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Kilimanjaro birds." The latter refers not to Mount Kilimanjaro 

 itself, on which mountain the birds seem to be absent, but to the 

 general region thereabouts, which would come very close to the 

 Usambara Range. 



The present specimens are in fresh plumage (the Gardula bird is 

 so badly damaged by shot that it hardly seems so), and have the fol- 

 lowing dimensions: Wing, 112, 113; tail, 92, 93; culmen, 21.5, ; 



tarsus, 28, 30 mm, respectively. A male from Mount Garguess is 

 slightly smaller (wing, 109 mm). It appears that fresh plumage 

 signifies that the birds had just finished breeding, as Granvik '^^ found 

 a female with nestlings on Mount Elgon on June 3, and the parent 

 was in molt at the time. "The bird", he says, "had its nest in an 

 inaccessible j)osition under the large rocks and could reach the nest 

 by different ways, in which I heard the nestling twittering." Granvik 

 found this bird but once on Mount Elgon. Van Someren records it 

 as not very common in Kenya Colony and Uganda. 



THAMNOLAEA CINNAMOMEIVENTRIS ALBISCAPULATA (Riippell) 



Saxicola albiscapulata Ruppbill, Neue Wirbelthiere, zu der Fauna Abyssinien 



gehorig, etc., Vogel, p. 74, pi. 26, fig. 1, 1837 : Abyssinia. 

 Specimens coixected: 1 female, Ourso, Ethiopia, September 13, 1910. 



This specimen was obtained from M. Ouellard by the Frick expedi- 

 tion. It is in very abraded condition, but it shows the characters of 

 the race — black tips to the long central upper tail coverts. 



There is some confusion in the published statements as to the range 

 of this bird. Von Heuglin " states that it lives at altitudes of from 

 1,500 to 3,000 meters above the sea, while Blanf ord '^^ saw it "from 

 the sea-level to the highlands." It was fomid near water, especially 

 on the rocky banks of streams. In Eritrea, Zedlitz ^^ found it at ele- 

 vations from 1,000 to 1,800 meters. He further observed that its 

 distribution is very local, as he found it numerous only at Ela Bered 

 (1,600 meters) ; elsewhere only scattered pairs were seen. 



This race occurs west to Sennar in the Sudan. 



THAMNOLAEA SEMIRUFA (Ruppell) 



Saxicola semirufa Ruppell, Neue Wirbelthiere, zu der Fauna Abyssinien gehorig, 



etc., Vogel, p. 74, pi. 25, 1837: Zana, i. e.. Lake Tsana, Ethiopia. 

 Specimens collected : 



1 male, 2 females, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, January 7-10, 1912. 



1 male, Botola, Ethiopia, March 5, 1912. 



1 male, 1 female, Aletta, Ethiopia, March 7, 1912. 



Soft parts (female) : Iris grayish brown; bill and feet black. 



" Journ. fur Orn., 1923, Sonderheft, p. 250. 



'» Ornithologie Nordost-Afrika's etc., vol. 1, p. 368, 1869. 



''* Observations on the geology and zoology of Abyssinia, etc., p. 360, 1870. 



'B Journ. fiir Orn., 1911, p. 79. 



