260 BULLETIN 15 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Hitherto M. aurantiigula has been recorded only from the coastal 

 districts of East Africa from the Pangani River in northern Tan- 

 ganyika Territory north to Malindi in Kenya Colony, and inland to 

 Lake Manyara and the plains east of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tangan- 

 yika Territory and to the Athi River in Kenya Colony. Conse- 

 quently, it was interesting to find that the Childs Frick expedition 

 procured a specimen in the Tharaka district north of the Tana River 

 and east of Mount Kenya, an extension of range of some 150 miles. 

 Furthermore, Donaldson Smith collected another many years before 

 on the Tana River, but this record has apparently remained unpub- 

 lished. His specimen is now in the collections of the Academy of 

 Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, to which institution I am indebted 

 for the privilege of examining it. 



The present specimen is in very fresh plumage and has the margins 

 of the feathers of the crown and back brighter tawny, less grayish 

 sandy, than any of a series of slightly worn examples of typical 

 ourantiigula. Whether this difference is geographical or due to wear 

 can not be decided without more material. 



The present specimen is the type of Macronyx aurantiigula suh- 

 ocularis Friedmann. At the time I described it I had only material 

 collected and sexed by native collectors, and I confused a sexual 

 difference with a geographic character. The subspecies is not valid. 



MACRONYX FLAVICOLLIS Ruppell 



Macronyx flavicolUs RtJppELL, Neue Wirbelthiere, zii der Fauua Abyssinien 

 gehorig, etc., Vogel, p. 102, pi. 38, fig. 2, 1840 ; Simien, Ethiopia. 



SPEciME:as coixected: 



3 males, 3 females, 2 unsexed, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, December 30, 1911- 



Jauuary 10, 1912. 

 1 male, 1 female, Hakaki, Ethiopia, January 15, 1912. 

 1 male, 1 female, Arussi Plateau, 9,000 feet, Ethiopia, February 23-28, 



1912. 



The Abyssinian longclaw is wholly restricted to the highlands of 

 Ethiopia from Simien and central Ethiopia south to Kaffa, Shoa, 

 and Arussi-Gallaland. Nicholson" has listed all the localities for 

 this species known to him, from which it appears that the present 

 birds from the juniper zone at 9,000 feet on the Arussi Plateau are 

 not at all unusual. The altitndinal range of the species is from 4,000 

 to more than 10,000 feet, and the bird is commoner at the upper 

 than the lower limit of its range. Thus, von Heuglin found it from 

 8,000 to 10,000 feet in the Simien, Wogara, and Begemeder regions, 

 and Blanford never observed it below 10,000 feet. 



Zedlilz ^* considers Reichenow's form aurantiigula as a race of 

 fla/vicolUs, but all other authors agree in considering them specifically 



"Mem. and Proc. Mancbester Lit. and Phil. Soc, vol. 53, pt. 3, p. 5, 1909. 

 " Journ. fur Orn., 1916, p. 58. 



