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Table 27. — Measurements of 10 spceiinens of Potrophiia rufocinerea 



P. R. RTJFOCINEKEA 



P. E. TENUIS 



OENANTHE OENANTHE OENANTHE (Linnaeus) 



Motacllla oenanthe Linnakus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 186, 1758: Europe; restricted 



type locality, Sweden. 

 Specimens collected : 1 unsexed, Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 18, 1912. 



The main migration route followed by the European wheatear ap- 

 pears to be the Nile Valley, and the result is that the bird is com- 

 moner in the Sudan, Uganda, and Kenya Colony than in Ethiopia. 

 However, it is a regular winter visitor in the latter country and also 

 in Somaliland. Chapin^^ has graphically depicted what is known of 

 the wanderings of this form, and Grote ^^ has further elaborated this 

 v'oibject. 



A long-billed race, rostrata, also winters in northeastern and east- 

 ern Africa. Sclater ^^ does not mention rostrata, or argentea either, 

 but both winter in eastern Africa. 



OENANTHE LEUCOMELA LEUCOMELA (Pallas) 



Motacllla. leucomela Pallas, Acad. Sci. Imp. Petropolitauae, Novi Comm., vol. 



14, p. 584, pi. 22, 1771 : Lower Volga. 

 Specimens collected: 



4 males, 1 female, Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, November 29-DotGmber 20, 1911. 



1 female, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, January 2, 1912. 



1 male, SadI Malka, Ethiopia, January 30, 1912. 



1 female, Serre, Ethiopia, February 13, 1912. 



1 male, 1 female, Arussi Plateau, Ethiopia, February 14-20, 1912. 



1 male, White Lake A^baya, Ethiopia, March 22, 1912. 



""Amer. Nat., vol. 57, p. 119, 1923. 



-'^Mitteil. Zool. Mus. Berlin, vol. 16, pt. 1, pp. 40-41, 1930. 



*» Systema avium .Slthiopicarum, pt. 2, pp. 450-451, 1930. 



