224 BULLETIN 15 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



STREPTOPELIA DECIPIENS PERSPICILLATA (Fischer and Reichenow) 



Turtu/r perspicillata Fischer and Keichenow, Jouni. f. Oriilth., voL 32, p. 179, 

 1884 : Nguruman, Masailand. 



Specwiens collected: 



Female, Reishat, Lake Rudolf, Kenya Colony, May 25, 1912. 



This specimen agrees perfectly with six from the Dodoma, Kilosa 

 district of Tanganyika Territory. This race and elegans are the two 

 lightest of all the forms and are, on that account, easily recognized. 

 The present form is larger and very slightly darker than elegans 

 but otherwise very similar. 



Considerable variation occurs in the coloration of the crown and 

 nape. Some of the Tanganyikan birds have the entire crown and 

 nape gray like the forehead, others have it suffused with pinkish as 

 does the present individual. Two birds from Kisumu, Kavirondo 

 Gulf, are very different however, but can not be considered any- 

 thing but intergrades between fersficillata and permista. They are 

 generally darker like the latter, more vinaceous on the throat and 

 breast, and have the nape, occiput and hind part of the crown up to 

 the middle of the eyes deep vinaceous pink, markedly different from 

 the gray of the forehead. In size they agree with perspicillata. 



The under tail coverts are also variable, the Kisunni birds having 

 them quite dark grayish, while the Rudolf and Tanganyika speci- 

 mens have the gray reduced in extent and lighter, the feathers being 

 chiefly composed of the broad white edges, 



Berlioz ^^ records a specimen of perspiciUata from Turkanaland 

 which agrees in every respect with the one listed above except in 

 size. It has a bill 2 millimeters smaller. His bird, a male, has 

 a wing length of 156 millimeters, while Mearns' specimen measures 

 168.5 millimeters. These tw^o records constitute the northernmost 

 captures of the race. Judging by the small size of the bird Berlioz 

 lists, it seems as though it may be intermediate between permista 

 and the present form. His bird came from west of Lake Rudolf 

 while Mearns' is the first, and as far as I know, the only one taken 

 east of the lake, a region in which elegans is the dominant race. 



STREPTOPEUA CAPICOLA SOMALICA (Erlanger) 



Turtiir dumrircHiilH somaUciis Erlanger. .Jouni. f. Oriiitli., vol. 53, p. 127, 

 1905: Sarigo, southern Somaliland. 



Speci7nens collected: 



One male. East Lake Stefanie, Ethiopia, May 30, 1912. 



One female. Mar Mora, Ethiopia, June 14, 1912. 



One male and two females, 18 miles southwest of Hor, Kenya 

 Colony, July 1-2, 1912. 



"Bull. Miis. d'rilst Nat. Paris, vol. 28, 1922, p. 394. 



