BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 



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The young birds have the top of the head, occiput, and nape brown- 

 ish gray barred with black; the backj more brownish, less grayish, 

 also narrowly barred with black ; the upper wing coverts pale rufous- 

 tawny with concentric black lines; the remiges and the rectrices 

 fuscous, edged with tawny-rufous; the scapulars white barred with 

 black; the underparts white tinged with buff and lightly barred with 

 fuscous on the breast, sides, and flanks. 



The male collected at Kormali on May 18 had nesting material 

 in its bill when shot. The nest was in a bush against the trunk of a 

 large tree. Neumann recorded the breeding season in Shoa and 

 Djamdjam as February to April, and Erl anger found nests in the 

 last part of March and early in April near Harrar. The date re- 

 corded by Mearns is therefore an extension of the known reproduc- 

 tive season. 



Table 52. — Measurements of 11 specimens of Lanius collaris humeralis 



Locality 



Ethiopia: 



Arussi Plateau 



Near Aletta- 



Gidabo River 



Gato River 



Kormali 



Kenya Colony: 



Kilindini, near Meru- 



Escarpment 



Do - 



Do — 



Do—. 



Do 



Ethiopu: 



Harrar 



Gada Bourca 



Adis Abeba.. 



Gato River 



Kenya Colony: 



Escarpment 



Do 



Sex 



Male... 



do. 



—.do. 



do. 



do. 



.do- 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 

 .do. 



Female - 



do.. 



do-. 



do.. 



.do. 

 .do. 



LANIUS SOMALICUS SOMALICUS Hartlaub 



Lanius somalicus Haetlaub, Ibis, 1859, p. 342: Bender Gam, Red Sea. 

 Specimens collected: 



1 male, 1 female. Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 19-23, 1911. 



1 male, 2 females, Hawash River, Ethiopia, February 5-8, 1912. 



Lanius antinorii Salvadori is a synonym. 



The Somali fiscal shrike occurs from the Danakil country through 

 Somaliland and the southern half of Ethiopia (the Hawash, Webi, 

 Galla, and Shoan areas) to northeastern Uganda (Turkwell country) 

 and the Rendile country of Kenya Colony, and Jubaland. 



