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This plumage is retained for about a year when it is partly 

 replaced (all but the remiges and rectrices) by the immature plum- 

 age which resembles the adult stage but has the reddish color 

 present chiefly on the forehead, and only a little of it on the bend of 

 the wing and the tibiae. Furthermore, the red is more of an orange 

 red in immature birds and deeper red in adults. Shortly after this 

 plumage is acquired the remiges and rectrices are replaced by dark 

 fuscous-black ones which are retained through the first adult 

 plumage. As far as I can discover, the peculiar rectrices described 

 by Granvik ^^ are not normal, even if his description be applied to 

 the upper tail coverts rather than the tail feathers themselves. 



In adult birds the extent of the red on the head is very variable. 

 In some it extends back to the anterior margin of the eye, in others 

 to the middle of the eye, while in one it actually extends beyond the 

 posterior end of the eye. Granvik ^^ also records such an individual. 



This bird occurs chiefly in the highlands and mountains of 

 southern Kenya Colony and northern Tanganyika Territory. It 

 does not seem to have been taken north of Mount Kenia, Sigeyo on 

 Lake Baringo, Mau, Kijabe, Burnt Forest, Elgeyu Forest, Aberdare 

 Mountains, Eldoret, and Mount Elgon, or south of Great Arusha 

 (near Mount Meru). It is rather strange that it has not been found 

 on Mount Kilimanjaro itself, although it occurs nearby in the lower 

 forests at Taveta, Chala Mountain, and Lake Jipe. It has been 

 taken at altitudes of as much as 10,700 feet (3,200 meters). (Mount 

 Kenia, E. A. Mearns, Roosevelt Expedition.) 



Inasmuch as size is of systematic interest in this species, the 

 following table may be of use to students. 



Locality 



Sex 



Wing 



Tail Culmen Tarsus 



Kenya Colony: 



Escarpment, 7,390 feet (2,200 



Fay's farm "8, 000 "feet '(2, 400 



meters) 



Do 



Do 



Mount Kenia, 10,700 feet 



(3,200 meters) 



Do 



Mount Kenia, 8,500 feet 



(2,550 meters) 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Mount Kenia, 7,500 feet 



(2,200 meters) 



Morijo 



Morroshura 



206.0 



200.0 

 204. 

 206.0 



200.0 

 202.0 



197.0 

 198.0 

 200.0 

 196.0 

 195.0 



195.0 

 201. 5 

 197.0 



98. 



95.0 



88. 5 

 88.0 



90. 5 

 93.0 



89.0 

 93. 

 93.0 

 88.0 

 92. 



89. 

 95.0 

 90.0 



28. 



27.5 



27. 5 



29. 5 



28.0 

 27.0 



28. 5 

 27. 5 

 28.5 



27.0 



28. 5 



28. 5 



29. 5 



20.0 



19.0 

 19.0 

 19.0 



20.0 

 20.0 



20.0 

 19.0 



19. 5 



20. 

 19.0 



19.0 

 18.0 

 18. 5 



"Journ. f, Ornitli., 1923, Sonderheft, pp. 72-73. 



