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with buif, but with white, and streaked with black. Tliese characters 

 are constant in my series." I have seen no coastal birds and therefore 

 can not add anything pertinent to this. 



The range of the bare-eyed thrush is more extensive than generally 

 thought. Sclater ^^ writes it as "Southern Somaliland and the coastal 

 districts of Kenya Colony to Ugogo in Tanganyika Territory." He 

 appears to have overlooked the fact that Erlanger 2- collected a male 

 at Gololoda in Arussi-Gallaland. As far as I know, the present 

 specimens from Sagon River and Wobok are the first ones recorded 

 from Shoa and constitute a new northwestern limit for the range of 

 the species. The presence of this thrush in the Endoto Mountains 

 indicates a wider range in the interior of northern Kenya Colony 

 than hitherto suspected. 



The measurements of the present series, plus two from central 

 Tanganyika Territory, are given in table 25. The Wobok bird is in 

 molting condition. 



Table 25. — Measurements of seven specmiens of Turdus tephronotus 



More material may demonstrate the presence of a long-billed race 

 in central Tanganyika Territory, but until such specimens are forth- 

 coming nothing definite can be done. 



These specimens agree quite well with Cabanis's colored figure, 

 but not with the illustration in Seebohm and Sharpe's monograph of 

 the Turdidae (vol. 1, pi. 70). ^^ 



The breeding season in southern Italian Somaliland is in May. 

 Erlanger found a nest with three much incubated eggs on May 27 at 

 El-Uak-Bardera. 



Besides the specimens collected, Mearns saw a very few of these 

 thrushes at Bodessa, June 3-6, at the south end of the Endoto Moun- 

 tains, July 21-24, and about 30 birds along the Tana River, 

 August 15-17. 



^ Systema avium .SSthiopicarum, pt. 2, p. 442, 1930. 



"Journ. fur Orn., 1905, pp. 741-743. 



^' A monograph of the Turdidae, or family of thrushes, 2 vols., 1902. 



London. 



