BIKDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY dOO 



2. G. mn. osiris: Eritrea and Ethiopia south to northern Kenya 

 Colony and northeastern Uganda. Van Someren writes that he feels 

 certain that "when more specimens are available from Baringo and 

 Northern Frontier district, they will prove to be distinct. I fail 

 to separate the South Abyssinian birds from the typical North Abys- 

 sinian race (osiris), with which my Moroto specimens agree very 

 well." 



Berger ^^ writes that birds from Lake Baringo and southward to 

 Solei agree with others from Bogosland, but the blue of the rump is 

 more steel blue in shade in the southern birds. This race differs from 

 suahelicus in having the posterior margin of the throat more violet- 

 red, less steel blue. 



3. G. m. suahelicus: Eastern Uganda, central Kenya Colony, south 

 through Tanganyika Territory to the northern end of Lake Nyasa. 



The young males resemble the females but have dark, almost solid 

 black throats and are generally somewhat larger as well. One of 

 the young birds, collected on August 22, is well advanced in its molt 

 into adult plumage, while the other immature specimens show no 

 sign of molt but are in full immature plumage. Schuster ^® obtained 

 a molting bird at Dar es Salaam on April 14, so it would seem that 

 with two molting seasons there would be two breeding seasons. Van 

 Someren °^ found a nest at Kioumu in July. He writes that it was 

 "composed entirely of cotton-wool and vegetable-down, and lined with 

 feathers. * * * The eggs are creamy white or pale greenish, with 

 a few brownish specklings toward the larger end." Bowen °^ obtained 

 males in breeding condition in the Ikoma region, Tanganyika 

 Territory, June 21-23. 



CINNYRIS MARIQUENSIS OSIRIS (Finsch) 



Nectarinia osiris Finsch, Trans. Zool. Soc. Loudon, vol. 7, p. 230, 1870: Senafe, 



Abyssinia. 

 Specimens coixected: 



5 adult males, Ourso, Ethiopia, September 4-November 15, 1911 (Ouellard 

 coll.). 



3 adult males, 1 juvenal male, Dire Daoua, Ethiopia, November 80-December 

 22, 1911. 



1 adult male, Serre, Ethiopia, February 13, 1912. 



4 adult males, 3 juvenal males, 4 adult females, Bodessa, Ethiopia, May 

 20-31, 1912. 



3 adult males, 2 juvenal males, Tertale, Ethiopia, June 7-10, 1912. 

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

 1 adult female, Turturo, Ethiopia, June 16, 1912. 



The range and characters of this race have already been stated and 

 need not be repeated here. 



=5Journ. fiir Orn., 1911, p. 520. 



M.Tourn. fiir Orn., 1926, p. 735. 



"Ibis, 1916, p. 445. 



» Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 83, p. 70, 1931. 



