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roon and that Sakbayeme birds are true piscator. If not, 

 ohscurafus is doubtfully distinct. 



CORYTHAIXOIDES LEUCOGASTER (Ruppell) 



CMzaerliis leucogaster Ruppell, Mus. Senck., vol. 3, p. 27, 1842, South 

 Ethiopia. 



/Specimens collected: 



Male, Ourso, Ethiopia, September 13, 1911 (A. Ouellard collection). 



Male and female, Ourso, Ethiopia, October 12, 1911 (A. Ouellard 

 collection). 



Male, ToUo, Ethiopia, December 15, 1911. 



Male, Moulu, Ethiopia, December 17, 1911. 



Two males and one female, Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 

 17-21, 1911 (Von Ziilow collection). 



Female, Duletcha, Ethiopia, January 24, 1912. 



Two males, Sadi Malka, Ethiopia, February 3, 1912. 



Male and female, Hawash River, Ethiopia February 10-12, 1912. 



One male and two females. Black Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 

 19-26, 1912. 



Three males and 2 females, Gato River near Gardula, Ethiopia, 

 March 31 to May 2, 1912. 



Four females, Sagon River, Ethiopia, June 3-4, 1912. 



Male and female. Mar Mora, Ethiopia, June 7-14, 1912. 



Male, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 10, 1912. 



Male and female, Endoto Mountains, south, Kenya Colony, July 

 24, 1912. 



Male, 24 miles south of Malele, Kenya Colony, July 29, 1912. 



Male, Tana River, 1,200 feet (360 meters), Kenya Colony, August 

 14, 1912. 



Female, Tana River, camp 6, Kenya Colony, August 22, 1912. 



Soft parts ; male : Iris, hazel ; bill and feet, blackish ; claws, black. 

 Female : Iris, brown to grayish brown ; feet, brownish black to black- 

 i.-h; claws, black; bill, yellowish green in adult, blackish in young 

 birds. 



In studying this species I have examined a series of 58 birds (34 

 males, 24 females) distributed as follows : Ethiopia, 15 males and 13 

 females; British Somaliland 2 males and 1 female; Kenya Colony, 

 18 males and 10 females ; Tanganyika Territory 1 male and 1 female. 



Neumann ^^ writes that he can find no difference between Abyssin- 

 ian specimens and examples from East Africa. Van Someren " on 

 the other hand, finds that specimens from Kenya Colony are, on the 



"Journ. f. Ornith., 1904, \,. 378. 

 "Nov^. Zool., vol. 29, 1922, p. 49. 



