BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AKD KENYA COLONY 



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Molting birds were collected on tlie following dates — April 2, 15, 

 and 21 and June 4 and 25. The March specimen is fairly abraded ; 

 the July and August ones are quite freshly feathered. 



The Juvenal plumage is similar to that of the adult. The two 

 nestlings obtained were collected with the parents. There were three 

 young in all, but only two were preserved. These two appear to 

 have been about 10 to 12 days old, which, about two weeks being 

 allowed for incubation, would put the date for eggs at about May 10. 



Table 22. — Measurements of 26 specimens of Phyllastrephus strepitans 



PHYLLASTREPHUS FISCHERI PLACIDUS (Shelley) 



Xenocichla placida Shelley, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1889, p. 363: Mount 



Kilimanjaro. 

 Specimens collectted: 



1 male, Meru forest, Kenya Colony, August 9, 1912. 



1 male, Escarpment, Kenya Colony, September 8, 1912. 



I have carefully compared three Kilimanjaro birds (topotypical 

 placidus) with eleven birds from Mount Kenya including the type of 

 keniensis Mearns, and find that Sclater ^^ is quite correct in stating 



s« Systema avium ^thiopicarum, pt. 2, p. 384, 1930. 

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