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Range. — Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Natal, Transvaal, 

 Mashonaland, Portuguese East Africa, Zambesi river district, 

 S. Rhodesia, Damaraland, Benguella in Angola, Nvasaland. 



2. — Dendropicos fuscescens massaicus. 

 Cf. Ihis, 1915, pp. 436 and 458. 



Range. — Kenva Colony, Tanganvika Territorv, Manda Island. 



3. — Drndropicos fuscescens hemprichii. 

 Cf. Ibis, 191 5, p. 459. 



Range. — Abyssinia, Somaliland. 



4. — Dexdropicos fuscescens i.oandae. 



Dendropicos lafresnaxi loandaeQ. Grant, Bull. B.O.C., XXXV, 

 1915, p. loi : Loanda. 



Range. — N. Angola. 



Note. — Claude Grant included this as a race oi lafresnayihwl 

 I consider it is best allied with the fuscescens group. It is, in the 

 first place, a bird with a perfectlv distinctly barred upper-surface : 

 in fact, it is difficult to separate certain spécimens from tvpical 

 fuscescens fuscescens (cardinalis auctorum). Secondlv , it often 

 happens that Angolan birds are more nearlv allied to the Omis of 

 East Africa than to West African forms inhabiting Upper and 

 Lower Guinea, to which geographical area the greener, more- 

 uniform-backed lafies)iayigxowç is chieflv confined. 



If the fuscescens group and the iafresjtayi group are kept sepa- 

 rate it seems to me that the Loanda bird should be made a race of 

 the former rather than of the latter. 



