HYPOCHERA NIGERRIMA 11 
collected at Bukoba (Stuhlmann), Kampala (Neumann), 
Mamboio (Kirk), Karema (Bohm), Magnua (Fiilleborn), and at 
many places in Nyasaland ; the type came from Natal, and the 
Messrs. Woodwards obtained specimens at Eschowe in Zulu- 
land. 
From Nyasaland there is a good series in the British 
Museum obtained at Zomba, Lake Shirwa, Dedza, Fort Lister, 
Namiwawa and Malosa, in full plumage in April, July, Sep- 
tember and December, and according to Mr. Alfred Sharpe 
the bird is known to the natives as the ‘‘ Mlimba.” 
Hypochera nigerrima. 
Hypochera nigerrima, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 133 Galungo-alto ; id. 
Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 811 (1890); Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 310 (1896) ; 
Reichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 216 (1904). 
Hypochera funerea nigerrima, Stark, Faun. 8. Afr. B. i. p. 154 (1900). 
Hypochera purpurascens, Reichen. J. f. O. 1883, p. 221 Usegua, Lindt ; 
Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 308 (1896). 
Similar to H. funerea, but distinguished by the gloss on the full plumaged 
males being duller and blacker. 
The Black Combasou ranges from the Congo into the Lake 
Ngami district and eastward to Lindi and the Usegua country. 
This form has been procured at Kassongo (Bohndorff), 
Galungo-alto (Hamilton), Kahata (Anchieta), Nukana, to the 
north of Lake Ngami (Fleck), Mauser, on the Zambesi 
(Alexander), Zomba and Fort Lister (Whyte), Undis (Fiille- 
born), Lindi and Usegua (Fischer). 
On the Zambesi as well as in Nyasaland and the Usegua 
country both this form and H. funerea have been obtained, and 
the ranges of both are comprised in that of H. amauwropterya, 
which detracts somewhat from the specific value of the shade 
of the gloss on the plumage, by which character only can they 
be distinguished. 
