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Hah. Central Africa, from the Mau Mountains to the 

 Semliki River. 



Type in the Tring Museum : ^ . Budongo Forest, Unyoro, 

 29. iii. 07. L. M. Seth-Smith coll. * 



Obs. Specimens collected by Mr. F. J. Jackson on the 

 Mau Mountains are in the British Museum, and others, 

 collected at Fort Beni, Semliki River, by the Duke Adolf 

 Friedrich of Mecklenburg's expedition, are in the Berlin 

 Museum. 



GUTTERA CRISTATA SUAHELICA, Subsp. U. 



Adult male and female. Similar to G. c. cristata from West 

 Africa, but the spots on the feathers and the stripes on the 

 outer webs of the wings are slightly paler than in G. c. cris- 

 tata, and the crest is fuller and larger, the feathers, especially 

 those of the forehead, being longer. The bare skin of the 

 head and neck is dark blue, only the lower part of the fore- 

 neck and a small spot below the eye being red. 



Hab. German East Africa from the Coast to Ugogo. 



Type in the Berlin Museum : ^ . Lindi, German East 

 Africa. Schnorrenpfeil coll.* 



Alcedo leucogaster bowdleri, subsp. n. 



Ispidina leucogaster juv.^ Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xvii. 

 p. 194 (1892). 



Adult male and female. Similar to A. I. leopoldi, Dubois 

 (from the Congo, Gaboon, and South Cameroon), which is a 

 smaller subspecies of A. I. leucogaster (Eraser) from Fernacdo 

 Po, but the forehead and sides of head are ferruginous, only 

 the middle of the vertex being black, barred with blue. 



Wing 55-57 mm. 



Hab. Upper Guinea, from Sierra Leone to the Gold 

 Coast. 



Type in the British Museum : adult. Sierra Leone. Gould 

 coll. 



* [Both these supposed subspecies of Guttera cristata appear to be 

 founded on seasonal changes of plumage ; freshly moulted birds having 

 the spots and stripes of a brighter blue, while in -worn specimens the 

 markings become paler,— Ed.] 



