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that reddish-lilac color is restricted to the throat in loHi and extends 

 over the entire breast in cavdatus. Van Someren ''^ draws attention 

 to the fact that larti is — 



* * * found in localities where C. c. caudatus occurs, and this not at a 

 period of migration, iu January, March, April, June, and August. The ques- 

 tion to be settled is, Are these birds stragglers from Somaliland or are they 

 resident, and should they not be reckoned a species? It seems somewhat 

 <l(tnbtful that the southern examples of loi'ii are really of that form, and not 

 intergrades between it and caudatus or even, possibly, immature caudatus. 

 Many intermediate looking birds are known, biit not a few of them appear 

 subadult. The two forms are clearly conspecific. 



This handsome roller is a common bird throughout its range. 

 Sclater ^^ does not definiteh'^ include the Belgian Congo in its range, 

 but the Museum of Comparative Zoology has a specimen from 

 Luvungi, and it has been collected in the Ruzizi Valley by Pauwels 

 and near Lake Kivu by Kandt, etc. It is common in the savannas 

 from Lake Tanganyika to the Katanga and the Kasai. 



Nine males have tlie following measurements: Wing, 160-173; 

 tail, 171-201 ; and culmen, 33.5-35 millimeters. 



Nines females present the following data: Wing 156-169, tail 171- 

 190, and culmen, 33-36.5 millimeters. 



CORACIAS NAEVIUS NAEVIUS Daudin 



Coracias tuicria Dai'uin. Traite. vol. '2. 1800, p. 2.18: Setiegal. 



/Speehne7is collected: 



One unsexed. Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, October 19, 1911. 



One male, Gada Bourca, Ethiopia, December 24, 1911. 



One male and one female. Ha wash River, Ethiopia, February 12, 

 1912. 



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



One unsexed, Ethiopia, March 2, 1912. 



One male, near Gardula, Ethiopia, March 29, 1912. 



One male and three females, Gato River near Gardula, Ethiopia, 

 March 31 to April 16, 1912. 



One male and one female, Bodessa, Ethiopia, May 21-27, 1912. 



One female, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 7, 1912. 



One male, Turturo, Ethio})ia, June 15, 1912. 



Besides the 15 birds listed above, 11 others of the typical form and 

 1 one of the southern race mosamhicm have been examined. The 

 so-called East African n^ce shai'pei is not distinct from naevius. This 

 leaves but the two forms which are distributed as follows : 



^ S.vst. Avium Ethiop.. 1924. p. 207. 

 « Nov. Zool., vol. 29. 1922, p. 73. 



