BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 



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One of the Morogoro birds (male) has the pectoral band very 

 narrow, but this is partly due to the fact that the plumage is fresh 

 and the white tips of the feathers of the lower breast have not been 

 worn oif . 



This species in quite similar to S. 7iielanopterus but is smaller, has 

 the primary under wing coverts and the greater upper wing coverts 

 gray (white in vielanopterus) . 



The small series available for study indicates considerable varia- 

 tion in size for the species, but, proportionately, not as much as in 

 coronatus. 



Locality 



Tanganyika Territory, Morogoro 



Do 



Kenya Colony, Thika and Athi Riv 



ers 



Uganda, Hima, Toro 



Ses 



9(?) 



Wing Tail 



178 

 173 



172 



178 



70. 5 

 69. 5 



65. 5 

 69.0 



Culmen 



23.0 

 22.0 



23. 5 



22.0 



To these measurements may be added the following of a male 

 from Telek Kiver, Sotik district, Kenya Colony. This bird I have 

 not seen, but the measurements were made years ago for the late 

 Doctor Mearns : Wing 170, tail 63, culmen 23 millimeters. 



The crown and occiput are darker in the single male examined 

 than in any of the females, but whether there is a constant sexual 

 difference I can not say. It seems doubtful, however, as the other 

 species of the genus present no such dimorphism. 



The Uganda specimen has the gonial portion of the mandible 

 bent to the left. It has the lower throat and breast somewhat duskier 

 than the other specimens. The Tanganyika birds have the white 

 forehead patch narrower posteriorly than do the ones from Kenya 

 Colony and Uganda. 



Besides the specimen preserved, this plover was seen as follows: 

 West of Ithanga Hills, August 28, 4 birds; Athi River, August 29 

 to September 2, 84 seen. 



STEPHANIBYX MELANOPTERUS MELANOPTERUS (Cretzschraar) 



Charadrms melcmopterus Cketzschmar, in Riipp. Atlas, p. 4G, pi. 31, 1829 : 

 Djedda, Arabia. 



Specimens collected : 



Three males, 2 females, Arussi Plateau, Ethiopia, February 14r-24, 

 1912. 



Soft parts : Iris yellow, eye ring vinaceous red ; bill black ; legs and 

 feet black tinged with red (in two birds) or base of tibiae dusky 

 vinaceous, feet brownish black tinged with vinaceous (one bird) ; 

 claws black. 



