BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 



343 



Mountains, July 19-24, 200; Er-re-re, July 25, 100; Le-se-dun, July 

 26, 100 ; Malele, July 27, 100 ; Northern Guaso Nyiro River, July 31- 

 August 3, 7 birds noted. 



Table 67. — Measurements of 14 specimens of Galeopsar salvadorii 



SPREO SHELLEYI Sharpe 



Spreo shelleyi ShabpB, Catalogue of the birds in tlie British Museum, vol. 13, p. 



190; 1890: Somaliland. 

 Specimens collected : 



2 immature, unsexed birds, Ourso, Ethiopia, October 3, 1911 (Ouellard coll.). 



1 adult female, south Lake Stefanie, Ethiopia-Kenya border, May 11, 1912. 



1 immature male, Sagon River, Ethiopia, June 3, 1912. 



This bird lives in southern Somaliland, Ennia Gallaland west to 

 Lake Stefanie, and to the northern part of Kenya Colony south to 

 the Tana River and to Tsavo and Maungu. On the basis of its 

 occurrence in the Tsavo region, where hildehrandti also is found, 

 van Someren ^^ proposes to regard shelleyi as a distinct species, for 

 "although they overlap, they do not interbreed. I have examined a 

 good many specimens and have seen no evidence of mixing." 



It is now established that some of the southern records of shelleyi 

 do refer to breeding birds," and now that this is done there is no 

 leason for regarding it as other than a species. It must be admitted 

 that the two forms are very distinct from each other in the adult 

 plumage; hildehrandti having the breast much paler than the ab- 

 domen, while in shelleyi the breast is just as dark as the abdomen. 

 Juvenal birds are hard to tell apart. 



" Nov. Zool., vol. 29, p. 128, 1922. 



"Van Someren, Nov. Zool., vol. 37, p. 314, 1932. 



