356 DRYOSCOPUS NANDENSIS 
Monteiro, the British Museum contains a series of seven 
males and five females, recently collected by Dr. Ansorge at 
N’Dalla Tando in north Angola, between the months of 
August, 1908, and January, 1909. 
Dryoscopus nandensis. 
Dryoscopus nandensis, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. xi. p. 28 (1900) Nandi ; 
Jackson, Ibis, 1901, p. 41, pl. 2, fig. 1; 1906, p. 552 Zoro; 
Ogilvie-Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 342 (1910) Ltwri Forest. 
Dryoscopus angolensis nandensis, Reichen. Vég. Afr. ii. p. 590 (1908); id. 
Deutsch. Zentral. Afr. Exped. iii. p. 313 (1910). 
Dryoscopus adolfi-friederici, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1908, p. 160 
Foussoro. 
Adult male. Closely allied to D. angolensis, from which it differs merely 
in the slaty shade over the black crown, and rather paler under parts ; it is 
slightly larger in size, and the bill is a trifle shorter. Iris dark brown, 
bill black, feet dull flesh. Length 7-0 inches, wing 3°4, tail 2°75, culmen 
0:70, tarsus 0°85. Ituri forest, g, 16. 10. (Woosnam). 
The Nandi Puff-back Shrike is confined to central Africa, 
ranging from the Congo Forest west of Lake Albert and Lake 
Albert Edward to Nandi, east of Lake Victoria. 
The type was discovered by F. J. Jackson in the Nandi 
country at about 6,500 feet; it shows signs of immaturity 
in the buff margin to some of the coverts and secondaries, 
and the pale edges to the mandibles. A second example was 
obtained by Archer for Jackson at Kibera in Toro some years 
subsequently, while the Ruwenzori Expedition procured only 
a single example at Irumu in the Ituri Forest. This was 
shot by Woosnam among the tree tops of the forest. Ansorge 
also got a specimen in the Congo Forest at Diapanda “ six 
days west of Beni in the Semliki Valley.” On an example 
obtained by the Duke of Mecklenburg “ west of Ruwenzori 
at 1,800 metres,” Reichenow based his D. adolphi-friederict, 
which he afterwards found to be identical with the present 
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