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3. B. a. frcuterculus : The highlands of Kenya Colony from Mount 

 Kenya to Mau. 



4. B. a. sjostedti: Mounts Kilimanjaro and Meru. 



5. B. a. usambarae: Usambara and Uluguru Mountains. 



A possible sixth race is nyassae of the Nyasa highlands. It may 

 even be that msiri of the Katanga is a seventh. 



The five forms listed may be distinguished by the following 

 characters : The under tail coverts are entirely white in alhicrissalis ; 

 they are margined with white in aljredi; and they have no white 

 on them in the otlier three. Of the remaining three, fraterculus is 

 the darkest; it has the breast, sides, flanks, thighs, and under tail 

 coverts brownish olive; the other two have these areas distinctly 

 tawny-olive. The difference between sjostedti and usaiiibarae is 

 rather slight, but the former is more grayish on the breast, sides, 

 and flanks than the latter. 



A female from Mount Kenya is slightly paler below than the 

 present male. In his original description of fraterculus Mearns 

 mentions two females from Mount Kenya. One of these is really 

 B. altumi van Someren. The male has the following dimensions: 

 Wing, 62; tail, 68; culmen from base, 15.5; tarsus, 25 mm. The 

 female: Wing, 62; tail, 62; culmen, 14.8; tarsus, 24 nnn. Both are 

 in fairly fresh plumage. 



CALAMONASTES SIMPLEX SIMPLEX (Cobanis) 



Thamnobia simplex Cabanis, Jouru. fiir Orn., 1878, pp. 205, 221: Ndi, Teita 



district, Kenya Colouy. 

 Specimens collected: 



2 adult males, 1 adult female, 1 unsexed, Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 

 5-10, 1911. 



1 adult female, Sadi MaLka, Ethiopia, January 30, 1912. 



1 adult male, Anole village, Ethiopia, May 18, 1912. 



2 adult males, 2 juvenal males, Sagon River, Ethiopia, May 19-June 5, 

 1912. 



1 adult unsexed, Turturo, Ethiopia, June 15, 1912. 



1 adult female, Anole, Ethiopia, June 17, 1912. 



1 adult male, Wobok, Ethiopia, June 18, 1912. 



1 adult unsexed, near Saru, Ethiopia, June 19, 1912. 



1 adult male, 1 adult female, 23 miles southeast Lake Rudolf, Kenya 



Colony, July 12, 1912. 

 1 adult male, Induuumara Mountains, Kenya Colony, July 14, 1912. 

 1 adult female, Endoto Mountains, north, Kenya Colony, July 20, 1912. 



1 adult male, 1 adult female, Endoto Mountains, south, Kenya Colony, July 

 23, 1912. 



2 adult males, 24 miles south of Malele, Kenya Colony, July 29, 1912. 



1 adult male, 1 adult female. Tana River, camp 3, Kenya Colony, August 



16, 1912. 

 1 adult male, Thika River, Bowlder Hill, Kenya Colony, August 28, 1912, 



