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seen no Ethiopian birds and not enough of unicolor to attempt a 

 revision, and therefore I follow Sclater ^* in this matter. Zedlitz,^^ 

 however, came to conclusions different from Sclater 's. Zedlitz con- 

 siders all birds from Ethiopia, Uganda, and the north shore of Lake 



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• SCALE • 

 Figure 25. — Distribution of AmUyospiza albifrons in northeastern Africa. 

 i. A. a. aethiopica. 3. A. a. unicolor. 



2. A. a. montana. k- -4.. a. melanota. 



Victoria as aethiopica. Sclater considers Kavirondan and Ugandan 

 birds as melanota., which race Zedlitz restricts to the White Nile and 

 Bahr el Ghazal. The birds of southern Somaliland Zedlitz considers 

 to be intermediates between aethiopica and unicolor. The race nion- 



^ Systema avium iEthiopicarum, pt. 2, p. 754, 1930. 

 ssjourn. fur Dm., 1916, pp. 23-25. 



