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BULLETIN 15 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



would seem that the small bird or birds on which Brehm based 

 damans came not from Khartoum, but from Shoa. (The birds 

 examined by Sclater and Praed are from Sobat River, Lake No, and 

 Kamisa.) I therefore designate Shoa as the type locality. 



Apparently the type specimen is not extant as Hartert ^^ does not 

 mention it in his list of the types in the Brehm collection, now de- 

 posited in the Tring Museum. In case the name damans should 

 prove to be based on a rather small example of vocifer from the 

 Sudan, the next oldest name available for the small Ethiopian race 

 would be orientalis Heuglin.^- 



At one time Cuncuma vocifer was thought to occur in southern 

 Europe, a notion since shown to be false. Nevertheless specimens 

 bearing European localities on their labels are in existence, but the 

 data of these birds are undoubtedly inaccurate. A specimen of 

 typical vocifer ostensibly from Greece, in the United States Na- 

 tional Museum is to be accounted for in this way. It was received 

 from W. Schl liter who was commissioned to get together a complete 

 collection of European birds for the museum. At the time the 

 present species was thought to occur in southern Europe and con- 

 sequently a specimen was obtained, labeled " Greece " and included 

 for the sake of completeness. Incidentally this particular specimen 

 is extremely large, having a wing length of 582 millimeters. 



The difference in size between vocifer and damans may be ap- 

 preciated from the following tables. 



C. vocifer damans 



siNov. Zool., 1918. 



"Journ. f. Ornith., 1863, p. 8. 



