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TABLE 73. — Measurements of 23 specimens of Zosterops poliogaster from Ethiopia 



Von Heuglin ^^ found this bird to be a fairly common resident in 

 the mountains of eastern and central Ethiopia, at altitudes of from 

 3,000 to 12,000 feet. He found it in the Telemt, Simien, and Bege- 

 meder areas. Blanf ord ^^ met with it in Tigre ; Elliott ^* found the 

 species at Bohoigashan in Somaliland; Antinori and Eagazzi found 

 it in Shoa. Lovat ^^ reported it as a very common bird in the country 

 east of Adis Abeba. Zedlitz ^^ met with it in southern Eritrea. Neu- 

 mann-^ found it only at great heights (8,900-10,200 feet); Er- 

 langer " found it abundantly in the higher forested regions of 

 Arussi-Gallaland and Shoa. He writes that the breeding season is 

 from January until July. Females in laying condition Avere collected 

 on January 18 in the Djamdjam region, and on July 4 in Arussi- 

 Gallaland. 



Mearns noted about 1,000 of these birds at Aletta, March 7-13, and 

 10 at Loco, March 13-15. 



22 Ornithologie Nordost-Afrika's, etc., vol. 1, pp. 412-413, 1869. 



23 Observations on the geology and zoology of Abyssinia, p. 354, 1870. 



2* Field Columb. Mus. Publ. Orn. Ser., Publ. 17, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 41, 1897. 



2= Ibis, 1900, p. 145. 



2«Journ. fiir Orn., 1911, p. 56. 



2TJourn. fUr Orn., 1906, pp. 241-242. 



2»Journ. fUr Orn., 1907, pp. 50-51. 



