BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 



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Van Someren *° found nests in Kenya Colony from March to July 

 and from November to January. 



Mearns noted about 1,000 of these birds at Aletta, March 7-13, 

 and a similar number at Escarpment, September 4-12. 



Table 80. — Measurements of 21 specimens of Poliospiza striolata striolata 



Locality 



Sex 



Ethiopia: 



Adis Abeba 



Arussi Plateau. 



Do. 



Do 



Cofali 



Aletta 



Kenya Colony: 

 Escarpment 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Ethiopia: 



Adis Abeba 



Arussi Plateau. 



Do 



Do -. 



Do 



Kenya Colony: 

 Escarpment 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Male... 



do- 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do. 



.do. 

 -do. 

 -do. 



.do. 

 -do. 

 -do- 



Female. 



do- 



do„ 



do- 



do-. 



-do- 

 .do- 

 -do- 

 -do- 



LINURGUS KILIMENSIS KILIMENSIS (Reichenow and Neumann) 



Hyphantospiza kilimciisis Reichenow and Neumann, Orn. Monatsb., vol. 3, 

 p. 74, 1895: Kilimanjaro. 



Specimens collected: 1 female. Escarpment, Kenya Colony, September 9, 1912. 



This specimen is somewhat hesitatingly referred to this race as its 

 locality is so far removed from the hitherto known range of kilimen- 

 sls. However, the bird is dark greenish and matches, in its dorsal 

 coloration, males of hilimensis and of nmgwensis. I have seen no 

 females of kiJwiensis, but the description seems to apply to this speci- 

 men as well. 



I am led to a suspicion that there may be two distinct species of 

 Linurgus in the highlands of eastern Africa, and not one species, as 

 Sclater " suggests. There is a yellow-backed species L. elgonensis, 

 with two forms — elgonensii^, of Mount Elgon and northern Kavi- 



*" Ibis, 1916, p. 428. 



"■ Systema avium ^thiopicarum, pt. 2, p. 825, 1930. 



