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ganyika Territory. The male is intermediate between eviini and 

 seebohmi, agreeing with the former in the tail pattern, and with 

 the latter in the tarsal length (72 millimeters). It may therefore 

 be suggested as a possibility worth investigating that seehohfni 

 ranges farther east than hitherto suspected — through northern 

 Rhodesia and Nyasaland into Tanganyika Territory where inter- 

 grades between it and ewwm, such as the Mkalama specimen, occur. 

 I have seen no typical seehohini material. 



The bird from Ourso is subadult. It is much grayer than the 

 adults ; the feather edgings are more whitish ; the outer rectrices 

 are pure white, lacking transverse bars on their inner webs (which 

 some of the adults have) ; and the transverse bars of the undersurface 

 are interrupted and obscure. 



Adult birds varj^ greatly in the coloration of the sides of the heads. 

 Some have a well-defined black postocular line immediately beneath 

 the posterior part of the white superciliary, while others have it so 

 poorly developed as to be practically wanting. The streaked pectoral 

 area also varies in redness and in the size and intensity of the dark 

 streaks. 



The adult female taken at Malata on June 22 was one of a mated 

 pair that were flushed from under some thorn bushes. Its mate 

 escaped. The latter and the specimen collected were the only indi- 

 viduals seen on the entire trip. It is rather curious that a pair ( ? 

 the sex of the other bird merely surmised by Mearns) should have 

 been seen late in June, as the only indication of the breeding season of 

 this bird in Ethiopia that has come to my notice is Hilgert's discovery 

 (reported by Erlangei',^") of two eggs on January 9 at Gololotta, 

 Arussi-Gallaland. Loveridge ^^ found an egg at Zengeragusu, Mka- 

 lama, Tanganyika Territory, on November 2. This record, although 

 published as R. c. cinctus really refers to R. c. emini. Incidentally, 

 the bird taken with the egg is in the dark gray subadult plumage, a 

 sign that the species breeds in that stage. 



The largest of the six birds collected is a female with the following 

 measurements : Wing 166, tail 91.5, culmen 20, tarsus 59 millimeters. 

 It is strange that the tarsal length varies without any definite cor- 

 relation to the size of the other parts of the body, as the bird with 

 the longest tarsus (64 millimeters) presents the following other 

 measurements: Wing 159.5, tail 83, culmen 18.5 millimeters. The 

 JVIkalama specimen with very long tarsi (72 millimeters) measures 

 otherwise as follows : Wing 15G.5, tail 82.5, culmen 18 millimeters. 



sojourn, f. Ornlth., 1905, p. GO. 



»" Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1923, p. 921. 



