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6. E. g. dbdominalis : Central Kenya Colony from Lekiundu River, 

 Fort Hall, Kikuyum Tsavo, and Campi-ya-bibi, south to central Tan- 

 ganyika Territory (Igonda and Songea). 



7. E. g. craiofurdi: The Sotik, Loita, and southern Kavirondo 

 districts of Kenya Colony south to the Mwanza district in Tan- 

 ganyika Territor3^ If tardinata Hartert (described from Sagayo 

 near Mwanza) should prove to be valid, the range of crawfurdi 

 would end, in a southward direction, in the Ikoma area. 



Of these seven races, abdotninalis is the darkest and most richly 

 colored. It has the entire abdomen, and flanks, strontian yellow. 

 The form most like it is haramojensh^ in which the abdomen and 

 flanks are citron-yellow. This race also averages slightly paler 

 grayish on the throat and breast, and has the rump very slightly 

 more greenish. The form griseofiava is still paler, having the abdo- 

 men and flanlvs barium yellow ; archeri has the abdomen pale yellow- 

 ish only along the midventral portion, the rest and the flanks being 

 whitish ; alexanderi is said to be much paler than griseoflava and to 

 have more greenish yellow on the rump; craiofurdi is a paler form, 

 which is said to differ from all the others in having well-marked 

 white superciliary stripes. All these six forms are large, having 

 wings of from 50 to 59 mm, while the seventh race, flamcrissalis, 

 is small, wings 45 to 50 mm. In color it resembles archeri. 



Von Heuglin and Blanford found the typical form of this warbler 

 in the Anseba district on the Eritrean-Ethiopian border. Zedlitz °^ 

 found it to have a very considerable range altitudinally from Barca 

 at 700 meters to the high plateau at 2,400 meters. 



Erlanger ^^ observed it in the luxurious vegetation along stream 

 banks in the Hawash and Ginir districts. He writes that the breed- 

 ing season is in May in the Hawash region. On June 6, he found 

 two Juvenal birds only recently out of the nest. 



EREMOMELA GRISEOFLAVA KARAMOJENSIS Stoneham 

 FiGUEE 14 



Eretnomela flavwentris Icaramojcnsis Stoneham, Bull. Brit. Oin. Club, vol. 45, 

 p. 78, 1925 : Northern Karamoja, northeastern Uganda. 



Specimens collected : 



1 male, Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 20, 1912. 

 4 males, Bodessa, Ethiopia, May 22-Juue 1, 1912. 



The range and characters of this race have already been discussed 

 and need not be repeated here. The Lake Abaya specimen is some- 

 what intermediate between haramojensis and typical griseoflava but 

 is nearer to the former. On the whole, karamojensis is slightly 

 smaller than giiseoflava^ as the figures given in table 36 show. 



sojourn, fiir Orn., 1911, p. 69. 

 81 Journ. fur Orn., 1905, p. 733. 



