KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. HAND 47. NIO 5. (',!) 



A young bird in moult shot 22 U is dark grey above with bronzy green gloss which 

 is less strong on the head. The forehead has a brownish tint. The fore-neck is dark grey 

 somewhat mottled and tingedwith ochraceons which on the breast inereases in strengtli, 

 forming niore or less distinct bars and finally becomes the dominating colour. Lower 

 breast and belly with mixed isabelline and (new) red feathers. Some of the upper wing- 

 coverts with bnff coloured bars or spöts. I saw only one young in company with the pa- 

 rent-birds. The naked spöts behind the eye is in adult males rich chrom yellow. 



The distribution of this species extends from Cameroon - - Woosnam 1 found it 

 in the Congo and Mpanga Förests (east of Ruwenzori), Jackson at Sotik and so on 

 (for further localities see Reichenow: .Vögel Afrikas II p. 216) — all the way to Kenia, 

 Kilimanjaro etc. in East Africa in suitable forests. It is evidently a member of the West 

 African forest fauna, which has been able to extend even to the eastern parts of the conti- 

 nent wherever forests of the right kind grow. There is consequently no wonderful isolated 

 occurrence on certain mountains in West and East Africa, but a wide distribution which 

 only is discontinuous because the suitable forests are not continuous. 



Coraciidie. 



Coracias garrulus L. 



Rchw. II, j). 217. 



A specimen was shot 3 /-> 1911 on the acacia-steppe at Luazomela river and others 

 were seen in similar localities. 



Coracias caudata L. 



Rchw. II, p. 223. 



A specimen of this kind was shot in a tree between Punda-Melia and Fort Hall. Se- 

 veral other specimens were seen at the same place flying from tree to tree in a country 

 which could be termedpark-steppe, because the trees were scattered över the grass-covered 

 ground. It was not far from its eastern boundary-line because northeast of Kenia it is 

 substituted by the following species. 



Coracias lorti Shell. 



Rchw. II, i». 225. 



The southernmost place where I met with this Roller which belongs to the Somali 

 fauna was not very far south of Guaso Nyiri on the acacia-steppe at Lekiundu river. Two 

 specimens were shot there, and several more were seen so that it may be said that it was one 

 of the birds typical of that country. The same may be said with regard to the thornbush 

 north of Guaso Nyiri where this Roller was common, and specimens were obtained at 

 Njoro and other places, as for instance below Chanler Falls. 



1 Träns. Zool. Soc. Vol. XIX, Part 4, p. 426. 



