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Oenanthe pileata living stonei Tristr. — ' ' . 

 Rchw. III. p. 718. 



Campicola Kvingstonei Tristr. Stone: Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad., 1905, 

 p. 171. - Og.-Grant : Ibis 1912, p. 390. 



1 (5 ad. 22. 8.; 1 Q ad. 22. 8. Kendu. 



At Kendu this bird was rather common and frequented the 

 withered grass-plains in the vicinity of a native village, in the 

 same localty as that in which Fyrrhulauda leucopareia occurred. 



Zedlitz (Journ. f. Orn., 1916, p. 105) mentions under 

 pileata a cT- specimen from Kismaju (north-east British East 

 Africa) with a wing-measurement of 96 mm., and quotes Neu- 

 mann's opinion (Journ. f. Orn., 1900, p. 313) that the true 

 South Africa pileata is represented in Central and southern 

 German East Africa by the smaller and darker livingstonei Tristr., 

 and in north-eastern German East Africa by alhinotata Neum., 

 which is distinguished by the white tips to the tail-feathers. — 

 Zedlitz does not, however, consider this character to be any 

 systematic distinction but only an attribute of the entirely fresh 

 plumage. It is remarkable that Ogilvie-Grant calls his 

 specimens from Bechuanaland (Okwa, Lehutitu) livingstonei and 

 says of them that they are distinguished from typical pileata by 

 "their smaller size and shorter bill". Further, the same writer 

 points out that Livingstone's VVheatear is "found throughout the 

 Kalahary wherever open country, such as it loves, was met with". 



If it is proved that South Africans, as a rule, have such a 

 high figure for the wing-measurements as Neumann states: 

 93 — 95 mm., and East African specimens keep about the figure 

 attained by mine, there should surely be good reason for sepa- 

 rating them. But as Zedlitz' specimen from the coasts ex- 

 hibits a wing-measurement of 96 mm., it should undoubtedly be 

 a good pileata, as the author himself thinks, and the South 

 African form thus be the coastal form in British East Africa, 

 while those from the interior parts of the country should belong 

 to livingstonei. Mack wort h-Praed gives the wing for a 

 specimen from the Tsavo-River at 88 mm. and styles it pileata 

 (Ibis, 1917, p. 382). Banner man also mentions pileata for 

 the first time from Mombasa, but does not give any figures (Ibis, 

 1910, p. 695). Stone names his specimens from Naiwasha, 

 livingstonei (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad., 1905, p. 771) and states 

 that "they are much greyer on the back than the South African 

 bird, C. pileata, and he also separates alhinotata from livingstonei. 



The present specimens have the following measurements: 

 Wing, tarsus, 



89 mm. 30 mm. cf. 



84 mm. 29 mm. 9- 



