Dendromus melanotis Smith, 1834 . S. Afr. Quart. J., 2: 158.

TYPE LOCALITY: South Africa, near Port Natal (Durban) .

DISTRIBUTION: From South Africa (see map in Skinner and Smithers, 1990:306) north to Uganda, and west through Nigeria to Mt-Nimba in Guinea; also from Ethiopia (# 8119 in American Museum of Natural History), but published records might be D. mystacalis (Yalden et al., 1976) . Limits of range unresolved.

SYNONYMS: arenarius, basuticus, capensis, carteri, chiversi, concinnus, exoneratus, insignis (Shortridge and Carter, 1938, not Thomas, 1903), leucostomus, nigrifrons, pallidus, pretoriae, shortridgei, spectabilis, subtilis, thorntoni, vulturnus.