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geyu, Molo, Londiani, Maraquet, the Aberdare Range, and Mount 

 Garguess. On Mount Elgon, another race, elgone^isis, is found, 

 just as on Mount Kilimanjaro, guttifer is the local form. 



CERCOTRICHAS PODOBE PODOBE (Muller) 



Turdus podohe P. L. S. Muller, Natursy stein, Suppl., p. 145, 1776: Senegal. 

 Specimens collected : 1 female. Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 21, 1911. 



The black bush-robin appears not to have been found before in the 

 Hawash district of Ethiopia, although it is not uncommon in the 

 Eritrean lowlands and in the Red Sea littoral of the Sudan. 

 Sclater ^^ considers this bird and melanoptera conspecific, but it 

 would seem just as natural to grant the latter full specific standing, 

 as it has plain brownish wings, while podohe has a large bright 

 rufous patch on the inner web of each remex. 



The present specimen is in fairly fresh plumage and has the fol- 

 lowing dimensions : Wing, 92 ; tail, 110.5 ; culmen, 20 ; tarsus, 28 mm. 



According to von Heuglin, the breeding season in Dongola is 

 from July to August. Zedlitz ^^ suggests that this is also true in the 

 Cheren district, southern Eritrea. 



PHOENICURUS PHOENICURUS PHOENICURUS (Linnaeus) 



Motacilla phoenicurns Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 187, 1758 : Europe ; Sweden 



(Hartert). 

 Specimens collected : 1 unsexed. Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, September 9, 1911. 



This specimen was obtained from M. Oaellard. 



Two races of the European redstart occur in Ethiopia in winter — 

 the typical one, and the eastern form samamisious^ which may be told 

 very easily by the white outer webs of the primaries. 



The typical form winters south to southwest ern Arabia, Ethiopia, 

 Turkanaland, southern Sudan, etc., west to the Gold Coast. It has 

 been taken as far south as Bukoba, on the west shore of Lake Victoria, 

 but this is unusual. It does not appear to have been found in Kenya 

 Colony or adjacent parts of southern Uganda. 



It is not impossible that a third form, turkestanicus Sarudny, may 

 winter in eastern Africa, according to Grote.^^ 



PHOENICURUS PHOENICURUS SAMAMISICUS (Hablizl) 



Motacilla samamisica Hablizl, Neue Nordische Beytrage, vol. 4, p. 60, 1783 : 



Samamisch Alps, Gilan Province, northern Persia. 

 Specimens collected : 



1 male. Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 18, 1911. 



1 male, Serre, Upper Hawash River, Ethiopia, February 13, 1912. 



1 male, Gidabo River, Ethiopia, March 17, 1912. 



21 Systema avium .13thioplcarum, pt. 2, p. 488, 1930. 



'"Journ. fUr Orn., 1911, p. 87. 



23 Mitteil. Zool. Mus. Berlin, voL 16, pt. 1, p. 46, 1930. 



