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considered 'pulcher a synonym of macrourus and suggested the name 

 syntactus for the northeast African birds. Claude Grant *^ was the 

 first to compare Senegalese and Ethiopian birds and found them 

 identical, and correctly concluded that fulcher was valid and syn- 



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Figure 10. — Distribution of Colius macrourus in northeastern Africa 1, 

 CoLius macrourus macrourus; 2, Colius maceoukus pulcheb ; 3, Colius ma- 

 crourus GRISEOGULAKIS 



tactus was not. Van Someren ^* found that Eritrean birds are paler 

 than those from Ethiopia and assumed that the former were to be 

 considered as syntacttos. I have seen no Eritrean material and can 

 not form an opinion on this question, but even if birds from there 

 should be found to be separable, the name syntactus would not be 



« Ibis, 1915, pp. 405-406. 

 " Nov. Zool., vol. L'9, 1922, 



pp. 71-72. 



