KUNUL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAB. BAND 47. N:u 5. 07 



Mesopicus spodocephalus rhodeogaster Fscmt. Rchw. 



Rchw. II, p. 188. 



In a narrow forest belt at Rooruka river a male specimen was obtained ' i MM I. 

 A few days låter another specimen was shot near Nairobi. Length of wing 105 mm. I ris 

 brown. 



This race appears to be typical for the forest-fauna of the country from Man to Great 

 Arusha. It substitutes there the more northern and northeastern M. .sporioccji/ialit.- 

 spodocephalus. The distribution of this race is accordingly rather similar to that of Tu- 

 racas harilaubi, to judge from the literature. 



Mesopicus namaquus schoensis (Rupp.). 



Rchw. II. j». 191. 



This Woodpecker appears to be rather common round Nairobi. The first specimen 

 was obtained in a thick forest at Mc Naughtons farm 31 /is 1910, another % in the forest- 

 reser ve at the Limuru road. 



It was also found among large acacias round Luazomela river ( 20 /a 1911). 



In the female from Nairobi the black stripe through the ear unites with the black 

 stripe which borders the throat and both the latter join on the chest. In the two males, 

 however, this connection between the black stripes is more or less interrupted and they 

 resemble thus far to a certain degree M. n. namaquus from which they, however, decidedly 

 differ in other respects. 



Dendropicus hemprichi (Hempr. Ehr.). 



Rchw. II, p. 193. 



In a thornbush patch, south of Guaso Nyiri not far from the förd on the way to Mar- 

 sabit, and in similar country between Njoro and Thera, a water place in a dry river bed 

 north of Guaso Nyiri, specimens of this Woodpecker were obtained. 



Length of wing in male 82, in female 78 mm. 



This is evidently a northeastern bird at its southern boundary-line. 



Coliidte. 



Colius leucotis affinis Shell. 



Rchw. II, p. 205. 



A very common bird round Nairobi wherever any suitable localities could be found. 

 In addition to its usual diet it appears to be fond of the coffee-berries and might therefore 

 in the future possibly be obnoxious to the coffee plantations. They occurred always in 

 small flocks and preferred thick patches of bushes or small trees near open or cultivated 

 ground. When they are flying the reddish brown of the inner web of the quills is more 

 apparent than could be expected from its extension. The flight appears rather laborious 

 and they fly seldom far, as a rule, only to the next dense bush or tree in which they 



