BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 



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Three adult males from Taveta (avIiicIi should be intermediate be- 

 tween littoralis and kisumui) are indistinguishable from Ethiopian 

 birds (typical intermedius) . A female from Euwenzori is somewhat 

 darker above, especially on the crown and upper back, than two from 

 Taveta, but this difference is probably an individual one. Ogilvie- 

 Grant® found Ruwenzori birds to agree quite closely with Shoan 

 specimens. 



Table 77. — Measurements of IS specimens of Ploceus luteolus luteolus 



This bird appears to be rather local in Ethiopia, as a number of 

 collectors, such as Neumann and Erlanger, did not meet with it. 

 Blundell and Lovat obtained it at Kassam, not so very far from Sadi 

 Malka ; Harris found it in Shoa, while Pease recorded it from south- 

 ern Gallaland. In Kenya Colony it is commoner, even near the Gal- 

 laland and Jubaland borders. It also occurs in Uganda and in north- 

 ern Tanganyika Territory. 



The present birds are in fairly fresh plumage, which is more or 

 less in keeping with the observations of Lovat and Pease, who found 

 birds in full nuptial dress breeding in the middle of March at Daira 

 Aila. In the Kavirondo area of Kenya Colony the species has been 

 found nesting in June. 



PLOCEUS VITELLINUS ULUENSIS (Neumann) 



Hyphantornis vitelUnus uluensis Nbjumann, Journ. fur Orn., 1900, p. 282: Ulu 



Mountains, i. e., Machakos, Kenya Colony. 

 Speicimens collected: 



1 adult female, southeast Lake Abaya, Ethiopia, March 22, 1912. 



9 adult males, 5 adult females, Gato River near Gardula, Ethiopia, April 

 21-May 6, 1912. 



1 adult female, 1 immature female, Sagon River, Ethiopia, June 5, 1912. 



» Trans. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 19, pp. 276-277, 1910. 



