NICATOR GULARIS 439 
(Bates); French Congo—Rio Benito and Como River (Bates) 
Moonda River and Gaboon (du Chaillu); Belgian Congo— 
Aruwimi River (Jameson), Lualaba in Katanga (Neave), 
Ponthierville (Carruthers), and Fort Beni (Ruwenzori Exped.) ; 
Uganda—F ort Portal (Ruwenzori Exped.), Toro and Entebbe 
(Jackson); Belgian Congo—Welle River (Alexander) ; French 
Congo—Kubedje, between Lake Chad and Ubangi (Alexander). 
Nicator gularis. (PI. 55, fig. 2.) 
Nicator gularis, Finsch. and Hartl. Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 360 (1870) Tete ; 
Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 167 (1883); Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 782 
(1896) ; Stark and Sel. Bds. 8. Afr. ii. p. 43, fig. 10 (1901); Reichen. 
Vog. Afr. ii. p. 555 (1903); Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 299 (1903) ; 
Erlanger, J. f. O. 1905, p. 695 S. Somaliland; Stoehr and Sel. 
J. 8. Afr. Orn. Union, 1906, p. 95 Feira; Sheppard, ibid. 1909, p. 29, 
1910, p. 42 Bezra; Swynnerton, Ibis, 1908, p. 61 Gazaland ; 
Bannerman, Ibis, 1910, p. 691 Kilimanjaro ; Sjostedt, Kilimandjaro. 
Meru Exped. p. 113 (1910); W. Sclater, Ibis, 1911, p. 290. 
Adult male. Similar to N. chloris, but distinguished by the colouring 
of the head and throat; forehead and front half of the crown ashy-brown ; 
sides of head pale brown with a yellow and white patch in front of the eye; 
throat brownish-buff fading into whitish on the chin; in other respects 
resembling the previous species. Iris hazel; bill horn coloured; legs and 
feet slate ; eyelids yellow. Length 9:3 inches, wing 4:15, tail 4-2, culmen 0:8, 
tarsus 1:2. Zambesi below Zumbo, 3, 27. 10. 98 (Alexander). 
Female. Has the spot in front of the eye white with no yellow, and is 
markedly smaller. Wing 3:5, tail 3-4, tarsus 1-1. 
The Zambesi Nicator ranges from the lower valley of the 
Juba River on the Somaliland border southwards to Zululand. 
It was described by Hartlaub from an adult male and a 
young female obtained at Shupanga and Tete respectively by 
Sir John Kirk during the Livingstone Expedition. 
In Zululand, the most southern point of its range, it was 
procured on the Ivuna, Umkusi, and Pongola rivers by the 
Woodward brothers. They describe it as solitary and silent, 
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