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An adult female , 29 January, Quipanhime. 

 Iris red, bill and feet black. 



57. Dendropicus cardinalis (Gm.). 



Dendropicus cardinalis, Sharpe, Birds S. Afr. p. 290. 

 Dendrobates cardinalis, Boc. Oru. d'Ang. p, 76. 



An adult male and two females, Cunene, Muliino (Huilla) 

 and Kasiuga River. 



Iris red , bill grayish , feet olive. 



58. Psittacus m e y e r i (Rüpp.). 



Psittacus meyeri, Sharpe, Birds S. Afr. p. 195. 

 Pionias meyeri, Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 68. 



Three males and one female , Quipanhime and Kasinga 

 River. 



Iris brown, bill and feet black. 



59. T u r du s lit s it sir u p a, Smith. 

 Conf. Seebohm, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. V. p. 182 (1881). 



Four male specimens, collected 9 January on the Kakelle 

 River. Three of the specimens are strongly, the fourth but 

 faintly washed on front, fore-part of the crown, the sides 

 of chin , abdomen , under tail-coverts and especially the 

 tibiae with rich salmon-red, of which in two specimens 

 a slight hue is spread over the whole lower surface. This 

 peculiar salmon tinge may not be identified with the 

 vinaceous buif of the lower surface of the north eastern spe- 

 cies T. simensis , but rather compared with that of our Mer- 

 ganser, and finding no trace of it in our Museum specimens 

 I suppose that it disappears under the influence of light. 



Iris brown, bill brown, the lower mandible yellowish 

 with the tip brown , feet horny yellow. 



The nearly allied north eastern form , T. simensis Rüpp., 

 as von Heuglin already observed , is easily distinguished 

 by the much" smaller and more circular dark spots on the 

 sides of the abdomen , while these spots are larger and more 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. X. 



