BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 225 



KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF BBADORNIS IN NORTHEAST AND EAST AFBICA 



a\ Upperparts brownish, sometimes grayish brown, head not dis- 

 tinctly streaked with darker. 



6\ Wings 80 to 91 mm microrhynchus microrhynchus 



&^ Wings averaging less than 80 mm. 

 &. Upi)erparts dark with practically no brownish tinge, wings 



75 to 82 mm m. pumilus 



c*. Upperparts with a brownish or buffy wash. 



d}. Throat and abdomen pure white; wings 70 to 80 mm; 



upperparts with a brownish wash m. taruensis 



d'. Throat and abdomen lightly tinged with pale grayish 

 buff; upperparts with a slight buflfy tinge; wings 70 



to 80 mm m. erlangeri 



a^ Upperparts brownish, sometimes grayish brown, head not dis- 

 tinctly streaked with darker. 

 &\ Upperparts grayish brown, throat pure white, contrasting 

 with the pale grayish brown breast. 

 &. Wings 90 to 100 mm; upperparts with but little gray. 



pallidas suahelicus 

 c'. Wings usually less than 93 mm ; upperparts with a notice- 

 able degree of gray. 



d^. AVings small, 80 to 89 mm, usually less than 86 mm p. modestus 



(i^ Wings not so small, 85 to 95 mm, averaging 90 mm p. murinus 



&^ Upperparts pure brownish (dull, but not grayish), throat 

 and underparts whitish washed with pale buff. 



('*. Under wing coverts pure white bafirawari 



(^. Under wing coverts not pure white. 



<Z*. Crown dark brown p, granti 



(^^ Crown not dark brown, not darker than back. 



e^. Wings 92 to 96 mm long p. bowdleri 



e^ Wings 80 to 86 mm long p. pallidas and p. subalaris 



BRADORNIS MICRORHYNCHUS MICRORHYNCHUS Reinchenow 



Bradyornis tnicrorhynchus Reichenow, Jouru. fiir Orn., 1887, p. 62 : Iraugi, 



Tanganyika Territory. 

 Specimens collected : 



1 adult female, Athi River, August 29, 1912. 



1 adult male, Athi River, September 1, 1912. 



Van Someren " records typical mid'Oi^hynchus from Magadi Lake 

 to Kendii Bay, while birds from Simba, Kitiii, and Nairobi he refers 

 to as ^^Bradorrds griseics ? subsp." and writes that they are "much 

 more heavily built than the birds from Tsavo (taruensis) and nearer 

 to B. griseus and g. pumilus. Wings, 80-87 mm." From the mate- 

 rial examined it seems to me that birds from the area between Simba 

 and Nairobi (which would include the present two birds from Athi 

 River) are not separable from the birds inhabiting the country im- 



" Nov. Zool., vol. 29, pp. 94-95, 1922. 



