BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 



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Wing 761, tail 428, and culmen 71.5 millimeters, as may be seen from 

 the following table. 



Locality 



Ethiopia 



Uganda, Rhino Camp 



Kenya Colony: 



Potha, Kapiti Plains 



Ulukenia Hills 



North Guaso Nyiro, Leki- 



undu River 



Do 



Uganda, Tombeki River (below 

 Assua River) 



Sex 



cT adult. 

 do.- 



...do.. 

 .._do.. 



do.. 



9 adult. 



do.- 



Sclater "^ gives the range of this vulture as " Egypt to Kordof an, 

 Abyssinia and Somaliland " and that of the typical southern form 

 as " Africa south of the Zambesi," leaving a wide gap between the 

 two races. Erlanger ^° wrote that as far as he knew but one specimen 

 from East Africa (collected by C. G. Schillings) existed in Euro- 

 pean museums at the time of his writing. Zedlitz,^^ like Erlanger, 

 did not recognize nubicus because of lack of material. Just how far 

 south nuhicus ranges is not known, but it certainly occurs south of 

 Ethiopia and Somaliland. Sclater and Praed ^- indicate that there 

 are no East African specimens in the British Museum. It therefore 

 seems that the bird is scarce in tropical East Africa, and it is conse- 

 quently worth noting that the United States National Museum pos- 

 sesses specimens from Kenya Colony (Ulukenia Hills, Kapiti Plains, 

 and Lekiundu River) that belong to this race. 



TRIGONOCEPS OCCIPITALIS (Burchell) 



Vitltur occipitalis Bjtbchell, Travels, vol. 2, p. 329, 1824: Makkwari or Mat- 

 lowing River, near Kuruman. 



Spedmens collected: 



One unsexed, Arussi Plateau, 9,200 feet altitude, Ethiopia; Feb- 

 ruary 25, 1912. 



One female, Arussi Plateau, 9,200 feet altitude, Ethiopa; Febru- 

 ary 20, 1912. 



One male (foot only), Galana River, Lake Abaya, Ethiopia; 

 March 19, 1912. 



One female, Gato River, near Gardula, 4,000 feet, Ethiopia ; April 

 24, 1912. 



One female (foot only), Bodessa, Ethiopia; May 28, 1912. 



^o Syst. Avium Etliiop., 1924, p. 48. 

 sojourn, f. Ornith., 1904, p. 137. 

 " Idem, 1910, pp. 362-363. 

 *'Ibis, 1919, p. 706. 



