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country. From Zanzibar to the Upper White Nile specimens 

 have been collected by Emin at Altoni, Mahagi, Mbero, 

 Muggi, Kiri and Wadelai. Dr. Stulilraann found it near tho 

 north-western shores of the Victoria Nyanza at Towalia and 

 Manjonjo, and there is a specimen in the British Museum from 

 the Albert Edward Nyanza, obtained by Mr. Scott Elliot, 

 Heuglin met with four or five pairs, including the type of his 

 Macronyx striolatus, all in one place, near the source of the 

 Gazelle river in the Rek country, which is the furthest known 

 range of the species down the Nile valley. Dr. Ansorge 

 collected specimens at Mruli on the Kafu river in Unyoro 

 and at Ntibua in TJsogalaland. Mr. Jackson's collection 

 contains examples from Kavirondo, Kampala, Ntebi, and he 

 writes : " Plentiful in the open on the eastern slopes of Man. 

 Almost invariably in pairs all the year round." On the Mau 

 downs he found them up to an elevation of 8,000 feet ; he 

 also procured specimens at Machako's and at Witu. The 

 furthest northern range for this species on the coast of 

 Eastern Africa is Barawa in about 1° N. lat. 



Macronyx fuelleborni. 



Macronyx fiilleborni, Eeichen Orn. Monatsb. 1900, p. 39 Viiika. 



Type. Similar to M. croccus, but larger ; upper parts darker and the 

 under surface of the body browner. 



Upper surface similar to that of M. croccus, but with the pale edges 

 to the feathers darker ; back and scapulars shaded with rufous ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts uniform brown ; lores, eyebrow and throat yellow, 

 the latter surrounded by a black gorget ; breast and under tail-coverts 

 yellowish brown with the centre of the breast bright yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts whitish ; tail like that of M. croccus. Total length, 8-4 to 8-8 

 inches ; culmen 0-8, wing 4-2 to 4-4, tail 3 2, tarsus 1'5. 



FuUeborn's Yellow-breasted Long-claw inhabits the Unika 

 liighlands to the north of Lake Nyasa. 



Not having seen a specimen of M. fullehorni, I can only 



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