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red. Its type-locality is Lindi, and hence but 30 miles from that of 

 makondorum. Because of its intermediate nature, I shall not recog- 

 nize it hère. Very probably barbata will be found extending south- 

 ward in Mozambique, whence Ghigi's type may hâve corne. 



Fig. 3. — Head of Guttera edouardi sclateri, adult maie trom Sakbayeme. 

 Cameroon. in Muséum of Comparative Zoology. Cambridge. Mass. 

 One-half natural size. 



The amount of black feathering on the base of the neck seems to 

 be an important character. More attention would probably hâve 

 been given to it, had it been easier to measure in dried skins. In 

 pucherani and plumifera it is entirely lacking; but granti approaches 

 pucherani, I believe, in its reduced black collar as well as in its red 

 orbital patch. Perhaps pucherani is hardly a distinct species from 

 edouardi; at ail events it is far less différent than plumifera. 



According to Ghigi, G. e. edouardi from Natal had the skin of 

 the throatred, and his lividicollis of the Zambesi région was separated 

 mainly because of its dark throat. I do not think the distinction is 

 well established; and I am not inclined to recognize Guttera e. sy- 

 monsi Roberts (i) from the mountains of Natal, which is said to hâve 



|i) Armais Transvaal Mus., VI, part 1, 1917, p. 3. 



