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his elaborate treatise on the zoogeography of southern Somaliland, 

 Zedlitz ^^ also notes the remarkably restricted range of the coastal 

 birds. 



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Figure 18. — Distribution of Pomatoihynchus jamesi. 



1. P. j. jamesi. 



2. P. j. kismayensis. 



3. P. j. mandanus. 



The races differ only in coloration, and as I have seen no material 

 of kismayensis and mandanus^ I can only repeat what others have 

 said of their subspecific characters. The form inandanus is said to 

 differ from jamesi in having the brown of the upperparts more 

 sandy, less ashy in hue and in having the sides of the crown much 

 paler. The race kisrnayensis resembles mandanus but differs from 



" Joiun. fur Orn., 1915, p. TiG. 



