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Ade, June 12-14, 150 noted; Mar Mora, June 14, 20; Turturo, June 

 15-17, 8 birds seen; Meru swamp, equator, August 9, 20; Kilindini 

 by way of Meru, August 10, 50; on the government trail to Tharaka, 

 August 11, 10 birds. 



In Ethiopia the breeding season is from January to the end of 

 May, according to Erlanger.^° 



STREPTOPELIA SEMITORQUATA SEMITORQUATA (Ruppell) 



Columba. seniitorqiiata Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., Vog., p. G6, pi. 23, fig. 2, 

 1837 : Turanta Mountains, Ethiopia. 



Specimens collected: 



Two females, Gada Bourca, Ethiopia, December 25, 1911. 



Two males and one female, Hawash River, Ethiopia, February 

 10-11, 1912. 



One female. Loco, Ethiopia, March 14, 1912. 



One male and two females, Gato River near Gardula, Ethiopia, 

 April 6-17, 1912. 



One male and one female, Sagon River, Ethiopia, June 5, 1912 

 (mated pair). 



One female, Bodessa, Ethiopia, June 6, 1912. 



One male. Tana River, Kenya Colony, August 15, 1912. 



One male and one female. Escarpment, 7,390 feet, Kenya Colony, 

 September 9, 1912. 



Soft parts (sexes alike) : Iris, orange red; bill, plumbeous black; 

 naked area surrounding eye, gray mixed with vinaceous; feet, 

 vinaceous; claws, vinaceous at base, grayish brown at end. 



This dove has two recognizable forms — the typical race which oc- 

 curs in eastern Africa from the Sudan and northern Ethiopia (also 

 Yemen province of Arabia) south through the interior of Kenya 

 Colony, Uganda, the eastern Belgian Congo, Tanganyika Territory, 

 Mozambique, and Nyasaland to South Africa (particularly Natal, 

 Zululand, Basutoland, and the eastern Transvaal, but also occurring 

 farther west), and also in West Africa from Senegal to Angola; 

 and a small, pale form minor in the coastal areas of Kenya Colony 

 and in southern Somaliland. Three other forms have been de- 

 scribed, none of which is valid. Erlanger -° separated the birds of 

 southern EthiojMa (Harrar and Shoa) and tropical East Africa from 

 the northern tj-pical ones as iiitennedia on the basis of somewhat 

 darker brown color on the upper parts and smaller size (wings 177- 

 190 millimeters, while in semitorquata 187-198 millimeters). Asmaj'' 

 be seen from the measurements given below the size difference does 

 not hold. The color likewise is variable without regard to geography. 



"Journ. f. Ornitli., 1905, pp. 119-120. 

 =«Idem, p. 124. 



