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Ethiopia. According to Zedlitz ^* this bird occurs in northwestern 

 Eritrea (one specimen from Keren) and in the Tigre and Amhara 

 provinces of Ethiopia. No specimens are listed and no observations 

 recorded, however, for the Abyssinian provinces. Tliis distribution 

 is based on his map ^^ as in the text he merely writes that it occurs in 

 regions I and II on the map. 



In Kenya Colony ^^ this bird is not as common as C. hiaticula 

 tundrae and is almost absent from the coastal areas. Zedlitz ^* also 

 suggests that the bird is absent along the coasts of Eritrea and the 

 Danakil area. In Egypt it is very common. The abundance of 

 the bird in Egypt and its scarcity along the Red Sea and Indian 

 Ocean coasts of Africa suggest that the valley of the Nile is the 

 migratory highway followed by this plover. Yet it has been taken 

 at Aden, Arabia, and on the island of Socotra, but these records are 

 probably of birds journejdng south from Asia rather than Europe. 



Mearns found this species in great numbers at Djibouti, so it ap- 

 pears that migrants cross over at the south end of the Red Sea, even 

 if few actually migrate along that body of water. 



CHARADRIUS ALEXANDRINUS SEEBOHMI Hartert and Jackson 



Charadrhis alexandrinus scehohmi Hartert and Jackson, Ibis. 1915, p. 529: 

 Aripo, N. Ceylon. 



Specimens collected: 



Two males and one female, Djibouti, French Somaliland, Novem- 

 ber 22, 1911. 



These three birds agree more nearly with the description of see- 

 hohmi than with any other race, although they have larger bills than 

 seehohmi. I have compared them with a series of alexandrinus and 

 of dealhatus. The present race has a very remarkable distribution, 

 quite comparable to, but not as extensive as, that of Droma-s ardeola. 

 It is entirely confined to the coasts of the Indian Ocean from Ceylon 

 to the mouth of the Red Sea (Somaliland coast). In Africa its 

 range is restricted, as far as known, to the coast from Massawa, 

 Eritrea, to Djibouti, French Somaliland. The birds of southern 

 Somaliland are probably alexandrinus^'' as are also the birds of 

 Egypt, Syria, and Palestine.'^ It is not known if seehohmi is resi- 

 dent in the Somali coast or not. All the specimens taken are winter 

 birds. 



The birds measure as follows: Wing (male) 105-107.5, (female) 

 106; tail (male) 46-47, (female) 43.5; culmen (male) 15-17, 



"Journ. f. Oriiith., 1910, p. 309. 



B5 Idem, pi. 8. 



w Meinortzhagen, Ibis, 1922, p. 72. 



" See Zedlitz, Journ. f. Ornith., 1914, p. 627. 



'8 See Meinertzhagen, Ibis, 1922, p. 72. 



