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Specimens collectei>: 



1 adult male, 1 immature male, White Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 18, 

 1912. 



3 adult males, 2 adult females, Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 19-21, 1912. 

 1 adult female, Bodessa, Ethiopia, May 21, 1912. 



1 adult male, 1 adult female, Sagon River, Ethiopia, June 4, 1912. 



6 adult males, 1 immature male, 14 adult females, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 



8-11, 1912. 

 1 adult female, El Ade, Ethiopia, June 13, 1912. 



4 adult males, 1 immature male, 5 adult females, Mar Mora, Ethiopia, 

 June 14-15, 1912. 



3 adult males, 1 immature female, Anole, Ethiopia, June 17, 1912. 

 29 adult males, 5 immature males, 7 adult females, 2 immature females, 

 Wobok, Ethiopia, June 18-19, 1912. 



1 adult female, near Saru, Ethiopia, June 19, 1912. 



2 adult females, Tebo, Ethiopia, June 21, 1912. 



3 adult males, 4 adult females, 1 immature female, Chaffa, Ethiopia, June 

 23-25, 1912. 



2 adult males, 3 adult females, southeast of Lake Stefanie, Kenya Colony, 

 May 12-17, 1912. 



4 adult females, Hor, Kenya Colony, June 29, 1912. 



1 immature male, 2 adult females, 18 miles southwest of Hor, Kenya Colony, 



July 1-2, 1912. 

 1 immature male, Dussia, Kenya Colony, July 4, 1912. 

 1 adult male, 10 miles southeast Lake Rudolf, Kenya Colony, July 12, 1912. 

 13 adult males, 1 adult female, 1 immature female, Indunumara Mountains, 



Kenya Colony, July 14-15, 1912. 

 1 immature, unsexed, Le-se-dun, Kenya Colony, July 26, 1912. 

 1 adult male. Tana River, Kenya Colony, August 14, 1912. 



Soft parts: Male — iris brown, eye rim red; bill all purplish red; 

 feet and claws brownish orange. Female — iris brown ; bill paler red 

 and more yellowish than in males and with a dusky area at the tip 

 of the maxilla ; feet and claws brownish flesh-color. 



The adult males vary enormously in color, some being deep pur- 

 plish pink on the crown, sides of neck, breast, and center of the 

 abdomen, while others are pale straw yellow on the top of the head 

 and buffy on the breast. The buff-cheeked variety, once named 

 russi, appears to be scarcer in Ethiopia than farther to the south, as 

 it is represented by only a single specimen (collected at Wobok). 

 None of the Ethiopian birds have any black on their foreheads, but 

 I find that less than half of the Kenyan and Tanganyikan birds have 

 black on this area, so I do not see any reason for recognizing the 

 race intermedia. Van Someren *« recognizes it as, "more than half 

 of a series of sixteen adult breeding males have small black foreheads 

 as distinct from the Abyssinia Q. s. aethiopica^ and as three have 

 wide black foreheads as in typical Q. s. sanguinirostris of Senegal." 



« Nov. Zool., vol. 29, p. 146, 1922. 



