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The races found in eastern Africa are as follows: 



1. jS. c. capicola. — South Africa east to Natal and Zululand, north 

 to Transvaal. 



2. S. c. tropica. — From the northern Transvaal, and Mozambique 

 north through eastern Tanganyika Territory (west of the Rift 

 Valley except in the southern part of the territory where it extends 

 far to the eastward) to Uganda, east to Mount Elgon and north to 

 Mount Kenia and the highlands of the interior of southern Kenya 

 Colony (about 5,000 feet, or 1,500 meters). 



3. S. c. anceps. — From Kilosa and Dodoma, central Tanganyika 

 Territory, east of the Rift Valley, west of the coastal areas north to 

 southern Kenya Colony (below 5,000 feet) but not in the low coastal 

 belt. 



. 4. S. G. somalica. — Coastal districts of East Africa from the 

 Pangani River north to southern Somaliland, Jubaland, inland in 

 Kenya Colony to the Taru Desert, the Indunumara Mountains, north 

 to Hor and extreme southern Ethiopia (east of Lake Stefanie, and 

 at Mar Mora). 



5. S. c. electa. — Ethiopia, from northeastern Gallaland through 

 the Arussi country to the Shoan Lake region. 



6. S. c. hilgerti. — None seen by me; said to occur in northern 

 Somaliland. 



Recently Grote ^^ has described a pigeon from the eastern Belgian 

 Congo (Kisenyi, Lake Kivu) which he considers as a race of Strep- 

 topelia vinacea, and which he calls dryas. The known distribution 

 of S. vinacea makes it seem very unlikely that the species occurs as 

 far south as Lake Kivu and the description of dryas as well as its 

 geographical location indicates that it is really a form of S. capi- 

 cola — a richly colored form, if separable from tropica by its deeper 

 coloration — but not a race of S. vinacea. I have seen no material 

 from the Kivu region and therefore can not form an opinion as to 

 the validity of dtyas. However, in support of this form, it should 

 be noted that Gyldenstolpe ^^ collected two males of S. capicola in 

 the eastern Congo, one at Sidabo, Ituri district, west of Lake Albert, 

 and another at Masidongo, west of Ruwenzori, northwest of Lake 

 Edward. The latter place is about 220 kilometers north of the type 

 locality of dryas^ but Gyldenstolpe writes that the Masidongo speci- 

 men is exceptionally bright colored on the lower parts of the body, 

 especially on the breast. It may therefore belong to the new form 

 named by Grote, and if so. would extend the range of dryas over a 

 considerable area. The bird from Sidabo is not said by its collector 

 to be richly colored and may therefore be assumed to be like typical 

 tropica. 



«* Verh. Orn. Ges. Bayern, vol. 17, 1927, p. 205. 

 »« Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Ilandlgr., 1924, p. 311. 



