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f distributionmaps inFry etah andCleere&Nurney2 2. Cleere, N. andNurney, D. 1998. Nightjars. A Guide , no records can betraced3and this appears tobe the toNightjarsandRelatedNighthirds. Robertsbridge: first documented record in the country. As I did not Pica Press. see it again, despite my continued presence at the 3. Dowsett, R.J. and Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (eds) 1993 site, regularly driving tracks at night, it may have AAfrCootnrtorpiibcuatliaonndtoMtahleaDgiastsryiBbiurtdiso.nTaanudraTcaoxRoensoemayrcohf been a passage migrant. Report No. 5. Liege: Tauraco Press. A1.cknowledgement 4. Fry,C.H.,Keith,S.andUrban,E.K.(eds)1988. TheBirds ofAfrica.Vol3-London,UK:AcademicPress. Ron Demey encouraged me to write this note and 3. Ottosson,U.,Bengtsson,D.,Gustafsson.R..Hall.P.. commentedonthemanuscript. Hjort,C.,Leventis,A.P.,Neumann,R.,Pettersson,J.. Rhonnstad,P.,Rumsey,S.,Waldenstrom.J.andYelmala. References W.2002.NewbirdsforNigeriaobservedduringtheLake Borrow, N. and Demey, R. 2001. BirdsofWestern ChadBirdMigrationProject.Bull.ABC9:32-55. Africa. London, UK: A. & C. Black. Nazinga GameRanch, 01 BP6625Ouagadougou 01. BurkinaFaso. E-mail:[email protected]. Ansorge’s Greenbul Andropadus ansorgei, new to Uganda NikBommfcmdRonDemef7 LesauteursrapportentladecouverteduBulbuld’AnsorgeAndropadusansorgeienOuganda.Bienquelapresence del’especedansleParcNationaldeBwindiestsoupgonneedepuis1992.lorsquelesvocalisationscaracteristiques del’especefurententenduespourlapremierefois,cenestqu'enaout2001quececiapuetreconfirmepar l’observationvisuelled’unoiseaurepondantvigoureusementalarepassedesonchant.L’espece,quipeut facilementetreconfondueavecleBulbulgracileA gracilisestprobablementcommunedanslepare. . , O n 12November 1992, RD, Lincoln Fishpool and thatis,however,muchshorterandmuted.Thestatement JohnMiskellheardthetypicalrattlingcallofAnsorge’s inZimmermaneta thatgracilishasa‘palebrown'vent GreenbulAndropadusansorgeiatKitahurira,Bwindi further confused NB, as this did not match his West ImpenetrableNationalPark,westUganda.Asmallgreenbul Africanexperienceofthespecies.ThoughKeithetahalso wasbrieflyseenintheuppermid-leveloftheforestedge statethatA.gracilishas‘pale-brownundertail-coverts', butitsunderpartscolorationcouldnotbeascertained.On examination ofskins at the Natural HistoryMuseum plumage characters alone, it therefore could not be (Tring)revealedthatthesearebetterdescribedasyellow- separatedfromtheverysimilarandlocallynotuncommon ochre,mergingintoyellowonthebelly,whereasinboth LittleGreyGreenbulA gracilis.However,asthedryrattle racesofA.ansorgeiinominateandkavimndensis)theginger- . is,intheobservers’fieldexperience,nevermadebyLittle colouredundertail-covertsandflankssurroundthegreyish Grey Greenbul, RD and LF were certain of the belly,withnohintofyellowintheplumage.SkinsofA.g. identification,beingfamiliarwithbothspecies’vocalisations gracilismdextremadieracesoccurringinWestAfrica,and , fromelsewhereinAfrica,especiallyYapoForest,Cote ofA.g.ugandae,knownfromtheeasternDemocratic d’Ivoire.TheywereawarethatAnsorge’sGreenbulwas