MAY, 1909. BIRDS FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA DEARBORN. 177 



The young birds range from one with a tail only 51 mm. long, 

 taken at Kijabe, January 10, to others fully grown and largely out of 

 their juvenile dress. 



See SCHIEBEL, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1906, p. 186, distribu- 

 tion. 



169. Laniarius funebris (Hartl.) 



Dryoscopus funebris Hartlaub, Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London, 1863, p. 105. Mininga, German East Africa. 

 d\ Apr., Voi. 



170. Laniarius cubla hamatus (Hatrl.) 



Dryoscopus hamatus Hartlaub, Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society of London, 1863, p. 106. Kazeh, Victoria Nyanza, German 

 East Africa. 



cT, cT, Jan., Kijabe. 



cT, Apr., Voi. 



The specimen from Voi is smaller than those from Kijabe, as may 

 be seen in the fol. owing measurements: 



cT, Voi, Apr. 14, wing, 77 mm.; tail, 66 mm.; culmen, 17 mm. 



cT, Kijabe, Jan. 2, 83 71 19.5 " 



cT, Jan. 3, 83 70 " 20 " 



They are all alike in color characters. 



171. Laniarius aethiopicus (Gm.) 



Turdus (Bthiopicus Gmelin, Systema Naturae, I. (1788) p. 824. 

 Abyssinia. 



cT, Oct., 9 , Nov., Nairobi. 



9, 9, 9, Jan., Kijabe. 



9 , Nov., Athi River. 



9 , Feb., Lake Elmienteita. 



9 , Jan., Naivasha. 



This series shows considerable variation. The male from Nairobi 

 has no white on rectrices or secondaries. It appears to be an adult 

 in fresh plumage. The female from Nairobi has the tip of the outer 

 rectrices buffy white, but no white on the secondaries. The female 

 from Naivasha, which was fully adult, is rather blacker, more glossy 

 than the last, yet her outer rectrices have the distal two-thirds of the 

 outer web and nearly half of the inner web white, as seen from be- 

 neath, and two secondaries of each wing are bordered with white 

 for their full length. Three have the outer rectrices white at the 



