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average one, and the extremes do not conform with geography. The 

 size variations may be judged from the following table in which 



The range of fraenatus as given by Sclater ^® is incomplete. He 

 gives it as " Southern Abyssinia to Kenya Colony," but it is known 

 from extreme northern Ethiopia (Tigre district), Eritrea, and 

 Somaliland south through Kenya Colony to Kilimanjaro, and practi- 

 cally to the Tanganyikan boundary in the Ukamba and Kikuyu 

 districts, and probably extends into Uganda as well. 



According to Erlanger ^° this nightjar is an inhabitant of the 

 lowlands where it lives in the steppe country and the Acacia wilder- 

 ness, and also in the deeper valleys in the mountainous parts of the 

 country. 



According to Mearns, the female was making high flights in the 

 air at daybreak when shot. 



CAPRIMULGUS FOSSEI APATELIUS Neumann 



Caprimulgus apatelius Neumann, Orn. Monat.sb., vol. 12, p. 143, 1904; Galena 

 River at Abaya Lake, Southern Ethiopia. 



Specimens collected: 



Female, Ourso, Ethiopia, September 30, 1911. 

 Male, Bilan, Ethiopia, December 18, 1911. 

 Female, northwest Abaya Lake, Ethiopia, March 17, 1912. 

 Female, Black Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 24, 1912. 

 Male and female, Anole village, Ethiopia, May 18, 1912. 

 Male and female, Turturo, Ethiopia, June 15-16, 1912. 

 Male, 18 miles south of Malele, Kenya Colony, July 28, 1912. 

 Male, Tana River at mouth of Thika River, Kenya Colony, August 

 25, 1912. 



'•-■ Syst. Avium Ethiop., 1924, p. 249. 

 "".loiirn. f. Ornith., lOOS, p. 497. 



