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it. I have seen five specimens from northern Ethiopia and am of the 

 opinion that the northern form may prove to be a distinct, darker 

 race. 



This race of the long-billed pipit (assuming that the form 

 hitherto called '"''Bordidus''' is distinct) occurs in the south-central 

 part of the Ethiopian highlands (northern Shoa, Adis Abeba, etc.) 

 east to the Hawash Valley at least to the Harrar region and to 

 northern Somaliland. 



The total quantity of material available for study leaves me some- 

 what unconvinced as to the distinctness of '''''sordidus''\ hararensis, 

 and neumannianus. It is unfortunate that the last named was de- 

 scribed from southern Shoa rather than from central or southern 

 Kenya Colony, as topotypes are really intermediate in nature be- 

 tween the northern forms and the Kenyan race. 



The two specimens collected are in worn plumage. Their meas- 

 urements are as follows: Wing, 96-97.5; tail, 76.5-77; culmen, 19; 

 tarsus, 24-25.5 mm. 



ANTHUS NICHOLSONI NEUMANNIANUS Collin and Hartert 



Anthus nicholsoni neumamnicmus Collin and Habtert, Nov. Zool., vol. 34, p. 50, 



1927; nom. nov. pro A. n. longirostns Neumann, Orn. Monatsb., vol. 13, p. 



77, 1905 : Gardula, southern Ethiopia. 

 Specimens coli-ected: 



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



1 adult male, southeast of Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 21, 1912. 



1 adult female, Bodessa, Ethiopia, May 30, 1912. 



1 adult female, Turturo, Ethiopia, June 15, 1912. 



1 adult female, Athi River near Juja Farm, Kenya Colony, August 31, 

 1912. 



This race of the long-billed pipit is darker above than hararensis, 

 but the difference is not great. It occurs from southern Shoa to 

 Kenya Colony (south to Naivasha, Nakuru, Kedong, Kisumu, etc.) 

 and to Ruanda and to Bukoba, northwestern Tanganyika Territory. 

 In the latter two regions it intergrades with nyassae. 



The dimensions of the present series are as follows: Male — wing, 

 96; tail, 77; culmen, 19; tarsus, 24 mm. Females — wings, 89-95; 

 tail, 63-73.5; culmen, 17.5-19; tarsus, 25-27 mm. 



The birds collected in March and May are in worn plumage; the 

 June specimen is in molt ; and the August bird in fresh plumage. 



Sclater ^° suggests that Anthus latistriatus Jackson ^^ is founded on 

 a young specimen of nyassae^ in which case Jackson's name would 

 have to be used for the race. However, nyassae does not occur in the 

 Kavirondo country, but only neumrniniawus, so if any name has to 



^ Systema avium ^thiopicarum, pt. 2, p. 341, 1930. 

 »»Ibis, 1899, p. 628: Kavirondo. 



