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stuck against the side of a tallish tree, about 12 feet from the ground, 

 and at a little distance could scarcely be distinguished from the bark." 

 Some years later ^^ he obtained a nest with four eggs at Gedais, on 

 March 2. 



Table 64. — Measurements of 14 specimens of Eurocephalus riippelli erlangeri 



from Ethiopia 



NILAUS BRUBRU MINOR Sharpe 



Nilaus minor Sharpe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1895, p. 479: Okoto, central 



Somaliland. 

 Specimbins coixected : 



1 male, Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 6, 1911. 



3 males, 2 females, Gato River near Gardula, Ethiopia, April 8-24, 1912. 



1 female, Bodessa, Ethiopia, May 22, 1912. 



2 males, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 7, 1912. 

 1 male, Yebo, Ethiopia, June 21, 1912. 



1 male, Malele, Kenya Colony, July 27, 1912. 



12 males, 2 females, 1 immature female, Lekiundu River, Kenya Colony, 



August 4-7, 1912. 

 1 female, Tharaka district, 2000 feet, Kenya Colony, August 14, 1912. 

 1 female. Tana River, Camp No. 6, Kenya Colony, August 21, 1912. 

 1 male, 20 miles above mouth of Thika River, Kenya Colony, August 27, 



1912. 



I consider this form a race of the South African Nilaus hrubru, 

 from M'hich it differs only in size, the latter being somewhat larger. 

 Most writers have either kept minor as a distinct species or assumed 

 it to be a race of afer^ to which species it certainly seems not to 

 belong. In connection with the present study I have examined a 

 series of 46 specimens of 7ninor and find no grounds for maintaining 

 Hilgert's form erlangeri,"' ° which therefore becomes a synonym of 

 minor. The race erlangeri is said to be somewhat smaller and to 



8» Ibis, 1898, p. 406. 



'oOrn. Monatsb., 1907, p. 63. 



