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but usually in more open, parklike savanna country or along wooded 

 stream banks. If a fruit-bearing tree be growing in the middle of 

 a wide expanse of treeless country, the pigeons will be found on it 

 just as well as on others less isolated. Van Someren ^^ writes that it 

 " * * * is an undoubted fact * * * that in a given locality 

 where certain fruit trees come into bearing with regularity or fixed 

 seasons that one can count on green pigeons being there at that 

 particular time. Their presence is thus governed largely by the food 

 supply." 



In Ethiopia this species has been found chiefly in the subtropical 

 belt, more rarely in the highlands, and not in the hills above 9,000 

 feet (2,700 meters). Blanford^" found it at altitudes of from 4,000 

 to 6,000 feet (1,200 to 1,800 meters) in the passes below Senafe, but 

 in the lower Lebka valley it was seen as low as 2,000 feet (600 

 meters). Neumann ^^ found it up to approximately 9,000 feet (2,700 

 meters), the highest altitude from which it has been reported. 

 Erlanger ^^ observed it chiefly in valleys covered with rich vegeta- 

 tion, but also, less commonly, in the highlands. The species has been 

 found at Ela Bered (between Asmara and Cheren), the extreme 

 northern tip of the Tigre district, and southward across Ethiopia to 

 the southern part of the Abaya Lakes district, southern Gallaland 

 and into Kenya Colony, where it occurs only in Jubaland and the 

 northern frontier, extending westward through the valley of the 

 Sobat to the Nile system and thence to the northern and eastern 

 provinces of Uganda. 



At Aletta, March 7-13, Mearns saw 10 of these birds, in addition 

 to the 1 collected; near Gato River, March 29 to May 17, he saw 4 

 individuals. 



VINAGO CALVA BREVICERA (Hartert and Goodson) 



Treron calva hrevicera Hartert and Goodson, Nov. Zool., voL 25, p. 353, 1918: 

 Moscbi, Kilimanjaro district. 



Specimens collected: 



Female, Tana River, above camp No. 4, Kenya Colony, August 18, 

 1912. 



Male and female. Tana River, camp No. 5, Kenya Colony, August 

 19-20, 1912. 



Female, Escarpment, 7,390 feet (2,200 meters), Kenya Colony, 

 September 9, 1912. 



Soft parts (sexes alike) : Iris blue, with an outer ring of brownish 

 red ; bill yellowish on basal half, greenish white on distal half ; feet 

 red ; claws bluish gray or pale blue, dusky at the tips. 



s'Jouru. f. Ornith., 1904, p. 341. 



*» Idem, 1905, p. 111. 



8»Journ. E. Afr. and Uganda Nat. Hist. Soc, January, 1928, p. 173. 



»» Geol. and Zool. Abyss., 1870, pp. 41S-419. 



