BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 



329 



18-26, 124 noted; near Gardula, March 26-29, 50; Gato River, March 

 29 to May 17, 1,000 seen; Bodessa and Sagon River, May 18 to 

 June 6, 80; El Ade, June 12-14, 10 seen; Mar Mora, June 15, 10 

 seen; Turturo, June 15-17, 10 birds; Anole, June 17, 20 noted; 

 Wobok, June 18, 40; near Saru, June 19, 25 seen; Yebo, June 20, 

 20 birds; Karsa Barecha, June 21, 10 birds noted. 



COLIUS STRIATUS HILGERTI Zcdlitz 



Colius striafus hlhjerti Zedlitz, Orn, Monatsb., 1910, p. 58: Harrar. 

 Specimens collected: 



Four females. Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 21-22, 1911. 

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

 One female, Hawash River, above Sadi Malka, Ethiopia, Febru- 

 ary 9, 1912. 



One female, Serri, Upper Hawash, Ethiopia, February 13, 1912. 

 One male, one female, Arussi Plateau, Ethiopia, February 17, 1912. 



The last two birds listed were collected in a thicket of Hypericum 

 sp. at an altitude of 9,000 feet (2,700 meters). The four from Dire 

 Daoua were collected by H. and F. von Ziilow. The measurements 

 of this series are as follows : 



COLIUS LEUCOCEPHALUS TURNERI Van Soracrcn 



Colius Icucocephalus turner i Van Someken, Bull. Brit. Orn. CI., vol. 40, p. 27, 

 1919 : Northern Guaso Nyiro. 



Specimens collected: 



Five adult males, 18 miles south of Malele, Kenya Colony, July 

 29, 1912. 



Two females (= male adult), 24 miles south of Malele, Kenya 

 Colony, July 29, 1912. 



The white-headed mouse bird is one of the two most restricted 

 species of its family as far as its geographical distribution is con- 

 cerned, the other being castanotus of Benguella. While the latter 



