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and Kivu are darker than Kenyan birds and may be a distinct form. 

 Gyldenstolpe's two Kivu birds fail to corroborate this alleged differ- 

 ence. 



The system adopted by Sclater ^ is therefore correct. It is un- 

 fortunate that he does not dispose of inuwensis, as his omission leaves 

 that name in an uncertain position. 



The present race occurs from the highlands of Nyasaland north 

 in the higher districts of Tanganyika Territory and Kenya Colony 

 north to Mount Elgon, and the Mount Kenya district, and also in 

 the Kivu highlands of the eastern Belgian Congo, and to Urundi, 

 and to Ankole, southwestern Uganda. It does not appear to reach 

 Ruwenzori, and, for that matter, I do not know of any records from 

 Mount Kenya itself, although the Smithsonian-Roosevelt expedition 

 obtained a specimen along the Njoro River, in the plains immediately 

 to the west of that mountain. 



The young bird collected is in postjuvenal molt; the adult is in 

 fairly fresh plumage. The young bird is peculiar in that the spots 

 on the upper back are practically white, while in several other 

 Juvenal birds examined these spots are rich rufous. 



This robin-chat is fairly common along the edges of forests and 

 in dense hedgelike thickets. Van Someren ® found nestlings in De- 

 cember at Nakuru and Nairobi. Fledglings just out of the nest were 

 obtained in May and in October at Kitunga and near Fort Hall by 

 the Smithsonian-Roosevelt expedition. 



Mearns recorded seeing 10 of these birds at Escarpment, September 

 4-12. On Mount Elgon, Granvik^ found it up to an altitude of 

 8,500 feet. 



CICHLADUSA GUTTATA GUTTATA (Heuglin) 



Cratcropus guttatus Heugun, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, p. 300: Balir el Abiad, i. e., 



Upper White Nile; type from Auiop, Bahr el Jebel (Neumann). 

 Specimens collected : 



5 adult males, 2 adult females, Gato River near Gardula, Ethiopia, April 



8-May 11, 1912. 

 1 adult male, Sagon River, Ethiopia, June 4, 1912. 

 1 adult male, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 11, 1912. 

 1 adult male, Turturo, Ethiopia, June 16, 1912. 

 1 adult male, 1 juvenal male, 1 adult female, Malata, Ethiopia, June 22, 



1912. 

 1 adult male, Chaffa, Ethiopia, June 23, 1912. 

 1 adult female, north Lake Rudolf, Kenya Colony, May 23, 1912. 

 1 juvenal male, Endoto Mountains, south, Kenya Colony, July 23, 1912. 

 1 adult female, 18 miles south of Malcle, Kenya Colony, July 29, 1912. 

 1 adult female, Tana River, Kenya Colony, August 14, 1912. 



^ Systema avium ^thiopicarum, pt. 2, p. 475, 1930. 



•Ibis, 1916, p. 470. 



T Journ. fur Orn., 1923, Sonderheft, p. 257. 



