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Table 5. — Measnrernents of 10 specimens of Galeiida theklae praetermissa 



f7-om Ethiopia 



than the middle of December. Zedlitz,^^ collecting at Asmara, found 

 these larks in full song in February and early in March and collected 

 young as early as May 19. 



On the Arussi Plateau, Mearns found this lark up to as high as 

 11,500 feet above the sea. Zedlitz writes that this bird is a moun- 

 tain species and does not occur even on the lower slopes. He found' 

 it between altitudes of from 2,300 meters (7,550 feet) to 3,500 meters 

 (11,500 feet). 



Van Someren ^^ records ellioti from Koroli and Marsabit, in north- 

 ern Kenya Colony, and writes that he suspects the north Kenyan 

 birds will have to be considered as a new form, as they are "darker 

 above than ellioti^ but not so dark below as fraeterinissa^ nor so 

 large." 



EREMOPTERYX LEUCOTIS LEUCOTIS (Stanley) 

 FlQtTRE 5 



Loxia leucotis Stanley, in Salt's Travels in Abyssinia, Appendix, p. Ix, 1814: 



Abyssinia. 

 Specimens collected: 



1 adult male. Mar Mora, Ethiopia, June 14, 1912. 



1 adult male, 1 adult female, Chaffa, upper village, Ethiopia, June 24, 1912. 



1 adult male, Dussia, Kenya Colony, July 3, 1912. 



The chestnut-backed finch lark is the most widely distributed 

 species of its genus, ranging from Senegal, Nubia, Eritrea, and 

 Ethiopia south through the drier parts of eastern Africa to the 

 Transvaal, Bechuanaland, and Damaraland. As far ag the material 

 available for study goes, the conclusions reached by Sclater*° are 

 substantiated, but the statements of ranges given by him are not 

 wholly correct: 



1. E. I. leucotis: To the range as given by Sclater should be added 

 southern Eritrea and Bogosland. 



2s .Tourn. fur Orn., 1911, pp. 51-52. 



^ Nov. Zool., vol. 37, p. 333, 1932. 



<» Systema avium ^thiopicarum, pt. 2, p. 329, 1930. 



