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BULLETIN" 15 3, UNITED STATES NTATIONAL MUSEUM 



Locality 



Sex 



Wing 



TaU 



Oulmen 



Tarsus 



Kenya Colony — Continued. 



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



Mount Ke'ni'a", " 'i6~700 'feet 



(3,200 meters) 



Mount Kenia, 8,500 feet 



(2,550 meters) 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Mweru 



Mori j o 



Morroshura 



Lake Ngunga 



Upper Guari Nyaki 



Do 



Cameroon: 



Bitye 



Lakale 



200. 

 206. 



199. 

 202. 

 205. 

 200.0 



200. 

 198. 

 207.0 

 204. 

 192.0 

 207.0 

 198. 

 197. 



200.0 

 207.0 



95.0 



94.0 



89.0 

 95.0 

 87.0 



92. 5 

 90. 

 9L0 

 96.0 

 95. 



93. 

 96.0 

 90. 

 95. 



92.0 

 94.0 



28.0 



29.0 



27.0 

 30.0 



31.0 

 30. 5 

 30.0 

 29.0 

 29.0 

 28. 5 

 28.0 

 28.0 

 28. 5 



3L 5 

 34.0 



19. 5 

 17.0 



19.0 



19. 5 

 18.0 



20. 5 

 20. 

 18. 

 19.5 

 19.0 

 19.0 

 19.0 

 18.0 

 18. 5 



21.0 

 20.5 



Aside from the specimens collected, Mearns noted 40 of these 

 parrots at Meru on August 9, 300 at Meru and Kilindini on August 

 10, and 200 at Escarpment, September 4-12. 



POICEPHALUS FLAVIFRONS FLAVIFRONS (Ruppell) 



Pionus flavifrons Rupphxl, Syst. Uebers., pp. 81, 84, pi. 31, 1815 : Shea. 



Specimens collected: 



One male, Arussi Plateau, 9,200 feet (2,760 meters), Ethiopia, Feb- 

 ruary 23, 1912. 



One male, Botola, Sidamo, Ethiopia, March 5, 1912. 



One male, two females, Aletta, Sidamo, Ethiopia, March 8-10, 

 1912. 



One male, Ethiopia, March 2, 1912. 



One female, immature. Loco, Ethiopia, March 13, 1912. 



One male, Barka Forest, Ethiopia, November 5, 1904. (P. Zaphiro 

 collection.) 



The material available for study consists of 12 specimens, all of 

 which are typical flavifrons. All but one are adult, and have bright 

 yellow areas of variable extent on the front and sides of the head, 

 usually surrounding the eye, and, in one male (U.S.N.M. 243667, 

 Botola), extending backward from the eye upon the sides of the head 

 and neck for a distance of 30 millimeters. Neumann ^* writes that 

 some individuals have only the forehead and anterior part of the 



"Journ. f. Ornith., 1904, p. 375. 



