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" * * * shot with their parents show quite clearly that this 

 •bird has nothing to do Avith L. Jeacooephalus. The young are 

 coloured like adults, with the exception of the tail, which is suffused 

 with black on the outer edges of the webs." The bird collected by 

 Mearns on the Thika River is a young one; the one from the Tana 



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Figure J6. — DisxRiBrTiON of Lybh s albicaudus : 1, Iakius albicaddus sexex ; 2, 

 Lybius albicaudus albicaudus 



River is in an intermediate stage, the middle rectrices being pure 

 v^hite. With regard to alhieaudus I may say that the juvenal and 

 adults are alike in having the abdomen dark fuscous streaked some- 

 what Avith Avhite and that the tail feathers are pure Avhite in adults, 

 laterally margined Avith dusky gray in young birds. There can, then, 

 be no cause for confusinir these three birds. 



