BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 



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Besides the specimen collected, Mearns saw about 20 of these 

 warblers at Bodessa, May 19-June 3 ; 2 seen at Sagon Kiver, June 6 ; 

 and 2 at Tertale, June 7. 



Table 36.^ — Measurements of nine specimens of Eremomela griseoflava from 



Ethiopia 



E. G. KARAMOJENSIS 



E. G. GRISEOFLAVA 



Lake Abaya. 



Bodessa. 



Do 



Do 



Do 



Male... 



do. 



do. 



do. 



do- 



54.0 

 51.5 

 55.0 

 53.0 

 54.5 



29.5 

 30.5 

 31.5 

 33.0 

 30.5 



11.0 

 10.5 

 11.0 

 11.0 

 11.0 



17.0 

 17.0 

 16.5 

 17.0 

 16.5 



EREMOMELA GRISEOFLAVA FLAVICRISSALIS Sharpe 



Eremomela fiavicrissalis Shaepe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loiidou, 1895, p. 48 : Shebelli, 



western Somaliland. 

 Specihens cxjllected: 



1 female, Le-se-dun, Kenya Colony, July 26, 1912. 



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



1 male, 18 miles south of Malele, Kenya Colony, July 28, 1912. 



1 female, 25 miles south of Malele, Kenya Colony, July 29, 1912. 



1 female, 25 miles north of Northern Guaso Nyiro liiver, Kenya Colony, 

 July 30, 1912. 



As already intimated, there is some doubt as to whether erJangerl 

 is really a synonym of flavicTnssalis. I have seen no specimens of the 

 former and therefore do not care to attempt a definite decision, but 

 several authors who have had material from southern Somaliland 

 and from the Marsabit area find that the birds do break up into two 

 racial forms. Zedlitz ^^ writes that fiavicrissalis has a winsr leno-th 

 of 50 mm, and erlangeri 45 to 48 mm. This difference does not hold, 

 as the present birds are typical of fiavicrissalis in color and have 

 wings measuring 46 to 48 mm. The difference between the two 

 groups (if they be distinct) is one of color; the abdomen is pale 

 yellow in erlangeri, while in -flavicnssaUs it is white with only a very 

 narrow midventral pale yellowish area. Yan Someren ^^ writes that 



s^iJourn. fui- Orn., 1916, p. 100. 



•sjourn. East Africa and Uganda Nat. Hist. See, no. 35, p. 67 (143), 1930. 



