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specimen and also another "collected by Jesse at Ambra in August. 

 As this is quite a young bird, it may quite well be that this species 

 breeds in the Abyssinian highlands." Keichenow ^'^ in treating of 

 this form (under the name rufus Gmelin) gives its range as "Siid- 

 westliches Asien, Nordostafrika, hier anscheinend Standvogel:" 

 etc. There is no real evidence, however, to support the contention 

 that this shrike nests anywhere in northeastern Africa. 



LANIUS CRISTATUS PHOENICUROIDES Severzow 



Laniiis phoenicuroides Severzow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1873, p. 347, nom. nud.; 



Neumann, Journ. fiir Orn., 1905, p. 229; Shoa. 

 Specimens collected: 1 adult female, Gato River near Gardula, Ethiopia, 



April 17, 1912. 



This bird is phoenicuroides and not isabellinus, or else is a very dark 

 specimen of the latter race. The identification is supported by the 

 fact that phoeniewroides is commoner in northeastern Africa than is 

 isahellinus, although both forms are known to winter there. 



This shrike breeds from Transcaspia to Persia, Turkestan, and 

 Afghanistan, and winters in southern Arabia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, 

 Somaliland, Kenya Colony, and to Uganda and the adjacent south- 

 ern part of the Sudan. In most of the Sudan (Red Sea, Berber, 

 White Nile, and Upper Nile Provinces) the pale race isdbeUinus is 

 the common form. Apparently the latter migrates down the Nile 

 Valley, while phoenicuroides follows the Red Sea coastline. It is 

 therefore rather puzzling that Zedlitz ^^^ records only isahellinus 

 from southern Somaliland. Of course, both forms mix to some 

 extent during the winter ; thus, van Someren ^^ obtained both in 

 Kenya Colony, and Zedlitz ^^ procured both in Eritrea and extreme 

 northern Ethiopia. According to Neumann,^* isahellinus is a resident 

 breeding bird in Arabia, which would account for its getting to 

 Somaliland. 



The present specimen is in new, fresh plumage. It was taken on 

 what appears to be a rather late date for southern Shoa. 



LANIARIUS FUNEBRIS FUNEBRIS (Hartlaub) 



Bryoscopus fune'bris Habtlaub, Proc. Zool. See. London, 1863, p. 105: Maninga, 



Unyamwesi district, Tanganyika Territory. 

 Specimens collected: 



4 males, 1 female, Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, December 8-22, 1911. 



1 female, Errer River, Ethiopia, December 13, 1911. 



1 male, Sadi Malka, Ethiopia, January 29, 1912. 



" Die Vogel Afrikas, vol. 2, p. 627, 1903. 

 ^i» Journ. fiir Orn., 1915, p. 67. 

 ■^'Nov. Zool., vol. 29, p. 124, 1922. 

 ^3 Journ. fiir Orn., 1910, p. 806. 

 " Journ. fur Orn., 1905, p. 229. 



