BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 15 



20, inclusive, 24; Lake Abaya, March 21-22, 14 seen; Lake Rudolf, 

 July 5-8, inclusive, about a thousand together with about the same 

 number of Phalaci'ocorax lucidus; about 200 on July 10, also at Lake 

 Rudolf ; and 4 on the following day about 10 miles south of the lake ; 

 2, August 31 and September 1 at the Athi River, Kenya Colony, near 

 the Athi station on the Uganda Railway. 



As far as I know this is the only cormorant recorded as yet from 

 the area southwest of Lake Rudolf, the so-called Turkanaland coun- 

 try, but so little is known as yet of the avifauna of that region that 

 it seems unlikely that the present species should occur there to the 

 exclusion of P. c. lugubris. 



It seems rather doubtful that more than one form of this bird exists 

 in continental Africa. An adult specimen from the Transvaal 

 (M.C.Z. 232553) is indistinguishable from others from Tanganyika 

 Territory and from Cameroon. According to Roberts ^* the Trans- 

 vaal bird should be africanoides A. Smith, but it can not be told 

 from undoubted africanus. Likewise Millet-Horsin's menegauxi ^^ 

 seems not separable according to Sclater ^°. 



Family ANHINGIDAE 



ANHINGA RUFA RUFA (Lacepede and Daudin) 



Plotus rtifus Lacepede and Daudin, in Buffon's Hist. Nat., (18mo., Didot ed.) 

 Quadr., vol. 14, p. 319; Ois., vol. 17, p. 81, 1802: Senegal (from Daubenton, 

 PI. Enl. 107). 



Specimens collected: 



Female adult. Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 22, 1912. 



Female adult. Black Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 25, 1912. 



Besides the two birds listed above, this species was met with as 

 follows: Two seen on March 18 at Black or North Abaya Lake; 

 4 on the following day and 2 on the day after; on March 21, 40 were 

 seen at Lake Abaya, and 20 more were noted March 23-26 between 

 Abaya Lake itself and White or South Abaya Lake. In Kenya 

 Colony, 2 were seen on the Tana River, August 15 ; 4 near the mouth 

 of the Thika River, August 23 ; 6 in the next few days at the junction 

 of the Tana and Thika Rivers; and 6 on the Athi River August 

 30 and September 1. 



Neither of the two specimens collected is fully adult and both 

 have some brownish feathers on the under parts of the body, the 

 bird from Lake Abaya being more nearly fully adult than the other. 



" Annals. Transv. Mus., vol. 10, pt. 3, 1924, p. 140. 

 i=Rev. Franc. d'Orn., 1921, vol. 1."?, p. 177 : Togo. 

 '° Syst. Avium Etliiopicarum, 10'.>4, p. lil. 



