BIRDS OF ETHIOPIA AND KENYA COLONY 457 



URAEGINTHUS BENGALUS BRUNNEIGULARIS Mearns 



Uraegirithvs hcngahis hriiiuicif/iilaris Mearns, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 56, 



no. 20, p. 6, 1911 : Wanibiigu, near Mount Kenya. 

 Specimens coixectbd: 



1 male, 2 females, Tharaka district, Kenya Colony, August 12^14, 1912. 



1 female, Tana River, Kenya Colony, August 18, 1912. 



1 male, 2 females. Tana River at mouth of the Thika River, Kenya Colony, 

 August 24-25, 1912. 



This is the bird of the highlands of the interior of the southern 

 half of Kenya Colony. In the Elgon district it intergi-ades with 

 uga7idae. 



The slightly smaller size of this race, as compared with schoanus, 

 may be sensed from the dimensions of the present specimens : Males — 

 wing, 52, 53 ; tail, 56, 58 ; culmen, 10, 10 ; tarsus, 14, 15 mm. Females- 

 wing, 49.5-55 (average, 52.7) ; tail, 48.5-53 (51.5) ; culmen, 9-10 

 (9.4); tarsus, 13-14.5 (14 mm). The birds are in fairly fresh 

 plumage. 



Mearns noted this species every day during his travels between 

 the Tharaka district (August 12) and the Thika and Athi Rivers 

 (September 1). He saw from 20 to 100 birds daily. 



GRANATINA lANTHINOGASTER lANTHINOGASTER (Reichcnow) 



Uraeginthvs ianthinogaster Reichenow, Orn. Centralbl., 1879, p. 114: Massa, 



Tana River. 

 Specimens collected: 5 males, 2 females. Tana River, Kenya Colony, August 



15-17, 1912. 



I have examined good series of all four races of the purple gren- 

 adier and find the arrangement presented by Sclater ^^ very satis- 

 factory. I have not seen material wherewith to judge the status 

 of Tothschildi and inontana^ and I accept Sclater's conclusion as to 

 their identity with roo^evelti. Hartert,^- however, recognizes 

 rothschildi as valid, but not montana. 



Van Someren ^^ suggests that the birds of central Tanganyika 

 Territory (Dodoma region) may prove to be separable, differing from 

 ianthinogaster in being more grajdsh, less rufescent, on the back, 

 with the color of back and head more contrasting than in Kenyan 

 birds. I have seen a pair of adults from Dodoma, and the differ- 

 ences mentioned by van Someren are exhibited by them. However, 

 if, as Sclater suggests, rothschildi and montana are synonymous with 

 roosevelti^ the last-named form must be very variable, and I there- 

 fore do not care to describe a new race from Dodoma on such 

 meaner data. 



«i Systema avium .^tliiopicarum, pt. 2, pp. 80G-807, 1930. 

 »2Nov. Zool., vol. 34, p. 195, 1928. 

 83 Nov. Zool., vol. 29, p. 160, 1922. 



