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be synonymized, it would be that of the present race. Furthermore, 

 Shelley ^^ writes th,at Jackson's pipit probably "inhabits Southern 

 Abyssinia as well as Kavirondo", thereby giving it the range of 

 newmannianus. However, latistriatiis^ as its name implies, is a bird 

 with distinctly streaked sides and flanks, a character not present in 

 any plumage (as far as known) of any race of A. nicholsoni. With- 

 out having seen any material of Jackson's form, I can not form a 

 definite opinion. 



ANTHUS RICHARDI CINNAMOMEUS Ruppell 



Anthus cinnamomeus Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, zu der Fauna Abyssinien 

 gehorig, etc., Vogel, p. 103, 1840 : Simien Province, Ethiopia. 



Specimens collected: 



1 male, 3 females, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, December 31, 1911-January 10, 1912. 

 6 males, 3 females, Arussi Plateau, Ethiopia, February 14-20, 1912. 



The male from Adis Abeba is smaller than any of those from Arussi 

 Plateau and is probably wrongly sexed. 



There is considerable variation in color in the present series, the 

 Arussi birds being slightly more grayish, less rufescent above, than 

 those from Adis Abeba. All, however, are more rufous than lacuum 

 of Kenya Colony. 



Meinertzhagen ®^ has shown that the rufulus group and the richardi 

 group are conspecific, and his revision is followed by more subsequent 

 workers. Van Someren ^* has apparently missed the point, as he 

 records richardi as a winter visitor in Kenya Colony, and rufulus 

 cinnamomeus as a breeding bird there. Both are probably referable 

 to A. richardi lacuum. 



It is an open question whether lacuum is really distinct from 

 raaltenii of South Africa, but the limited material I have been able 

 to examine of the latter does not enable me to judge this point de- 

 cisively. Therefore, for the present at least, I follow Sclater's list ^^ 

 and keep them distinct, although I am not unmindful of the fact that 

 Neumann, Granvik, and others have united them. Gyldenstolpe ^^ 

 does not consider the point at all, but uses the name lacuum for his 

 birds from the eastern Congo. 



The size variations of the present series are given in table 49. The 

 measurements agree with those given by other writers. 



In the regions traversed by the Frick expedition, two races of this 

 pipit occur, as follows : 



1. A. r. cinnamomeus: The inland plateau of southern Eritrea and 

 of Ethiopia south to southern Shoa and Arussi-Gallaland. Sclater 



•= The birds of Africa, etc., vol. 2, p. 305, 1900. 



" Ibis, 1921, p. 651. 



»<Nov. Zool., vol. 29, p. 180, 1922. 



^ Systema avium ^thioplcarum, pt. 2, p. 343, 1930. 



»« Kongl. Svenslca Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1924, p. 80. 



