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496 millimeters, and the female, 533 millimeters. These figures agree 

 more closely with those given by Zedlitz for damaiis than with those 

 for vocife7\ 



The small birds {clamaiis) come from northeastern Africa — Ethi- 

 opia and adjacent regions of Somaliland. Western and southern 

 birds are larger. However, Zedlitz -^ mentions a small specimen 

 (wing 485 millimeters) from Kagano, Adamaua, a locality which I 

 have not been able to place with certainty, but which is probably in 

 Cameroon ( ? ) . 



Sclater and Praed -^ list two males from the Sudan with wings of 

 528 and 535 millimeters, respectively, agreeing not with damans but 

 with vodfer. These authors accordingly keep the two forms united. 



The evidence produced by Zedlitz, Erlanger, and by Mearns' speci- 

 mens certainly indicates two distinct forms in eastern Africa — a 

 smaller northern, and a larger southern race. The form damans 

 was described with no mention of a type locality andf for some rea- 

 son unknown to me, has been supposed to occur in Ethiopia, Soma- 

 liland, and the Sudan, although, as far as I know, all Sudanese ex- 

 amples are large, typical vocifer. Zedlitz-^ writes that damans is 

 probably the form inhabiting southern Somaliland, but that only 

 one specimen is known from there and that he was not able to see 

 it. This specimen was collected by Eevoil and went to the Paris 

 Museum, from which institution it was sent in exchange to the 

 United States National Museum where it now is. It is an adult 

 male and is extremely small, even for damans^ having a wing only 

 480 millimeters long. This specimen was originally recorded by 

 Oustalet in his report on RevoiPs collection.^^ 



If the range of damans be restricted to Ethiopia and adjacent por- 

 tions of the Somali country, size and geography would correlate each 

 other and the two races would then be distinct. Birds from the east- 

 ern Sudan, west of the Lado Enclave are more or less intermediate, 

 as might be expected. 



There is some doubt as to the validity of the name damaTis as no 

 definite locality was designated by Brehm. Alfred E. Brehm col- 

 lected in Egypt, Nubia, Sennar, and Ethiopia, but the chances are 

 that the bird on which he based his form damans came from Ethi- 

 opia and not from the eastern Sudan. Reichenow ^° lists specimens 

 from Shoa as being in the Brehm collection, and also one from Khar- 

 toum in the Berlin Museum, as collected by Brehm. Judging by the 

 data presented by Sclater and Mackworth-Praed (see above) it 



2«Journ. f. Ornith., 1910, pp. 38&-390. 



^ Ibis, 1019, p. G92. 



=8Journ. f. Ornith., 1914, p. 670. 



»Bibl. de I'Ecole des Hautea fitudos, 31, art. No. 10, 1886, pp. 1-14. 



«>V6g. Afr., vol. 1, 1901, p. 605. 



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