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tiire abessinica often have some brownish wash above and below, 

 making them look much like griseiffuJa^ while worn examples of the 

 latter appear grayer above, quite like freshly plumaged abesshiica. 



Since the above account was written, Granvik *°^ has described two 

 more races from Kenya Colony — alhiventris from the coastal belt, 

 which I consider a synonym of eriangeri, and aschani from Mount 

 Elgon, which may prove to be distinct from abessinica, inhabiting 

 parts of western Kenya Colony and also eastern Uganda. Of this 

 race, said to have the head and mantle darker than in abessenica, I 

 have seen no material. 



The size variations of the present series may be judged from the 

 figures (adults only) given in table 38. 



Table 38. — Measurements of 23 specimens of Camaroptera brevicaiidata abes- 

 sinica from Ethiopia 



Neumann *^ records a male from Lake Abaya with a wing length of 

 60 mm. 



One of the Gato River specimens (taken on April 27) is molting 

 the rectrices. The majority of the birds collected in April and May 

 are in fairly fresh plumage; the majority of those shot in December 

 and March are abraded. 



*«« Rev. Zool. ct Bot. Afr., toI. 25, pp. 101-103, 1934. 

 " Journ. fur Orn., 1906, p. 278. 



