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Van Someren ®- lists emini^ Ttiinor^ dohertyi, and kivv^nsis as doubt- 

 fully distinct. This is quite true for the first three, but kivuensis is 

 said to be a synonym of f rater by Gyldenstolpe.''^ 



Grote ^* writes that minor occurs at Mikindani, southeastern Tan- 

 ganyika Territory, but that the Mozambique-Nyasaland race congener 

 replaces it on Cape Delgado. He states that Mikindani is the south- 

 ernmost locality for nninor^ but it appears more probable that his 

 specimens ,are really littoralk. If this be found to ho. true, the range 

 of littoralis as given above would have to be extended southward 

 from Dar es Salaam to Mikindani. Because of the uncertainty at- 

 tached to the birds of the latter place, I have not definitely placed 

 them with one race or another. 



This bird, like all the races of the species, is a denizen of the 

 thornbush country. Its breeding season and habits have not been 

 recorded, but the inland form of East Africa (min^r) nests from 

 May to July and also in January in the Kikuyli district of Kenya 

 Colony. 



POMATORHYNCHUS SENEGALUS ERYTHROPTERUS (Shaw) 



FlGXnSE 17 



Lanius erythropterws Shaw, General Zoology, vol. 7, p. 201, 1809: "Senegal" 



(= South Africa). 

 Spex:imens collexited: 



2 males, Endoto Mountains, south, Kenya Colony, July 23, 1912. 



1 female, Tharaka district, Kenya Colony, August 12, 1912. 



1 male, Tana River, Camp No. 5, Kenya Colony, August 19, 1912. 



1 male, 1 female, 20 miles above mouth of Thika River, Kenya Colony, 

 August 27, 1912. 



1 male. Bowlder Hill, Thika River, Kenya Colony, August 28, 1912. 



1 female, between Thika and Athi Rivers, Kenya Colony, August 29, 1912. 



The two specimens from south of Endoto Mountains are somewhat 

 intermediate between erythropterus and catholeucus^ but nearer the 

 former. The specimen from the Tana River and the one from 

 Bowlder Hill are rather light and begin to approach orientalis, 

 although nearer to typical erythropferus than to the coastal form. 



There has been considerable shifting of names in this race, and 

 inasmuch as I have had to go into this matter, I present the follow- 

 ing brief summary so that others may be spared the work of digging 

 it out. Lanius erythroptei^s w,as described by Shaw on the basis of 

 the "Pie-grieche rousse a tete noire du Senegal," of Buffon ^^ and on 

 "Le Tchagra" of Levaillant.«« 



02NOV. Zool., vol. 29, p. 110, 1922. 



" Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Hand., 1924, p. 122. 



MJourn. fur Orn., 1913, p. 128. 



^ In Daubenton, Planches enlumin^es, pi. 479, fig. 1. 



"* Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique, vol. 2, pi. 70, 1805. 



