BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 



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Table 26. — Measurements of 18 specimens of Gookichla litsipsiriipa simensis 



f7-07n Ethiopia 



Locality 



Wing 



Tail 



Culmen 



Tarsus 



Adis Abeba 



Do 



Do - 



Do.__- - ---- 



Do 



Do 



Arussi Plateau, 10,000 feet. 

 Do 



Arussi Plateau, 9,000 feet.. 



Cofali 



Near Aletta 



Adis Abeba 



Do 



Do 



Near Ankober 



Arussi Plateau, 7,000 feet.. 



Cofali.. 



Adis Abeba 



Male 



....do... 

 ....do... 

 .-..do— 

 ....do... 



do... 



do... 



do.. 



do._ 



do.. 



do.. 



Female. 



do.. 



do.. 



do.. 



do- 



do.. 



Mm 



13o.O 



133.0 



134.0 



131.0 



131.0 



135.0 



139.0 



138.0 



131.0 



136.0 



132.5 



125.0 



132.5 



129.0 



129.0 



128.0 



131.0 



132.0 



Mm 

 71.0 

 74.0 

 74.0 

 68.0 

 72.0 

 71.0 

 76.0 

 75.0 

 71.5 

 71.5 

 71.5 

 71.0 

 74.0 

 67.5 

 71.0 

 67.0 

 71.0 

 70.0 



Mm 

 24.0 

 24.0 

 24.0 

 24.0 

 25.0 

 25.0 

 23.0 

 23.0 

 24.5 

 23.0 

 23.0 

 23.0 

 23.5 

 24.0 

 24.0 

 24.5 

 23.0 

 25.0 



Mm 

 37.0 

 38.0 

 34.5 

 35.5 

 38.0 

 37.5 

 38.0 

 36.5 

 35.0 

 37.0 

 37.0 



36.0 

 35.5 

 36.0 

 34.5 

 35.0 

 37.0 



MONTICOLA SAXATILIS (Linneans) 



Ttirdiis saxatilis Lixnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, p. 294, 1766: Mountains of 

 Switzerland, Austria, and Prussia; Switzerland (Hartert). 



Specimens ctollected : 



2 immature males, 4 immature females, Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, November 



27-December 19, 1911. 

 1 adult male, Ethiopia, March 5, 1912. 



1 immature female, Gidabo River, Ethiopia, March 17, 1912. 

 1 adult female, Bridge south of Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 23, 1912. 



The European rock thrush is a regular and common migrant and 

 winter visitor in Etliiopia and Kenya Colony. Meinertzhagen ^^ 

 has summarized what is knowai of its wanderings in eastern Africa, 

 and, more recently, Grote -^ has added to this account. In eastern 

 Africa the birds get as far south as the Ubena highlands and the 

 Morogoro area, Tanganyika Territory. 



According to Meinertzhagen, this bird begins to arrive in north- 

 ern Somaliland in the second half of September, the first birds being 

 young ones; adults appear early in October. Likewise, the species 

 reaches the Sudan in September, but I am not aware of any records 

 for Ethiopia earlier than October. Here again, as in the case of so 

 many palearctic migrants, the routes followed seem to be the Nile 

 Valley and the Red Sea, and the intervening area receives chiefly 

 the overflow from these paths rather than a direct flight of migrants. 



27 Ibis, 1922. p. 13. 



i^Mitteil. Zool. Mus. Berlin, vol. 16, pt. 1, pp. 38-39, 1930. 



