. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 7ol. xlv.] 6 O. M. RUEPPELLi [Ami/drus rueppelli Yerreaux in Chenn, Encycl. Meth. v. p. 166, 1856 : Abyssinia]. Wing of male averaging 160 mm. ; tail 160-170 ; bill longer, about 31. JRanpe. Confined to Highlands of Abyssinia, ranging east to the Ogaden country. M. NEUMANNI \_Ami/drus newnanni Alexander, Bull. B. 0. C. xxiii. p. 41, 1908 : Petti, N. Nigeria]. Wing 155 mm.; tail 155 ; bill short, stout, and very deep ; with a rounded and ridged culmen, about 30 mm. Range. Northern Nigeria and the Banso Mts. in N. Cameroon east through Darfur t
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 7ol. xlv.] 6 O. M. RUEPPELLi [Ami/drus rueppelli Yerreaux in Chenn, Encycl. Meth. v. p. 166, 1856 : Abyssinia]. Wing of male averaging 160 mm. ; tail 160-170 ; bill longer, about 31. JRanpe. Confined to Highlands of Abyssinia, ranging east to the Ogaden country. M. NEUMANNI \_Ami/drus newnanni Alexander, Bull. B. 0. C. xxiii. p. 41, 1908 : Petti, N. Nigeria]. Wing 155 mm.; tail 155 ; bill short, stout, and very deep ; with a rounded and ridged culmen, about 30 mm. Range. Northern Nigeria and the Banso Mts. in N. Cameroon east through Darfur to the Nile Valley, where the birds are intermediate between this and 0. m, slielleyi. 0. M. MONTANUS \_Amydrus montanus van Someren, Bull. B. 0. C. xl. p. 52, 1919 : Mt. Elgon, at 9000 ft.].. I^^^^s of: (a) 0. m. morio, Durban; (i) O. m. shelleyi, Ug-ogo ; (c) O. m. montanus^ Mt. Elgon; {d) O. m. neumanni, N. Nigeria; (<-?) O. m. rueppelli, Abyssinia. All approximately natural size. Wing 160 mm. ; tail 154 ; bill long and very slender, quite different in shape to that of the other races, about 34 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Taylor, Nancy M. Oxford : Clarendon Press
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