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Range. — Southern Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, Cameroon, 

 Gaboon, N. Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa. 



Distiiiguis/itng cliaracters. — The light blue of the back is 

 bright cobalt-blue, whereas in the tvpical species the blue back is 

 ot a niuch deeper shade. 



Ispidina picta picta. 



Todiis pictus BoDDAERT, Tabl. PI. Enluni., 1783, p. 49. — Tvpe 

 locality : « Juida >», i. e. St. Louis, Sénégal, ex Buffon, 

 Oiseaux, \\\, 1780, p. 229. 



Mr. LowE shot an example of the Pigmv Kingfisher at Iju and 

 Mr. Kemp two at Agoulerie. Previously it had been obtained in 

 Southern Nigeria bv Robin at Abeokuta, bv Lowell at the Anam- 

 bra Creek and bv Mann at Lagos. 



In Northern Nigeria Boyd Alexander obtained it at Mutwe, 

 at Keffi and near Abeshi. while there is also a spécimen from Jebba 

 on the Niger. 



There are two races of this Kingfisher in Africa, i. e. 



1. — Ispidina picta picta. 

 Cf. supra. 



Range. — Northern and Central Africa extending south on the 

 west coast to Angola, on the east coast to Kenya Colony. 



Represented in the British Muséum from Sénégal, Portuguese 

 Guinea, Sierra Leone, Libéria, Gold Coast, N. and S. Nigeria, 

 French Equatorial Africa, N. Belgian Congo, Cameroon, Gaboon, 

 Northern Angola south to the Coanza river. In East Africa it 

 occurs in the Sudan, Abyssinia, Uganda and Kenya Colony. 



2. — Ispidina picta natalensis. 



Alcedo natalensis A. Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Journ., I. ser,, n" V, 

 1831, p. 14 : Natal. 



Range. — Nvasaland, Tanganyika Territorv, Rhodesia, Natal, 

 Portuguese East Africa, Transvaal. 