RepublicofCongotowestKenya,wereverymuchalike, notontheBwindi5oreventheUgandalist27but,asgood withoutplumagedifferencesthatwouldbenoticeablein viewshadnotbeenobtained,preferredtoawaitfurther thefieldandallhavingayellowishventandbelly. evidencebeforeclaiminganadditiontothecountry’s On2August2001NBagainheardthedryrattlealong avifauna. themaintrackatBuhomaandbrieflysawtwobirdswith On4August1999NBobservedseveralsmallgreenbuls thegingeryventandflankstypicalofansorgei butthey , resemblingA.ansorgeiandmakingthedryrattlingcallin rapidlydepartedanddidnotrespondtoplaybackofa themid-canopyalongthemaintrackatBuhoma,Bwindi. recordingoftheratdemadebyChappuis3inCameroon.In However,asheknewthatonlyAgradlishadbeenrecorded additiontothedryrattle,A. ansorgeialsoproducesa inUganda,hespeculatedthatthe. rattleascribedtoansorgei distinctivethree-notewhistle.NBlaterheardthiswhistle byFishpool etahwasperhapsalsomadebygracilis. andthevocalisingbirdrespondedvigorouslytoplayback CameroonSombreGreenbulA.curvirostriswasexcluded ofanidenticalrecording,madebyChappuis3 coming , byitslargersize,plainerappearance,lessobviousbroken directlytothesourceofthesoundandaffordingexcellent eye-ringanditsvocalisations,whichalsoincludearattle views. Thelackofyellowontheunderpartsandthe 140-BullABC Vol9No2 Discoveries : gingeryventandflankswereobvious.Theheadandthroat 2. Britton,P.L. (ed)1980. BirdsofEastAfrica.Nairobi: wereolive-greyandtherewasanarrowbutobviouswhite East Africa Natural HistorySociety. eye-ring.NBconcludedthatitwasindeedansorgei.Tape- 3. Chappuis, C. 2000. African BirdSounds: Birds of recordingsofthesongweremadebyAdamRiley. North, WestandCentralAfrica andNeighbouring Ansorge’s Greenbul is an uncommon to locally Atlantic Islands. London, UK: British Library Na- commonforestresidentinwestGuineatoTogoandfrom tional Sound Archive & Paris: Societe d’Etudes Omithologiques de France. Nigeria to south-west Central African Republic and 4. Fishpool,L.D.C.,Demey,R.,Allport,G.andHayman, DemocraticRepublicofCongo,withadisjunctpopulation, P.V.1994.Notesonthefieldidentificationofthebulbuls dSteastcursiabenddadsiastsreipbaurtaitoenraarceeokbasvciurroenddebnysicso.nifnuwseisotnKweintyhat1h,6e. (38P.ycnonotidae)ofUpperGuinea.Part1.Bull.ABCl 32- morecommonandwidespreadLittleGreyGreenbul.We 5. Kalina, J. and Butynski, T.M. 1992. Bird List of suspectthatAnsorge'sGreenbuliscommoninBwindi. Impenetrable(Bwindi)ForestNationalPark. Kam- 1. pala: WWF & CARE International. Acknowledgements 6. Keith,S.,Urban,E.K.andFiy,C.H.(eds)1992.TheBirds NB’sobservationsweremadewfliileleadingBirdquest ofAfrica.Vol4.London,UK:AcademicPress. tours. AlfredTwinomujuni andAdamRileyprovided 7. Short, L.L., Horne,J.F.M. and Muringo-Gichuki, C. assistanceinthefield,andLincolnFishpoolcommented 1990. Annotated Check-list of the Birds of East onthemanuscript,"f Africa. Los Angeles: Proc. Western Found. Vert. Zool., 4 (3). References 8. Zimmerman,D.A.,Turner,D.A.andPearson,D.J.1996. Birds ofKenya and northern Tanzania. London, Borrow, N. and Demey. R. 2001. BirdsofWestern UK: A. & C. Black. Africa. London, UK: A. & C. Black. “Flat5, 63-67StGeorge’sDrive,Pimlico, LondonSW1V 4DD, UK. 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