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occasionally in British Somaliland, as Lort Phillips obtained it on 

 Wagga Mountain. 



When the fact is considered that this bird is a winter visitor in 

 Africa, the altitudes up to which it occurs are rather higher than 

 might be expected. Thus, Mearns found it up to 10,000 feet, Lort 

 Phillips at 7,000 feet, and I know of no record from a locality lower 

 than 4,000 feet. Mearns found the species living in the jumper zone 

 in Arussiland. 



BUDYTES FLAVUS FLAVUS (Linnaeus) 



Motacilla fiava Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, p. 185, 1758: Europe, south Sweden 



(Hartert). 

 Specimens coluex;ted: 



1 male, Gada Bourca, Ethiopia, December 25, 1911. 



1 male, 1 female, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, December 30, 1911. 



1 male, 1 female, Sadi Malka, Ethiopia, December 20, 1911-January 28, 1912. 



1 female, northwest Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 17, 1912. 



1 male, Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 20, 1912. 



1 female, southeast Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 23, 1912. 



The European blue-headed wagtail is a regular winter visitor in 

 Ethiopia and Kenya Colony. In Ethiopia it appears to be less nu- 

 merous, however, than feldegg or cincereoca'pilla^ while in Kenya Col- 

 ony luteus seems to be the commonest race. All the forms are found 

 together in mixed flocks, often of very considerable size. The whole 

 species appears to be rare or lacking in Somaliland, especially in 

 Italian Somaliland. 



BUDYTES FLAVUS CINEREOCAPILLA (Savi) 



Motacilla cinereocapilla Savi, Nuovo Giorn. Lett., vol. 22, p. 190, 1831 ; also 



Ornitologia Tuscana, vol. 8, p. 216, 1831 : Tuscany. 

 Specimens collected: 



1 female, Aletta, Ethiopia, March 10, 1912. 



1 male, Lake Abaya, Ethiopia. March 22, 1912. 



These two specimens appear to belong to the Italian race of this 

 wagtail, although they are in poor plumage for subspecific determina- 

 tion. 



Sclater " writes that it winters "in Uganda and perhaps elsewhere 

 in Africa." Nearly 20 years before, Zedlitz ^^ found cinereompiUa 

 in Eritrea and northern Ethiopia and collected six specimens there. 

 He observed it during the latter part of March and found one as 

 late as May 12 at Cheren; an unusually late date for a European 

 migrant. Blanford " obtained a specimen in breeding plumage at 

 Lake Ashangi in the beginning of April. These records appear to 

 have been overlooked by Sclater. 



T5 Systema avium iEthiopicarum, pt. 2, p 339, 1930. 



''« Journ. fiir Orn., 1911. p. 45. 



''^ Observations on the geology and zoology of Abyssinia, etc., p. 381, 1870. 



