BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 299 



March 2&-29, 20 seen ; Gato River near Gardula, March 29-May 17, 

 1,000; Gato River crossing. May 17, 25 seen; Anole village, May 18, 

 10 noted ; Sagon River, May 19, 15 birds ; Bodessa, May 19-June 6, 

 120; Sagon River, June 3-6, 200; Tertale, June 7-12, 100; El Ade and 

 Mar Mora, June 12-14, 40 seen; Turturo, June 15-17, 100; Anole, 

 June 17, 25 birds; Wobok, June 18, 6 seen; near Saru, June 19, 10 

 noted ; Yebo and Karsa Barecha, June 20-21, 20 birds seen. 



POMATORHYNCHUS JAMESI JAMESI (Shelley) 

 FiGUBE 18 



Telephonus jamesi Sheixey, Ibis, 1885, p. 403, pi. 10: Somaliland (high plateau 



of the interior south of Berbera). 

 Specimens ooixected: 



1 adult male, 1 immature male, 3 adult females, Bodessa, Etliiopia, May 

 20-26, 1912. 



2 adult males, 1 adult female, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 9-11, 1912. 

 1 adult male. Mar Mora, Ethiopia, June 14, 1912. 



1 adult female, Turturo, Ethiopia, June 17, 1912. 



1 adult female, Malata, Ethiopia, June 22, 1912. 



2 adult males, 1 adult female, Indunumara Mountains, Kenya Colony, July 

 14-16, 1912. 



1 adult male, camp near Endoto Mountain, Kenya Colony, July 19, 1912. 

 1 adult male, Northern Guaso Nyiro River, Kenya Colony, August 3, 1912. 

 1 adult male, Lekiundu River, Kenya Colony, August 5, 1912. 



This shrike occurs from the interior plateau country of British 

 Somaliland south (through Ogaden?) to the Gurra and Garre-Lewin 

 countries to extreme southern Shoa (north to the Abaya Lakes) west 

 to the Turkwell River and south through Kenya Colony (in the 

 arid semidesert country) from the Rendile district to the Kerio 

 River, to the Northern Guaso Nyiro and Lekiundu Rivers, to the 

 Taru Desert (Tsavo, etc.) and the plains east of Kilimanjaro (Teita, 

 Mbuyuni), and to Maungu (inland from Mombasa). It breaks up 

 into three races, the distribution of which is nearly unique among 

 the birds of northeastern Africa. The typical race occurs from 

 British Somaliland to Ethiopia and northern Kenya Colony to the 

 Taru Desert and the Kilimanjaro Plains, while on the coast around 

 the mouth of the Juba River (extending northward into Italian 

 Somaliland and southward into Kenya Colony) is another form, 

 kimiayetisis, which, in turn, is replaced at the mouth of the Tana 

 River by still another, Tnandanus. The unusual feature is that the 

 form of the low-lying Somali coastlands is not the race that extends 

 westward through the Garre-Lewin and Gurra countries to Lake 

 Rudolf, but is wholly restricted to the coastal belt. Ordinarily the 

 race inhabiting the Taru Desert also occurs in the Somali lowlands, 

 but in this case it is the form of the interior plateau of western 

 Somaliland that ranges south to the Tsavo and Teita countries. In 



