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Sclater ^^^ gives the range of guinea as south through Kenya Colony 

 to Kilimanjaro. This, in spite of the fact that the type locality of 

 longipennis (which he synonymizes with guinea) is Ugogo, Tan- 

 ganyika Territory. The range should be extended southward to 

 include the Unyamyembi and Unyamwesi districts (Tabora, Ulugu, 

 Saranda, Suna, Irangi, etc.). 



This pigeon was met with in the Endoto Mountains, July 21-24, 

 where 100 were seen; Er-re-re, July 25, 40 birds; Lekiundu River, 

 August 4—8, over 1000 noted; Meru swamp G miles from Meru, 

 August 9, 10 birds seen ; Kilindini and Meru, August 10, 200 birds ; 

 and along the government trail to Tharaka, August 11, 40 birds 

 noted. 



It was also seen a few times between Bada Bourka and Adis Abeba. 

 Great numbers were seen coming to the crater springs at Bilan to 

 drink. 



COLUMBA ARQUATRIX ARQUATRIX Temminck 



Columba arquatrix Temminck, Pigeous, Colombes, p. 11, pi. 5, 1809 : Anteni- 

 quoi, i. e. Knysna, Cape Province. 



Speciinens collected: 



Female adult, near Malka, Ethiopia, March 3, 1912. 



Soft parts: Iris, dark brown; bill, bare skin around eye, feet, and 

 claws, yellow. 



Bonaparte ^^ described the speckled pigeon of Ethiopia under the 

 name Columha arquatricula. Eight years later Von Heuglin ^ used 

 this name for the present bird, but other writers agreed that the 

 Abyssinian speckled pigeon was the same as Colwnha arqtuitrix of 

 South Africa and used the latter name as it had 45 years' priority. 

 In 1905 Oberholser, in reporting on Doctor Abbott's Kilimanjaro 

 collections - separated the birds of Kilimanjaro from the typical 

 southern ones and for the former he revived Bonaparte's name. Ac- 

 cording to Oberholser, the northern birds differ from southern ones by 

 larger size, and by smaller, much less numerous spots on the under- 

 parts, and these confined chiefly to the upper breast, while in southern 

 examples they are spread as thickly over the lower breast and middle 

 of the abdomen. 



For the present study I have assembled a series of 22 specimens 

 from South Africa, Tanganyika Territory, Kenya Colony, British 

 Somaliland, and Ethiopia, and find that arquatincula can not be 



»8 Syst. Avium Ethiop., 1924, p. 161, 



»» Consp. Av., vol. 2, p. 50, 1854 : Abyssinia. 



1 Journ. f. Ornlth., 1862, p. 306. 



2 I'roc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 28, p. 841. 



