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The immature plumage of electa is not yet known. A male from 

 Golba, Soddo, Ethiopia (Koviics collection) is in a late stage of the 

 postjnvenal molt. The only juvenal feathers left are on the breast, 

 abdomen, back, and wings. Thfe breast feathers are dull, pale earth 

 brown terminally banded with dirty white; those of the abdomen 

 are dull grayish somewhat washed with brownish; the back is dark 

 brown, the feathers narrowly tipped with buify brown, and the old 

 remiges are dark brown, tipped with rufous brown. A few dull 

 brownish feathers are still present on the crown, but the rest of the 

 feathers are bluish gray. The under wing coverts are still inclosed 

 in their sheaths. The outermost rectrices have more than the ordi- 

 nary amount of black on the basal portions of the outer webs; the 

 black extends halfway across, while in older birds it seldom amounts 

 to more than a third of the width of the outer web, and in some cases 

 is wholly restricted to the inner one. 



Adults vary to a considerable extent in the darkness of the back, 

 and the under wing coverts, but usually not enough to make it diffi- 

 cult to identify them subspecifically except in intermediate areas. 

 This is in contradiction to what Zedlitz ^^ found, as he wrote that his 

 specimens were not typical electa but reminded him of S. decipiens 

 griseiventris — quite a different bird, although superficially similar. 

 It may be that the two species hybridize occasionally and produce 

 intermediates or that each varies in the direction of the other. 

 Zedlitz examined 2 males and 3 females, including the type, while I 

 have seen 10 males and 15 females, including 3 topotj^pes. 



Zedlitz^® records the wing length of electa as 149-158 (male); 

 146-157 millimeters (female). The present series measure 148-160 

 (male) ; 144—160.5 millimeters (female). 



The male and female taken at Bodessa were apparently a mated 

 pair according to Mearns' field notes. 



STREPTOPELIA ROSEOGRISEA ARABICA (Neumann) 



Turtur roseogriseus arabious Nehjmann, Orn. Moiiatsb., vol. 12, 1904, p. 31 : 

 Lahej, Aden Protectorate, southwest Ar;il)ia. 



Spechnens collected: 



Male, Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 17, 1911. 



The single specimen obtained was collected b}- H. and F. von 

 Ziilow and obtained from them by the expedition. As far as I 

 know this is the only record for the species in Ethiopia, and consti- 

 tutes the most southwestern locality for the race arahica. 



In his original description of arahica, Neumann distinguished it 

 from typical roseogrisea by the fact that the under wing coverts are 



''Journ. f. Oniith., 1914, p. 651. 



