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Erlanger ^* records this species from southern Somaliland (Chon- 

 golo, Solole, and Fanole) but does not identify his specimens beyond 

 the species. Zedlitz "^ similarly gives no clue as to their racial iden- 

 tity, but it appears that these birds are probably cinereola^ in which 

 case the range of that race should be extended north to the lower 

 Genale and the Bardera district, southern Italian Somaliland. 



Inasmuch as my conclusions differ from those given by Sclater, 1 

 give a summary of the races and their ranges, as follows : 



1. H. c. cinereus: Cameroon to Gaboon, east to Uganda. 



2. H. c. kikuj/uemis: The interior of Kenya Colony from the 

 Kikuyu district north to the Tana River. 



3. H. c. cinereola: The coastal areas of Tanganyika Territory 

 north to the plains east of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Teita and Pare 

 Hills, and the Taru Desert, north along the coast to southern Somal- 

 iland; south through Mozambique and Nyasaland; west through the 

 Katanga and Northern Rhodesia to Benguella and Damaraland. 



4. H. c. caerulescens : Natal and Zululand to Swaziland and 

 Amatongaland, southern Mozambique. 



5. H. c. fondoensh: Pondoland (doubtfully distinct). 



6. H. c. cijierascens : Gold Coast. 



PARISOMA PLUMBEUM PLUMBEUM (HarUaub) 



Stenostiia plunihea Hautlaub, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, p. 41: Casamanze Kivei", 



Senegal. 

 Specimens colleoted: 



1 male, Gato River near Gardula, Ethiopia, April 6, 1912. 



1 male, Sagon River, Ethiopia, June 3, 1912. 



Soft parts: Iris brown; bill black above and on sides, flesh-color 

 below; feet plumbeous, claws black. 



This species occurs throughout the African Continent from Sene- 

 gal, the Sudan, to the White Nile and southwestern Ethiopia, south 

 to South Africa (except the western part), exclusive of the heavy 

 forest area of the Upper Guinea coast and of the Congo Basin. 

 Throughout this enormous range it remains fairly constant in its 

 size and color characters, the only geographic race described being 

 orientcde of Reichenow and Neumann from the Taru Desert region 

 of Kenya Colony.'*" This race is said to differ in having the outer- 

 most pair of rectrices white for only the distal third of their length, 

 while in the nominate form these feathers are practically wholly 

 white. Not having seen any birds from coastal Kenya Colony, I 



^ Jouru. fur Orn., 1905, p. 683. 

 >« Journ. fur Orn., 1915, p. 43. 

 » Orn. Monatsb., 1895, p. 74. 



