in Uganda and on the Upper Congo . 273 



as the birds from the Gessima River; but, as already 

 stated, the latter apparently resemble the typical example of 

 L. rhodoparia from Bogosland ! 



Twelve adult males from Nairobi, Nandi, Kakamega, 

 Entebbe, Toro, Ruwenzori, Lake Kivu, and the Mfumbiro 

 Volcanoes, shot between the months of April and January 

 and all in more or less fresh plumage, are typical examples 

 of Prof. Neumann^s L. hildehrandti (= Z*. Uganda Salvad.), 

 having the crown and nape olive-grey washed with rose-red *. 



Birds from Dar-es-Salaam, Mozambique, and Nyasaland 

 have been named L. rubricata hamatocephala by Prof. Neu- 

 mann, and certainly, as a whole, have the red wash on the 

 crown and nape rather more marked than is the case with 

 birds found further north ; but some individuals from Nyasa- 

 land are inseparable from British East-African specimens. I 

 therefore agree with Captain Shelley in regarding them all as 

 one species under the name of L. rhodoparia Heugl. 



[Since the above was written I have been able to examine 

 the type specimen of L. rhodoparia Heugl., and find that it 

 closely resembles the birds from the Gessima River mentioned 

 above. The differences in the colour of the upper parts are 

 probably seasonal, the birds being greyer when freshly 

 moulted and growing browner as the feathers become faded 

 and worn.] 



L. congica Sharpe, founded on what is probably a some- 

 what immature female example, is verg closely allied to 

 L. rhodoparia, but the head and mantle are greyer, and the 

 former has scarcely a trace of the pinkish wash which is 

 characteristic of all the female specimens of L. rhodoparia 

 in the British Museum, while the crimson of the rump and 

 upper tail-coverts is even brighter. 



Specimens in the Tring Museum from Ussure have been 

 identified by Prof. Neumann as L. congica, but they are, in 

 my opinion, referable to L. rhodoparia, and do not possess 

 the greyer crown and upper parts characteristic of the type 

 from Kasongo. I am, however, by no means sure that 



« Cf. Neumann, Bull. B. 0. C. xxi. p. 59 (1908). 



