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Pyocephalus RUFiVENTitis (Rupp.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, 

 p. 311; Rchnw. Vog. D.-O.-Afr. p. 99 (1894); Shell. B. 

 Afr. i. p. 139 (1896) ; Neum. Journ. f. Orn. 1899, p. 61 ; 

 Rchnw. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 15 (1902). 



Herr Neumann remarks that the place " Serian," whence 

 the type of P. simplex (= rujiventris $ ) came, is not on the 

 Victoria Nyanza as stated in the f Catalogue of Birds/ but 

 in Masai-land. 



Pceocephalus meyeri (Cretzschm.) ; Shell. B. Afr. i. 

 p. 139 (part.) (1896). 



Foicephalus meyeri Neum. Journ. f. Orn. 1898, p. 501 ; 

 Rchnw. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 11 (1902). 



This species has been lately split into several forms or 

 subspecies. 



The typical form according to Neumann, followed by 

 Dr. Reichenow, is confined to Kordofan and Abyssinia. 

 The characters assigned to it are — the rump yellowish green, 

 the under-parts green, quite without any blue tinge, and the 

 upper-parts with an olive-green wash. Wing 145-151 mm. 



Pyocephalus matschiei Neum.; Sharpe, Hand-list, ii. 

 p. 26, n. 19 (1900). 



Pceocephalus meyeri Rchnw. (nee Cretzschm.) Journ. f. Orn. 

 1891, p. 146; id. Vog. D.-O.-Afr. pp. 92, 100, f . 45 (1894); 

 Shell. Ibis, 1899, p. 378. 



Poicephalas matschiei Neum. Journ. f. Orn. 1898, p. 501 

 (E. Africa, Ugogo to Masai-land). 



Poieephalus meyeri matschiei Neum. Journ. f. Orn. 1899, 

 p. 63 ; Rchnw. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 12 (1902). 



Similar to P. met/eri, but upper-parts darker, the grey- 

 brown colour of the head, neck, back, and wings darker, 

 without the olive-green tinge, the rump of a beautiful blue 

 quite without green tinge, and the under-parts blue-green. 

 Wing 146-152 mm. 



Hab. East Africa. 



Dr. Reichenow mentions a specimen obtained by Dr. 

 Fullcborn in Kondc-land, which is intermediate between 

 P. matschiei and P. reichenowi. 



