346 DRYOSCOPUS MALZACII 
der); S. Nigerta—Abeokuta (Robin); N. Nigeria—Lokoja 
(Forbes), Pittu and Katab (Alexander). 
D. g. congicus: Condé, Landana and St. Antoine, all in 
Portuguese Congo (aucan and Petit). 
Dryoscopus malzacii. 
Malaconotus malzacii, Heugl. 8. B. Akad. Wien, xix. p. 286 (1856) 
White Nile, nom. nud. ; id. Orn, N. O. Afr. p. 457 (1871). 
Dryoscopus malzacii, Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 265 S. Abyssinia ; 
1907, p. 588 Baro River ; Erlanger, J. f. O. 1905, p. 699; Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. iii. p. 834 (1905) ; Butler, Ibis, 1900, p. 226, 1909, p. 81 
Bahr el Ghazal. 
Dryoscopus cinerascens, Hartl. J. f. O. 1880, p. 212 Lado; Shelley, 
B. Afr. i. No. 745 (1896). 
Dryoscopus malzacii erythree, Neumann, J. f. O. 1899, p. 412 Sala- 
mona, Hritrea ; 1905, p. 223 Shoa; Zedlitz, J. f. O. 1910, p. 800 
Eritrea. 
Subspecies a. Dryoscopus nyanse. 
Dryoscopus malzacii nyansze, Neumann, J.f. O. 1899, p. 412 Kavirondo. 
Dryoscopus malzacii, Ogilvie-Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 342 (1910) 
Ruwenzori. - 
Dryoscopus cinerascens, Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 552 Toro. 
Adult male. Very closely resembling D. gambensis, from which it 
cannot be distinguished except by its slightly smaller bill, averaging from the 
nostril to the tip of the culmen 0-5 inches, against 0°6 in the West African 
species. Iris orange, bill black, feet slate blue. Length 7:5 inches, wing 3:5, 
tail 3-2, culmen 0°8, tarsus 0'9. Ruwenzori, 3, 22. 1. 06 (Legge). A speci- 
men from Abyssinia (Hoorsa, 19. 1. 02, Degen) has the same measurements. 
Adult female. Above dusky, almost black on the crown, slightly 
browner on the back and wings; tail black; puff-feathers on the rump dark 
grey, washed with dirty brown; scapulars, coverts, and secondaries edged 
with whitish, the edging on the primaries slightly tawny; under parts 
white, the chest and flanks washed with ochraceous, generally rather faintly, 
but the throat and under tail-coverts always pure white. Wing 3-4. Habub 
(Esler). 
D. nyanze. Females from Uganda and East Africa are much more 
strongly coloured on the under parts with tawny ochraceous, and this 
spreads over the throat and under tail-coverts. The scapulars, coverts, and 
quills are edged and tipped with tawny, not white. Wing 3:3. Ruwenzori, 
2, 14. 3. 06 (Woosnam). 
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