BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 177 



PISOBIA MINUTA (Leisler) 



Tringa minuta Lkisler, Nachtr. zu Bechst. Naturg. Dentschl., p. 74, 1812: 

 Near Hanau, Germany. 



Specimens collected: 



Male and female, Djibouti, French Somaliland, November 22, 1911. 



The present species is known to winter throughout the African 

 continent, but as far as I have been able to learn, it has not been 

 previously definitely recorded from French Somaliland. The record 

 carries no great significance, however, as the bird is known to be 

 abundant in Egypt, the Sudan, Arabia, and, in general, the whole 

 Eed Sea area. It has undoubtedly been taken or observed in French 

 Somaliland on previous occasions, but no published records are 

 known to me. It should be noted, however, that in his compre- 

 hensive survey of the bird life of southern Somaliland, Zedlitz " does 

 not list this sandpiper. However. Bowen ^ records it as abundant on 

 the Red Sea coast of the Sudan, not so very far from Djibouti. In 

 the intervening area of Eritrea it probably occurs, but there are no 

 published records. The nearest point to the south at which speci- 

 mens have been taken is Berbera, British Somaliland. The range 

 of this bird in the interior of northeastern Africa is also little known. 

 The published records for Ethiopia are from Zulla ^ Cialalaka, 

 Adua, and Gondar.^ 



In the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan it is better known. In northern 

 Kenya Colony Ogilvie-Grant "^ records it from Lake Rudolf, while 

 Van Someren ^^ records it from many places farther south. Mearns 

 noted three at Escarpment, on September 10, the last day of field 

 work of the Frick expendition. 



ACTITIS HYPOLEUCOS (Linnaeus) 



Tringa hypoleucos Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., eel. 10, vol. 1, p. 149, 1758: Europe; 

 restricted type locality, Sweden. 



/Specimens collected: 



Female, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, December 30, 1911. 

 One unsexed, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, January 1, 1912. 

 Male, Gato River near Gardula, Ethiopia, March 30, 1912. 

 Female, south end of Lake Rudolf, Kenya Colony, July 7, 1912. 

 Male, Tana River at mouth of Thika RiA^er, Kenya Colony, August 

 24, 1912. 



Male, Athi River near Juja farm, Kenj^a Colony, August 31, 1912. 



"Journ. f. Ornith., 1914. pp. G08-678. 



^ Cat. Sudan Birds, 1926, p. 64. 



» See Blanford, Geol. and Zool. Abyss., 1870, p. 433. 



" Reiclienow, Vog. Afr., vol. 1, pp. 2:^3-234. 



^"Ibis, 1901, p. 297. 



"Nov. Zool., vol. 29, 1922, pp. 19-20. 



