BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 217 



them. They ought to be kept as subgenera at least, in which case 

 the present species would belong in the subgenus Bumesia. 



This warbler lives in the grassy acacia savannahs and is very 

 abundant in southern Somaliland. According to von Erlanger,*^ 

 the breeding season is in April and May. He found a nest w^ith four 

 eggs at Haro-Ali, in Gurraland, on April 7, and another, also with 

 four eggs, at Damaso, Garre-Lewin, on May 14. 



Family MUSCICAPIDAE, Old World Flycatchers 



MUSCICAPA STRIATA STRIATA (Pallas) 



Motacilla striata Pallas, in Vroeg, Catalogus adumbratiunculae, p. 3, 1764: 



Holland. 

 Specimens collected: 2 females, Gato River near Gavdula, Ethiopia, April 3- 



May 2, 1912. 



The European spotted flycatcher is a common and regular migrant 

 in northeastern Africa. In Kenya Colony many remain for the 

 winter, but the bulk pass through to regions farther south. 



Both specimens are in new, fresh plumage. This bird has but 

 one molt a year, which takes place in the winter quarters, from 

 November- to March. 



Like many European migrants the present species is more numerous 

 on either side of Ethiopia than in that country, owing to the natural 

 migratory highways afforded by the Nile Valley and the Ked Sea 

 and to rhe high altitude of northern and central Ethiopia. 



Meinertzhagen^* found that the birds arrived in southern Kenya 

 Colony late in September and left by the end of March. Van Som- 

 eren and others have found it to be widely distributed in that 

 country. 



ALSEONAX MINIMUS DJAMDJAMENSIS Neumann 



Alseonax murinus djamdjamensis Neumann, Journ. fiir Orn., 1905, p. 206: 



Gerbidjo, Djamdjam, Ethiopia. 

 Specimens collecte3): 



3 males, 2 females, Arussi Plateau, 9,000 feet, Ethiopia, February 21-24, 

 1912. 



2 females, Cofali, Ethiopia, March 2-3, 1912. 



1 male, Malke, Ethiopia, March 3, 1912. 



1 male, 2 females, Aletta, Sidamo, Ethiopia, March 7-9, 1912. 



1 male. Loco, Sidamo, Ethiopia, March 13, 1912. 



In identifying the present series I have studied Grote's revision *^ 

 and have examined 88 specimens representing 10 forms. Inasmuch 

 as my conclusions do not entirely agree with Grote's, the following 



^ Journ. fur Orn., 1905, pp. 724-725. 



**Ibis, 1921, p. 671. 



»=Orn. Monatsb., vol. 28, pp. 112-115, 1920. 



