obtained in British East Africa. 637 
Bill and bare skin of eye yellow ; feet slate-coloured ; iris 
crimson. 
No. 907. ? ad. Ravine, 7500 feet, March 7, 1898. 
No. 1190. S ad. Nandi, 6500 feet, Jnne 4, 1898. Bill 
and bare skin of face yellow : feet slaty black, edge of scales 
dull light green ; iris brown. Breeding. I found a nest 
containing four young in an old Woodpecker^s hole about 
forty feet from the ground. The tree was partly dead, and 
on the edge of a thick belt of forest. There were five or six 
other holes in the dead portion of the tree-trunk. 
341. Dendromus nubicus. 
CampotTiera nubica (Gm.) ; Hargitt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xviii. p. 93 (1890); Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, p. 307 (Save, 
Mt. Elgon) ; Beichen. Vog. deutsch. Ost-Afr. p. 121 (1894). 
Dendromus nubicus Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 202 (Nguru- 
man; Ngaruka; Kwa Kitoto). 
No. 399. c^ ad. E. Kamassia, Sept. 30, 1896. Bill dusky 
slate-coloured ; feet dark green ; iris crimson. ^ 
No. 624. ? ad. Uavine, April 12, 1897. Scarce. 
[The variation in a series of Dendromus nubicus is simply 
extraordinary, especially as regards the spotting and barring 
of the back and under jjarts. 1 have come to the conclusion 
that the barring of the flanks is more or less a sign of 
immaturity. The birds from the White Nile (true D. nubicus) 
differ slightly in the prominence of the spots of the under 
surface and the clearness of the white spots on the crown in 
the female, but I find that they can be matched by Abyssinian 
birds. Of the former, called by Dr. Beichenow D. neumanni, 
Mr. Jackson only got a single specimen, from Kamassia : 
this is coarsely marked, and has a few black spots con- 
tinued up to the chin. This specimen, identified by Mr. Oscar 
Neumann as D. neumanni, can almost be matched by speci- 
mens from Shoa and Southern Abyssiniaj Arabsyio and Jifa 
Medir in Somaliland. The Kamassia bird is the only one 
which has the spots continued up to the chin, but the black 
spots on the chest and the dark bars on the flanks are found 
in all the specimens above mentioned. At the same time 
