— 102 — 



the Nov. ZooL, XV, 1908, p. 387 had substituted tlie Gold Coast 

 for the type localitv oï A. [^nllayiiis I.inn., as the species does not 

 occur in Niibia at ail. 



Sci.ATKR and Pkaei) (1. c.) « kept up » Neumann's naine for the 

 bird found in Uganda and Kenva Colonv and assign their spécimens 

 froMi the Bahr el-Ghazal to this Eastern race. Neumann, on the 

 otiier hand. believed (1. c.) that upper Hahr-el-Ghazal spécimens 

 should be uttributed to the tvpical species. Intergrading spécimens 

 between the two races will probablv be fonnd in this district and 

 in the Eastern Belgian Congo, 



Range. — In the British Muséum \ve hâve spécimens of A^^a- 

 poriiis piillariiis piilLxrius from : The Gold Coast, Cape Coast, 

 Northern and Southern Nigeria, Cameroon, North Angola, 

 vSt. Thomas' Island (Gulf of Guinea), French Equatorial Africa 

 (Ubanghi and Shari rivers); North Belgian Congo (Uelle and 

 Kibali rivers) eastwards to Poko and Tingasi. 



Reichenow adds several localities from which it is not repre 

 sented in the National collection, notably Princes' Island, Fernando 

 Po and Gaboon as far south as Loango. 



The East African race is : 



AgAPOKNIS PL'I.I.AKirS rCANDAE. 



Agapornis pullariiis ugixndac Nei'man'K, Nov. Zool., XV, 1908, 

 p. 388. Entebbe. 



We hâve spécimens of this race from : Uganda, Kenya Colony 

 and Bahr-el-Ghazal. 



It is apparent that in the Eastern Belgian Congo and probablv 

 in the Bahr-el-Ghazal countrv somewhat intermediate forms exist, 

 but on the whole the spécimens I hâve examined from the former 

 localitv, as far east as Tingasi more nearlv approach A. p. pulla- 

 rins than the Uganda race, the range of mountains on the Uganda- 

 Belgian boundarv apparentlv acting as a fairlv effective barrier.- 



Of the three spécimens shot bv Mr. Lowi' two were ascertained 

 bv disection to be maies, while of the sex ot the other he was 



