BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 125 



PTERNISTES LEUCOSCEPUS HOLTERMULLERI Erlanger 



Pternistes leucoscepus holtenniillcri Eklanger, Oiu. IMonatsb., vol. 12, p. 98, 

 1904 : Lake Abaya, Ethiopia. 



Specimens collected: 



One male, 2 females, White Lake Abaya, east side, Ethiopia, March 

 18-19, 1912. 



One female, Wliite Lake Abaya, southeast side, Ethiopia, March 

 21, 1912. 



One female, The Bridge, Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 23, 1912. 



One male, White Lake Abaya, south side, Ethiopia, March 27, 

 1912. 



One male. Black Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 27, 1912. 



Two males, near Gardula, Ethiopia, March 26-27, 1912. 



Seven males, five females, Gato River, near Gardula, Ethiopia, 

 April 1-28, 1912. 



Two males, two females, Sagon River, May 19 to June 6, 1912. 



One young female, one adult male, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 8-9, 

 1912. 



One male. Mar Mora, Ethiopia, June 14, 1912. 



One adult male, one immature female, Turturo, Ethiopia, June 

 16-17, 1912. 



Three adult females, Yebo, Ethiopia, June 20-21, 1912. 



Immature male, immature female, Malata, Ethiopia, June 22, 1912. 



Soft parts : 



1. Juvenal male: Iris brown; bill plumbeous black tipped with 

 horn color ; tarsi slightly reddish brown ; feet and claws olive brown. 



2. Adult male : Iris hazel ; sides of base of mandible, upper edge 

 of nostril, and naked sides of face red, throat yellow slightly tinged 

 with red next to the bill (chin) ; feet, spurs, and claws black. 



3. Adult female : Iris brown ; bill brownish black ; upper edge of 

 nostril, naked sides of face, chin, and upper throat brick red, lower 

 throat yellow. The color of the upper throat is variable as another 

 female had " only the chin * * * slightly marked with red." 



This race has the dark margins of the feathers of the breast much 

 grayer than those of the abdomen, and typical examples may be 

 easily identified by this character. Southern specimens (south of 

 Sagon River to Kenya border) are more or less intermediate be- 

 tween holtei'tnulleri and muhatned-hen-dbdullah and are less easily 

 told. However, the specimens from this intermediate territory ex- 

 amined are nearer to the former than to the latter race. Farther 

 east along the Ethiopian-Kenyan border, the birds are probably 

 nearer to the latter form, but I have seen none from there. 



