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Cohnnha and Turtwr^ but in its habits it is rather a pigeon than a 

 dove, keeping in flocks, and usually on the ground."' 



This species is rehitively scarce in collections and therefore it may 

 be worth while tabulating the measurements of these four specimens 

 and of two others in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Reiche- 

 now ^^ gives the following figures : Wing 220, tail 120-125, culmen 

 20, tarsus 27-28 millimeters. The present series is as follows. 



' Broken. 



The last specimen, unfortunately without data, is much larger 

 than any of the others, and is also more brownish and slightly paler 

 generally. The coloration, however, may be misleading as the 

 specimen was mounted and on exhibition for many years in the 

 Lafresnaye collection. 



The white-collared pigeon is a bird of the highlands. Blanford ^^ 

 writes that it was " * * * only seen on the highlands, in the tem- 

 perate region." Heuglin ®^ found it in eastern and central Ethiopia 

 between 6,000 and 10,000 feet (1,800 to 3,000 meters), but did not 

 meet with it west of Lake Tsana and south of Begemeder, and con- 

 sidered it absent in Bogosland as well. He found it common in 

 Hamasien, Akulo-Qusai, Wogara, Semien, and on the Adoa. Later 

 Jesse found it plentiful in northeastern Ethiopia at Ray-rayguddy 

 (a little distance north of Senafe) and Senafe at altitudes of from 

 6,158 to 7,400 feet.^° As far as I know it has not been taken at Lake 

 Tsana, the nearest record being Debra Markos (100 miles to the 

 south, altitude 8,000 feet) where Cheesman obtained it. Southward 

 its range extends through Shoa to Arussi-Gallaland. Ginir seems 

 to be the southeastern limit of its known range (Donaldson Smith 

 collection) and Djimma the most southwestern point at which it has 

 been taken (O. Neumann collection). 



According to Neumann ^^ this species occurs only on the hilltops, 

 and does not descend into the deep river gorges even in the highlands. 



«< Geol. and Zool. Abyss., 1870, p. 416. 

 «» Vog. Afrikas, vol. 1, p. 400. 

 «» Orn. N. O. Afr.. vol. 1, p. 1869, p. 826. 



""Reported by Finsch, Trans. Zool. See. Lend., vol. 7, 1S72 (not 1870 as given by 

 Relchcnow), p. 288. 



"Journ. f. Ornith., 1004, p. 344. 



