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hecki. However, there can be no doubt but that they are identical, 

 and Erlanger's name must stand. Since the description of fricM, 

 the type (the male listed above) has been examined by Sclater, who 

 pronounced it the same as ellenbechi and by Conover, who likewise 

 came to the same conclusion. 



Mackworth-Praed ^^ writes that ellenhecki is like psilolaemus but 

 grayer, less brown above, and darker gray below, size apparently 

 similar. He gives the wing measurements of fsilolaemus as 164-167 

 millimeters in males, 164 in a female. Both the present specimens 

 are larger than these psilolaemus^ each having a wing length of 174 

 millimeters. A female of psilolaemus examined is generally notice- 

 ably smaller than either of the two ellenhecki, and has a wing 165 

 millimeters long. The latter race is darker, more abundantly and 

 heavily marked on the breast, abdomen, and flanks than the former. 

 There can be no question but that these two forms are closely 

 allied (more closely than to any other race of the species) and may 

 be told from all the others by the heavily spotted throat, and the 

 reddish and fuscous bars on the distal parts of the remiges, the 

 proximal two-thirds of which are reddish. In the other races the 

 terminal third of the remiges is fuscous somewhat freckled with 

 reddish, but in these two the freckles are concentrated into bars. 



This form is the representative of psilolaemus in the very high 

 districts of Ethiopia (Arussi district to northern Shoa). The actual 

 localities from which it has been recorded are Saemana, the Arussi 

 Plateau, and Mount Albasso. Erlanger ^^ records it from Antoto, 

 but Conover writes me that Antoto birds are practically topotypical 

 of psilolaemus, and I must say that the Antoto bird seen by me is 

 certainly of that race. 



The male bird has the breast darker, the reddish patches on the 

 abdomen larger, and the black V-shaped abdominal markings less 

 numerous than the female, which is slightly darker above. The 

 measurements are as follows : male — wing 174, tail 81, culmen from 

 base 27 millimeters; female — wing 174, tail 83, culmen from base 

 26.5 millimeters. 



According to Mearns' field notes, this bird is abundant in the 

 heath zone up to 11,000 feet (3,300 meters). 



FRANCOLINUS AFRICANUS ARCHERI Sc!ater 



FrancoUnus africanus arcJieri Sclatek, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI. 48, 1927, p. 51: 

 Mount Daro, 7,000 feet (2,100 meters), east of Harrar. 



Specimens collected: 



Four female adults, 2 female immature, Bodessa, Ethiopia, May 

 21-28, 1912. 



«2Ibis, 1922, p. 117. 



esjoura. f. Ornith., 1905. p. 151. 



