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and crest-feathers much darker, almost greyish-black (in 

 G. p. leopoldi they are dirty white), and the whole upperside 

 slightly darker. 



Hub. Countries between Lake Victoria and Lakes Kivu 

 and Albert Edward. 



Type: ^ . Kitengule, Kagera River, 25. vii. 07 : R. Grauer 

 coll.' 



Obs. Besides the type there are seven specimens in the 

 Tring Museum from Lake Urigi, Kagera River, and Nsassa 

 in Ugogo. 



Dendromus abingoni annectens, subsp. n. 



Dendromus chrysurus, Reich, (nee Swains.), Vog. Afr. ii. 

 p. 173 (1902). 



Adult male and female. Similar to D. a. chrysurus from 

 Upper Guinea, but with broader black stripes on the throat 

 and breast and on the white cheeks; in this last respect 

 it resembles D. a. smithi, from which, however, it diflFers in 

 the colour of the breast and in having a shorter bill. 



Hab. From North Benguella and Angola to Lake Nyansa. 



Type: ?. Sambo, Benguella, 24. ix. 04 : W. J. Ansorge 

 coll.' 



There are numerous specimens from these regions in the 

 Tring Museum. 



Obs. Swainson^s Dendromus chrysurus was described from 

 Senegambia, and there is a specimen from Casamanse in the 

 Museum Heineanum. From that district the species is distri- 

 buted over the whole interior of Upper Guinea to the Shari 

 River. I have before me one specimen from the Garafta 

 Forest, Fouta Dj alien (Dr. Maclaud coll. : Paris Museum), 

 and three specimens from the Nana, Bamingi, and Shari 

 'Rivers, collected by Mr. Boyd Alexander. They closely 

 resemble the true D. abingoni from Natal, and, as in that 

 form, have the cheeks striped with black, but have the 

 upperside very pale olive-green and not bright yellowish- 

 olive as in the latter form. 



Bill very short : (J, 26 mm. ; ? , 23-24. 



Though typical examples of Dendromus smithi, Malh., 

 appear so different, that species is also merely a geographical 



