BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AIS^D KENYA COLONY 335 



COLIUS MACROURUS PULCHER Neumann 



CoUus macrourus pulcher Netjmann, Journ. f. Ornith., 1900, p. 190: Teita. 



/Specimens collected: 



One female adult, near Gardula, Ethiopia, March 29, 1912. 



Three male adults, one unsexed, Gato Kivernear Gardula, Ethiopia, 

 April 12 to May 2, 1912. 



One male adult, one female young, Bodessa, Ethiopia, May 25-27, 

 1912. 



One male adult, one female adult, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 10, 1912. 



Three female adults, Hor, latitude 3° 19' N., Kenya Colony, June 

 28-30, 1912. 



One female adult, Dussia, latitude 3° N., Kenya Colony, July 2, 

 1912. 



One male adult. Lake Rudolf, Kenya Colony, July 6, 1912. 



One male adult, 25 miles southeast Lake Rudolf, Kenya Colony, 

 July 12, 1912. 



One male young, Endoto Mountains, Ken^-a Colony, July 23, 1912. 



One male adult, one female adult, Lekiundu River, Kenya Colony, 

 August 8, 1912. 



One male adult, Tharaka district, 2,000 feet, Kenya Colony, August 

 13. 1912. 



Two male adults, one female adult. Tana River, camp 6, Kenya 

 Colony, August 21, 1912. 



Two adults, unsexed, no locality or date. 



Soft parts: Of one adult male Mearns noted — iris dark red; naked 

 space around eye and base of bill vinaceous red, bill with maxilla 

 broadlj' tipped with black with narrow proximal border of blue; 

 mandible black except sides of base; feet vinaceous anteriorly, flesh 

 color posteriorly. While of another adult male, his notes read — iris 

 hazel ; bill red, broadly tipped with black ; naked sides of face vina- 

 ceous; feet vinaceous; claws black. The juvenal males had dull red 

 feet and green bills. 



The range and characters of this race have already been discussed 

 and need not be repeated here. The measurements of the birds col- 

 lected are appended in tabular form. 



