BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 465 



1 adult female, south Lake Stefanie, Kenya Colony, May 17, 1912. 



3 adult males, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 8, 1912. 



2 adult females, Northern Guaso Nyiro River, Kenya Colony, August 1, 

 1912. 



1 adult female, 1 immature male, Tharaka district, Kenya Colony, August 



14, 1912. 

 6 adult females, 1 immature male. Tana River, Kenya Colony, August 14-15, 



1912. 



Soft parts (male) : Iris dark brown; bill entirely black; feet and 

 claws dusky olive-brown. 



I follow Chapin ^^ in considering paradkaea as one species and 

 aucupum and its forms another. Sclater '*'* unites them all as one 

 specific group. 



This paradise whidah occurs from Eritrea and Ethiopia to the 

 Upper Wliite Nile and northwestern Uganda, east to the coast of 

 Kenya Colony, and south through eastern Africa to the eastern Cape 

 Province. 



A^an Someren ^^ is of the opinion "that the East African form of 

 S. paradhea will have to be recognized under a special name when 

 sufficient typical material is available. The female birds are darker, 

 more brownish on the mantle and below, than Abyssinian specimens. 

 The young in first nestling plumage are considerably darker. Adult 

 males are indistinguishable." I have compared females from Ethi- 

 opia and south-central Kenya Colony and find them indistinguishable. 



All the adult males collected by the Frick expedition are in breed- 

 ing plumage. One of the "females" from the Tana River appears 

 to be a male in a very early stage of the prenuptial molt. 



According to Heuglin,^ the species is common in Bogosland and 

 northern Ethiopia but does not range above 7,000 feet in the moun- 

 tains. Heuglin found the birds in postnuptial molt in October. 



Family FRINGILLIDAE, Sparrows, Finches, etc. 



SERINUS DORSOSTRIATUS MACULICOLLIS Sharpe 



Serinus maculicoUis Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 4, p. 41, 1895 : Somali- 

 land ; type lu British Museum from Milmil. 

 Specimens collected: 



4 adult males, 3 adult females. Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 4-21, 1911. 

 1 adult male, 1 adult female, 1 juvenal male, Le-se-dun, Kenya Colony, July 



26, 1912. 

 1 unsexed, Malele, Kenya Colony, July 27, 1912. 

 1 adult male (=female), 1 adult female, Lekiundu River, Kenya Colony, 



August 5-6, 1912. 



^ Amer. Mus. Nov., no. 43, pp. 1-12, 1922. 



»s Systema avium .Ethiopicarum, pt. 2, p. 810, 1930. 



»" Nov. Zool., vol. 29, p. 152, 1922. 



1 Ornithologle Nordost-Afrika's, etc., vol. 1, p. 583, 1869. 



