BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 



BIRDS RECORDED FOR THE FIRST TIME FROM KENYA COLONY 



Aquila verreauxi. 



Claiuator jacoMnus hypopinarus. 



Otus senegalensis caecus. 



Indicator variegatus jubaensis. 



Indicator minor erlangeri. 



Mirafra Candida. 



Hirundo rufula melanocrissa. 



Phyllastreplius cerviniventris lonnbergi. 



Andropadus insularis fricki. 

 Bradypterus alfredi fraterculus. 

 Prionops cristata melanoptera. 

 Cinnyris venustus blicki. 

 Zosterops senegalensis fricki. 

 Passer castanopterus fulgens. 

 Quelea cardinalis pallida. 



BIRDS RECORDED FOE THE FIRST TIME FROM FRENCH SOMALILAND 



Pisobia minuta. 

 Glottis nebularia. 



Halcyon leucocephala hyacintbiua (specimen recorded in this report, but not 

 collected by the Frick expedition). 



EXTENSIONS OF RANGE, NOT INVOLVING ADDITIONS TO THE FAUNA OF ANT OF THE 

 THREE COUNTRIES DEALT WITH ABOVE. (THE EXTENSIONS OF RANGE VARY FROM 

 SMALL TO GREAT ONES, BUT ALL ARE DEFINITELY NE^V LIMITS FOE THE FORMS IN 

 QUESTION) 



Ardeola ralloides. 



Torgos tracheliotus nubicus. 



Acryllium vulturinum. 



Rougetius rougetii. 



Choriotis arabs arabs. 



Choriotis kori struthiunculus. 



Stephanibyx lugubris. 



Eremialector lichtensteinii hyperythrns. 



Tympanistria tympanistria fraseri. 



Gymnoschizorhis personata. 



Caprimulgus stellatus simplex. 



Halcyon pallidiventris. 



Melittophagus revoilii. 



Phoeniculus purpureus marwitzi. 



Phoeniculus purpureus niloticus. 



Prodotiscus regulus peasei. 



Parus afer barakae. 



Parus niger lacuum. 



Anthoscopus caroli rothschildi. 



Turdoides leucopygia omoensis. 



Argya aylmeri aylmeri. 



Phyllastrephus strepitans. 



Turdus tephronotus. 



Cercomela dubia. 



Pogonocichla margaritata keniensis. 



Cercotrichas podobe podobe. 



Bradypterus brachypterus abyssinicus. 



Eremomela griseoflava abdominalis. 



Cisticola aridula lavendulae. 



Hypodes cinereus kikuyuensis. 



Macronyx aurantiigula. 



Dryoscopus pringlii. 



Pomatorhynchus australis littoralis. 



Speculipastor bicolor. 



Ouychognathus walleri walleri. 



Nectarinia reichenowi. 



Chalcomitra cruentata. 



Sorella eminibey. 



Ploceus bojeri. 



Euplectes capensis kilimensis. 



Pytilia afra. 



Estrilda paludicola ochrogaster. 



Linurgus kilimensis kilimensis. 



Fringillaria striolata saturatior. 



ZOOGEOGRAPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS 



Lonnbergi has amassed a considerable array of evidence indi- 

 cating that in the past, probably during the Miocene, the African 

 Continent was covered with a great unbroken forest, which extended 

 over practically the whole continent with the probable exception 

 of South Africa. The present lowland wooded areas are taken to 



^ Arklv for Zool., vol. 21A, no. 4, pp. 1-33, 1929. 



