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Only male examples were included in the British Museum series, so this freshly 

 moulted female is an interesting addition to the collection. It agrees with a female 

 in Mr. Jackson's collection, but is more brightly coloured, especially on the under- 

 pays, which are strongly washed with greenish-yellow. 



Defdromus nubicus (Gmel.). 



Dendromus nubicus Reich. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 178 (1902) ; Jackson, Ibis, 1906, p. 529 [Toro ; 

 Ankoli]. 

 a. h. 6 . 80-100 miles W. of Entebbe, 3500-4100 ft., 1st & 4th Dec. [Nos. 28. 



a. 



U. E. I).; 1028. I). C] 



c. 6 . Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 5000 ft., 23rd March. [No. 2232. G. L.] 



</. 2 . Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 10th May. [No. 1535. 1). C] 



e. d .■ , „ „ 21st June. [No. 1658. J). C] 



f. v . Semliki Valley, 2000 ft., 10th Oct. [No. 502. IL E. R] 



Iris dark pink, dark red, or mauve ; bill black ; feet olive-green or olive-brown. 



[The Nubian Woodpecker was obtained near Entebbe and all around the foot of 

 the mountains, but it was never met with at an elevation of more than 5000 it. 

 — 11. B. W.] 



Mksopicus ruwenzori Sharpe. 

 Mesopicos griseocephalus Shelley (nee Bodd.), Ibis, 1897, p. 547 [Nyasaland] ; 1899, p. 37H 

 [N. of Lake Nyasa] ; Neumann, J. f. O. 1900, p. 201 [Kilimanjaro] ; Reich. Vog. Afr. 

 ii. p. 1S5 (1902) [part., Nyasaland]. 

 Mesopicus ruwenzori Sharpe, Bull. 15. O. C. xiii. p. 8 (1903) [Ruwenzori]. 



a, b. 6. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 8000 ft, 21st & 23rd Jan. [Nos. 1180. 

 I). C.\ 2105. 67. L.] 



c-e. 6 2. Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 8000 ft., 2nd-8th Feb. [Nos. 1211, 



1217, 1222. I). C] 



f g. 6 . Mubuku Valley, E. Ruwenzori, 8000 ft, 1st Mar. [Nos. 1275, 1276. I). C] 



'//. 6. „ „ „ 6th April. [No. 232. If. E I).] 



Iris dark brown ; bdl black, grey on the lower mandible ; feet grey or dark grey. 



The type of Dr. Sharpe's M. ruwenzori is undoubtedly quite a young bird, and is not 



really very closely related to M. spodocephalm (Bonap.), with which it has been 



compared. The adult of M. ruwenzori is closely allied to M. griseocephalus (Bodd.) 



from S. Africa, but has a well-developed bright scarlet patch on the middle of the 



belly. Captain Shelley has wrongly identified birds from Nyasaland with the latter 



form, which, as a rule, has no trace of a scarlet patch on the middle of the belly. 



though a male specimen from Drakensburg (E. A. Bailer) and a female specimen 



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