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BULLETIN 15 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



The breeding season in Ethiopia is in April and May according to 

 the observations made by Erlanger ^^ and probably earlier as well, 

 for one of the birds in juvenal plumage was collected on March 25. 

 Some of the birds taken in April and May are in molt, which sug- 

 gests that the nesting season does not extend much beyond the latter 

 month. 



Table 54. — Measurements of 36 specimens of Laniarius funebris funebris 



On May 11, at Bodessa, Mearns collected a pair of these birds with 

 their nest and two eggs. The nest was placed on a horizontal lower 

 limb of a large tree growing in the middle of a thicket of bushes and 

 vines. It was partly supported by twigs, but there was no underlying 

 foundation of coarse twigs. It is a well-made, firmly constructed, 



•« Journ. fflr Orn., 1905, p. 696. 



