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Cinnamopteryx tricolor interscapularis. 



Ploccns interscapularis, Reichenow, Orn. Munatsber., 189-^, 

 p. 29. — Tvpe localitv : Bundoko. 



This bird was originallv described from a speciinen obtained at 

 Bundoko, just North of the Ruwenzori ran,u;e. The British Muséum 

 Expédition to Ruwenzori next brought back a single maie example 

 iVom the Mpanga Forest (Uganda), which .M. Ogilvie-Gkant 

 described as Cinnainopteryx inpangae {Bull. B. O. /".,XXI, 1907, 

 p. 15), comparing his bii'd with C. tricoior und overlooking the fact 

 that it had alreadv been described. 

 Ç C. iiipans;ae must I regret to sav, become a svnonvm of 6'. iiiter- 

 scapu/aris and I consider that interscapularis can onlv be consi- ' 

 dered a subspecies of C. tricolor (Hartl). / 



Dr. Christv has now secured a single maie at Poko on the Uelle 

 River on tiie 30th July 1914. This spécimen is in the Tervueren 

 Muséum, Belgium ; additional spécimens of this rare weaver hâve 

 been obtained : a maie and female in the Mabira Forest Uganda 

 25-V-1909, bv Mr. Seïh-Smith; and a maie in the Kasai Forest- 

 Kampala, Uganda obtained on the 30th Aug. 191 1, bv S. A. Neave. 



Sir Frederick Jackson has a fine séries in his collection of 

 maies, females and young from the Mabira Forest and from the 

 Mpanga Forest and Kibiran in the Toro district. 



The female is very diflferentlv coloured from the maie and lacks 

 the chestnut of the breast and bellv. It is entirelv black on the 

 upper surface with the exception of the vellow band across the 

 upper mantle; the undersurface is dull blackish brown. 



Two voung maies in Sir Frédéric jackson's collection exhibit a 

 particularlv interesting phase. The head and nape are unexpectedly 

 light chestnut, the black teathers making their appearance hère and 

 there, the head of one spécimen in particular having a verv patchv 

 appearance. The vellow mantle-band is clearlv discernible and 

 thèse feathers are vellow in the middle graduallv merging into 

 chestnut and narrowlv tipped with black, but the vellow colour 

 prédominâtes. The rest of the back is black. The underparts are 

 blackish brown as in the adult exceiît the chin and throat the 



