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specimens are all typical alba. They are all in the white-throated 

 winter plumage. 



Von Heuglin met with this wagtail in winter in Ethiopia and 

 adjacent parts of the Nile Valley in the Sudan, and Blanford found 

 it fairly common in the former country, both in the highlands and 

 in the coastal plains, and noted it as late as the beginning of May 

 at Lake Ashangi. Zedlitz ''^ writes that in the Eritrean-Ethiopian 

 border it is an abundant winter visitor, especially in the highlands, 

 where it is to be found along the little streams until early in March, 

 when it leaves. 



MOTACILLA AGUIMP VIDUA Sundevall 



Motacilla vidua Sundevau., Ofv. Kongl. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl., vol. 7, p. 128, 

 1850: Type in the Stockholm Museum from Syene, i. e-, Assouan, Upper 

 Egypt. 



Speicimens collected: 



1 female, no locality, Marcli 3, 1912. 



2 females, Athi River near Juja Farm, Kenya Colony, August 31, 1912. 



The pied wagtail of Africa was met with only toward the end of 

 the journey made by the Frick party, as it does not occur in the 

 highlands of Ethiopia, where most of the field work was done. It 

 occurs along the Nile from Assouan southward, and in eastern Africa 

 from Gurraland and southern Somaliland through Kenya Colony, 

 etc., to the eastern Cape Province. In the west it occurs from Liberia 

 to southern Angola, but in the area between the Orange and the 

 Vaal Rivers, it is replaced by typical aguimp. 



I am not at all certain that there are two recognizable forms of 

 this species, but in the absence of material of the nominate race, I 

 prefer to follow Sclater's list ^^ rather than to decide otherwise. 



In Gurraland and southern Somaliland the breeding season ap- 

 pears to be over by the end of April, or at least it is past its height 

 by then, although Erlanger ^^ found a pair feeding a fledgling cuckoo, 

 La7npro7norpha klaasi, on June 7 in that region. In Uganda and 

 Kenya Colony the majority of the birds nest from April to July. 



MOTACILLA CLARA Sharpe 



Motacilla clara Shabpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 341 ; nom. nov. pro M. longieauda Riippell 

 (uec Gmelin), Neue Wirbelthiere, etc., Vogel, p. 84, pi. 29, fig. 2, 1840: Simien, 

 Ethiopia. 

 Specimens collextfed: 



2 unsexed, 1 male, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, December 30, 1911- January 10, 

 1912. 



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



2 males, Gato River near Gardula, Ethiopia, March 30, 1912. 



'" Journ. fur Orn., 1911, p. 44. 



" Systema avium ^Ethiopicarum, pt. 2, p. 336, 1930. 



" Journ. fur Orn., 1907, p. 35. 



