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that race by being very much greyer below—less: pinkish ; 
the crown and crest more greyish ; the blue nape-pateh 
brighter paler blue; the wings and tail washed greenish, 
less bluish ; the throat greyish like the breast. 
Wings 88-95 mm., thus larger than C. m. pulcher. 
Range. Central Lake District, Kivu, Albert Edward, and 
N. Tanganyika. | | 
Type in Tring Museum. ¢ ad., 21.1.08. No. 1886, 
Grauer Coll. 
Obs. This is the darkest known race of the blue-naped 
Colies, 
Halcyon badia budongoensis, subsp. nov. 
Very like H. badia, of Gaboon, but much larger and 
more heavily built; the chestnut of the back and crown 
paler and brighter; the blue patch in the rump narrower 
and paler ; the blue on the wings tinged with green. 
Wings 100-105 mm. 
Range. Central and West Uganda and Lake District. 
Type in my own collection. ¢ ad., 27.12.18. Bugoma 
Forest. Dr. van Someren Coll. 
ae 
Dr. vAN SomEREN exhibited the male of 
Sarothrura somerent Bannerman (page 9), 
which he describes as follows :— 
Head and sides of neck orange-brown, slightly darker on 
the crown ; throat white; the brown of the neck not extend- 
ing on to the mantle or upper breast ; back, wings, and tail 
black, each feather on these parts with two submarginal 
white lines, the broadest lines being on wings ; upper breast 
white, the feathers with a black shaft-streak; lower 
breast pure white; abdomen white streaked blackish ; 
under wing-coverts black with white margins. Wings 
85 mm., bill 12, tarsus 20, tail 24. 
Obs. There are two breeding males in my own collection 
and two in the Nairobi Museum, These birds are found 
_ from Kisumu south to Ukambani. 
