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in any of the others. If the species were thus divided into two 

 specific entities, the forms would be as follows : 



1. E. nigriceps: Cape Verde Islands. 



2. E. alhifr&ns alhifrons: Darfur and Kordofan to the Nile Valley. 



3. E. a. melanauchen : Jubaland, Somaliland, Gallaland, Eritrea, 

 Socotra, and the Red Sea Province of the Sudan. 



4. E. a. sincipitalis : Aden Protectorate, southwestern Arabia. 

 The three adult males vary considerably with regard to the light 



band across the nape. In one specimen this band is much wider than 

 in the other two and is conterminous with the white auriculars. In 

 the other two the white auriculars are completely surrounded by 

 fuscous-black. 



The immature female resembles the adult but has the throat slightly 

 more buffy. 



The measurements of the series are as follows: Males — wing, 74, 

 78, 79.5; tail, 47, 48, 50.5; culmen, 10.5, 11, 11; tarsus, 15.5, 16.5, 17 

 mm. Female — wing, 71.5; tail, 42; culmen, 11; tarsus, 17 mm. 



The birds are all in fairly worn plumage. According to Pease,*^ 

 the breeding season in the vicinity of Zeila, Somaliland, is in March. 

 He collected a juvenal bird on April 3 and an immature one in 

 November. 



EREMOPTERYX SIGNATA (Oustalet) 



Pyrrhulauda signata Oustalet, Bibl. ^ficole Hautes fitudes, vol. 31, art. 10, p. 6, 



1886: Somaliland. 

 Specimens collected: 



1 adult male, 1 adult female, Sadi Malka, Ethiopia, Febi-uary 3, 1912. 



2 adult females, Hawash River, Ethiopia, February 8, 1912. 

 1 immature male, Malata, Ethiopia, June 22, 1912. 



3 adult males, 1 immature male, 1 immature female, Chaffa, upper village, 

 Ethiopia, June 24-25, 1912. 



7 adult males, 5 adult females, Hor, Kenja Colony, June 26-28, 1912. 



3 adult males, 1 immature male, 1 adult female, 18 miles southwest of Hor, 

 Kenya Colony, July 1-2, 1912. 



4 adult males, 3 immature males, 6 adult females, 2 immature females, 

 Dussia, Kenya Colony, July 3^, 1912. 



3 immature males, east shore Lake Rudolf, July 5, 1912. 



1 adult female, south end Lake Rudolf, July 8, 1912. 



1 unsexed (= male), north end Lake Rudolf, May 23, 1912. 



The chestnut-headed finch lark is a member of the Somali avifauna 

 and ranges from British Somaliland through the eastern parts of the 

 Hawash Valley, west to Sadi Malka, south through Somaliland and 

 Gallaland to extreme southern Shoa and Lake Eudolf and to Kenya 

 Colony, south as far as the Lorian Swamp and the Lekiundu Kiver 

 to the northern foothills of Mount Kenya. Along the coast it does 

 not seem to have been recorded from south of Kismayu. 



« Quoted by Ogilvie-Grant and Reid, Ibis, 1901, p. G30. 



