BIEDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 231 



The Sudan specimen exceeds in size by 3 millimeters the largest 

 measurement recorded by Neumann. 



STIGMATOPELIA SENEGALENSIS AEQUATORIALIS (Erlanger) 



Turttir sencgalcnsis aequatorialis Erlanger, Orn. Monatsb., 1904, p. 98: 

 Menaballa, Ethiopia. 



SpeciTTiens collected. 



Five male adults, one female adult, one unsexed, Dire Daoua, 

 Ethiopia, November 28, to December 22, 1911. 



One female adult, Sadi Malka, Ethiopia, January 28, 1912. 



One male adult, Gato Eiver near Gardula, Ethiopia, April 12, 

 1912. 



One male adult, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 8, 1912. 



Four male adults, one male immature, Wobok, Ethiopia, June 18, 

 1912. 



One female, immature. Lake Rudolf, Kenya Colony, July 11, 

 1912. 



Two male adults, Indunumara Mountains, Kenya Colony, July 

 14-16, 1912. 



One female adult, Tharaka District, 2,000 feet, Kenya Colony, 

 August 14, 1912. 



One male adult, Tana River camp No. 3, Kenya Colony, August 

 16, 1912. 



One female adult. Tana River camp No. 6, Kenya Colony, August 

 21, 1912. 



Soft parts: Iris, brown; bill, olivaceous black; feet, vinaceous; 

 claws, olivaceous black. 



Like most other African doves, the taxonomy of the present 

 species has been dealt with in a variety of ways. The races have 

 been reviewed by Erlanger *^ who separated the birds of northeast, 

 east. South, and west Africa from the typical Senegambian ones 

 on the basis of the pinker, less reddish coloration of the breast, 

 head, and upper back, and grayer, less brownish rump color in the 

 former, which he called aequatorialis. 



Some five years later, Zedlitz ^^ wrote that Erlanger had ex- 

 amined only one specimen of typical senegalensis and that with 

 a longer series he (Zedlitz) could find no constant differences be- 

 tween the two races. Grant *^ likewise concluded that aequatorialis 

 could not be maintained, and recognized only senegalensis from the 

 African continent south of the Sahara, aegyptiaca from Egypt and 



«Journ. f. Ornith., 1905, pp. 116-118. 

 "Idem, 1910, pp. 341-343. 

 " Ibis, 1915, pp. 43-44. 



