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Escarpment, a highland area that shows many avifaunal affinities 

 with Ethiopia. There is a slight average difference in the wing 

 length, that of hilimensis being slightly larger, but the extremes 

 are alike in both races. 



The Kiva raa sabinjo Reichenow I have not seen. Sclater con- 

 siders it the same as wanthomelas^ but it appears to be more like 

 kilimensis. 





xanthomelas 



61- 

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FiGDRB 28. — Relative measurements of the tail of Euplectes capensis xanthomelas and 



E. c. kilimensis. 



The males are in a very late stage of the postnuptial molt and are 

 in fresh winter plumage ; the females are more abraded. Neumann " 

 collected a male in breeding dress on September 15 at Menagascha 

 near Adis Abeba, but in December in the Djamdjam district he found 

 the birds only in winter plumage. His dates, therefore, agree quite 

 well with the data afforded by the present specimens. 



Heuglin found these birds up to as high as 10,000 feet in the 

 Wagara highlands, which is considerably higher than anyone else 



kilimensis 



"Journ. ftir Gin., 1905, p. 346. 



