17 



rump and abdomen white, narrowly barred 

 with black ; quills and tail chiefly black., 

 latter with broad median band of white. 



*33. Gymnogenys typicus typicus Smith, S. Afr. 

 Q. J., i., p. 107 (1830). [East tape Colony.] 

 Banded Gymnogene. 



Wing (J 420-450, tail 291 ; wing ?480i, tail 

 305 mm. ; general plumage dark -grey ; 

 breast and abdomen broadly barred with 

 black and white ; tail black, tipped with 

 white, with a broad band of dull white and 

 an indistinct one nearer base. 



S. Africa, 

 N.E. Africa 

 (Abyssinia i 

 White Nile). 



*33a. Gymnogenys typicus pectoralis Sharpe, Bull. Cameroons. 

 B.O.C., xiii., p. 50 (1902). [Efulen.] 

 Cameroon Gymnogene. 



Smaller ; wing ? 405 ; rather more heavily 

 barred with black below, the black bars 

 nearly equal to white bars. 



33b. Gymnogenys typicus kempi subsp. nov. [S Sierra Leone. 

 Bo, Sierra Leone, Feb. 1904, R. Kemp., 

 Brit. Mus. Reg. No., 1905, 1, 2, 5, 3.] 

 Sierra Leone Gynmogene. 



Much smaller ; wing ^ 360, ? 392 mm. ; 

 below as pale as typical form. 



33c. Gymnoger^ys typicus graueri subsp. nov. 

 [? Kissenyi, Lake Kivu, Dec. 26, 1907, 



E. Africa. 



1 Dr. Hartert tells me the N.E. African examples at Tring have the wing 445-460- 

 mm., but I cannot see any great difierences in plumage except in those from the 

 tropical zone which I have separated both as being darker and differing in size. The 

 barring is variable in all forms, but the tendency of the tropical zone birds is to show 

 more black than white below. 



