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the chief physician of the Soudan. That it occurs in Equatorial Africa is evident from a specimen 
in the British Museum, which was obtained by Emin Pasha at Muggi on the 28th of October. 
On the western side of the African continent it is found in Senegambia; and Hartert, who 
observed it on the Niger in the Benue district, says that it was only seen on a few occasions at Keffi 
and Saria. How far south, however, it ranges on the West Coast I cannot say, as the records of its 
occurrence in that part of Africa are very meagre. 
Eespecting the habits of the present species, I find nothing on record beyond what I have cited 
above, and its eggs appear to to be unknown ; but doubtless it nests, like its congeners, in holes in 
trees and deposits white eggs. 
Dr. Sharpe remarks (Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvii. p. 25) that “ the Senegambian birds, true C. nmvius, 
are somewhat different from those from North-eastern Africa. They have a slight shade of greyish 
olive at the end of the feathers of the crown, which is otherwise reddish. I have, however, not seen 
enough specimens to enable me to judge whether these slight differences are constant, and the bird 
from the Niger will also require comparison.” 
To this I may remark that one of the two specimens in the British Museum collection from the 
Gambia (spec. I, Eiver Gambia, Whitely) is, I consider, undoubtedly referable to C. mosamhicus^ 
but, being a dealer’s skin and not having the original label, there is probably an error in the locality 
given. 
The specimens figured and described are in my own collection. 
In the preparation of the above article I have, besides the series in the British Museum, examined 
the following specimens:— 
E Mus. H. E. Eresser. 
a, ^ ad. Abyssinia {Gerrard). h, ^ ad. Farre, N.E. Africa, 4th February, 1886 (Count 7. Salvadori). c, $ ad. 
Dinki, N.E. Africa, 29th October, 1885 (Count T. Salvadori). 
E Mus. H. B. Tristram. 
a. Kordofan, 1842 (J. Petherick). b. Kikombo, on the road to Uganda, August 1888 (Dr. S. Tristram-Pruen). 
c, d. Bathurst, Gambia, 1st July, 1889 (Dr. P. Rendall). 
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