn-coloured at base ; chin, cheeks, and around 

 eye and ear pale greenish blue ; throat cobalt-blue ; nape 

 and back of neck black, with a few spots of greenish blue at 

 the sides ; lappets cobalt-blue tipped with red. 



This specimen, which was exceptionally large, measured in 

 the flesh : length 25*5 inches; wing 12; tail 6 - 75; tarsus 3. 



10. GUTTERA EDOUARDI. 



Guttera eduuardi (Hartl.); Neave, loc. cit. p. 6. 

 This bird was confined to the low ground of the Zambezi 

 basin. 



