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call amongst the trees, but none, however, appear to remain." 

 Mr. Guy Marshall writes from the same country : " Common 

 during the winter mouths, but with the exception of a few 

 pairs it evidently goes south to breed, shortl}' after the arrival 

 of 0. notatus. It is a much less wary bird than the latter." 

 Mr. Boyd Alexander also believed it to be migratory at the 

 Zambesi, but he only obtained a single specimen in July. 



In the Nyasa district it is apparently a common resident, 

 and according to General Manning is known to the natives 

 of Angoniland as the " Lisondambamala." Dr. Stuhlmann 

 records its Usegua name as " Kubuiru." Bohn mentions it 

 as abundant but shy in the Marungu country on Lake Tan- 

 ganyika, and Fisher observed that it was a plentiful species in 

 Mangrove woods of East Africa, and that its note resembles 

 that of our Golden Oriole. Dr. Hinde procured specimens at 

 Ngong and along the Athi Eiver, and writes : " When the 

 wild figs are ripe, dozens of these birds may be seen in a 

 single tree, consorting with Lamprocolius chalybeus and 

 Oriolus galhula.'' 



The type of 0. roletti was obtained by Brun Eollett in 

 the Upper White Nile in about 7° N. lat. According to 

 Heuglin it ranges northward to 8° N. lat., and the vague 

 locality " Nubia " on a specimen in the Leyden Museum, we 

 cannot accept as evidence of its occurring further north. 



The type of 0. j^ercivali was obtained by Mr. A. Blayney 

 Percival, in the Kikuyu Forest, March 29, 1902, and differs 

 from typical 0. larvatus in having the four centre tail-feathers 

 entirely black, in which character, as well as in the form and 

 size of the bill, it resembles 0. nigripennis (wing 5"5). There 

 is a second specimen of this form, not quite mature, in the 

 British Museum, obtained by Mr. Digget, in the Nandi Forest. 

 These I here treat of as varieties of 0. larvatus, as they do 

 not apparently have any distinct range. 



