340 ANAPLECTES MELANOTIS 



ally, but may, as in the present instance, liave fairly well- 

 marked characters which possibly depend solely upon the age, 

 food, or health of the specimen when killed, for we seldom have 

 the chance of properly studying the effect of the moult. 



The type of A. melanotis came nominally from Senegal. 

 Verreaux received the species from Casamanse, and on the 

 Gold Coast Mr. Boyd Alexander observed it occasionally, but 

 did not procure an example. In the Paris Museum there was 

 one of Gujon's specimens labelled " Gaboom," and this is all 

 that is known to me regarding the species in West Africa to 

 the north of the Congo ; but it appears to be fairly plentiful 

 in Angola and Benguela, specimens having been collected in 

 Angola (Schiitt) and at the Kuango River (Mechow). In 

 Benguela, according to Anchieta, it is abundant on cultivated 

 lands, and is known to the natives as the " Genge " at Quin- 

 dumbo and as the " Quii'iandendi " at Galanga. 



In Eastern Africa these birds have been met with as far 

 south as Chiuta on the Tanganyika Plateau, to the north-west 

 of Lake Nyasa, where the type of A. rufigena was procured l)y 

 Sir Alfred Sharpe. The oldest name for this variety is 

 A. erijthrogenis (Reicheu.), the types of which were collected 

 by Fischer at Maurui and in the Pare highlands. That variety 

 has also been obtained in Angola (Schiitt), at Lado (Emin) and 

 at Moschi (jS^eumann). 



The typical form of A. iitdanutis has been procured at the 

 Lugoma stream in the Marungu country by Bohm, who also 

 found it breeding at Kakoma during the latter half of May. 

 Specimens have also been obtained in the Unyamwesi country 

 (Emin), in Ugogo (Preun), at Lake Naiwasha (Fischer), on 

 Kilimanjaro and at Muansa (Neumann), at Mosongoleni 

 (Ansorge), and by Mr. Jackson on Mount Maunga in Teita, 

 at Blgeyu on Lake Baringo, in the Kamassia Mountains, and 

 from the late expedition to the Ruwenzori Mountains he 



