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Streptopelia capicola tropica Rchw. — Orn. Monatsber. 1902, 



p. 139. 



Ivui . . . ki-kamba. 



3 (5(5 ad. 20.-22. 4.-, 1 ^ juv. 20. 4.; 1 2 ad. 23. 4. Lake Naiwasha. — 



1 <S ad. 10. 5.; 2 QQ ad. 10. 5. Londiani. _ 1 (5 ad. 13. 5. Eldoret. - 1 (5 ad. 



25. 7. ; 2 ee ad, 16. 5. Soy. - S 66 ad. C. 6. and 24. 7.; 2 QQ ad. 10. 7. 



and 24. 7. Mount Elgon. 



This pigeon was very common at every place through 

 which our expedition passed. Asa rule they were met with, in 

 pairs or in small flocks, in the brier- bush on the edge of the 

 forests. 



In the series of 17 skins brought home from ditferent 

 regions there are rather great variations in the colours of the 

 dress, and it seems as if the Elgon -specimens are, as a rule, 

 somewhat darker than those from regions farther south, e. g. 

 from Lake Naiwasha. 



The five specimens from the latter place show a rather 

 clear greyish blue tint on the belly and all of them have a con- 

 siderably lighter greyish blue -coloured head than those from 

 Elgon and the neighbouring regions, and this greyish blue part 

 extends rather far back on the neck, which is not the case in 

 this race. Compare Zedlitz (J. f. 0. 1914, p. 649). 



The outer- web of the extreme rectrix in all full-grown 

 birds is entirely white, whereas the young bird, on the other 

 hand, has a narrow, blackish border along the shaft. 

 Wing in cTcf is 155 — 158 mm. 

 „ „ 9 „ 161 mm. 

 „ „ d* juv. is 145 mm. 



The three specimens from the Londiani regions are already 

 somewhat darker than the preceding, and with these three the 

 description given by Zedlitz (op. cit.) agrees very well. But 

 all of them have a brownish tone on the belly, which is, how- 

 ever, the same phenomenon as that encountered in so many birds 

 that live on laterite soil, where they thus become coloured by 

 the red-brown clay. 



Wing: d* 155 mm. 



99 148 and 155 mm. 



A specimen from Eldoret (about 65 miles northwest of 

 Londiani) differs only in size, the wing -measurement of this 

 specimen being 162 mm. 



From Soy (in the vicinity of Elgon) I have two specimens 

 having a wing-length of 147 and 148 mm respectively. 



The remaining six specimens from the Elgon regions differ 

 Very much from one another in the shade of colour on the belly, 

 that is to say, I have both light and dark ones. One specimen 

 is, however, of special interest, inasmuch as all the feathers of 

 the lower body are provided with — as it would seem — a 



