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[Trides yellow, eyelids yellow ; bill black, base yellow ; 

 legs and toes yellow, brownish in front.] 



In naming this bird I have examined all the specimens 

 in the British Museum, and have come to the following 

 conclusions in regard to the various named races : — 



(Edionemus CAPENsis CAPENSis Licht. 



(Edicnemus capensis Licht. Verz. Doubl. 1823, p. 69 : 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



Range. South, south-west, south-east to east Africa, north 

 to Lado. 



Wing : 243-214 mm. Three from Plettenberg Bay, Cape 

 Colony, the nearest I can find to the type-locality, have 

 the wing 229-228 mm. 



Of this, CE. c. damarensis Rchw. (Vog. Afr. iii. Nachtr. 

 1905, p. 801 : German S.W. Africa) and CE. csungor 

 Madarasz (Arch. Zool. Budap. i. 1909, p. 11 : Schirati, 

 German East Africa), are synonyms. 



The character in regard to the tail given by Madarasz is 

 not by any means constant, and I can only find it in two 

 specimens, one from Masailand, and the other from north 

 Guaso Nyiro; whereas all the others from German and British 

 East Africa agree with specimens from further south in every 

 detail. 



QCdicnemus capensis affinis Riipp. Mus. Senck. ii. 1837, 

 p. 210 : Kordofan. 



Range. Kordofan, Abyssinia, and Somaliland. 



A smaller, very rufous race. Wing : 222-204 mm. 



(Edionemus capensis dodsoni O. -Grant, Bull. B. O. C. x. 

 1899, p. xix. : Lahej, S. Arabia. 



A small, greyer race with finer markings. Wing : 224- 

 220 mm. 



I have been unable to examine specimens of G^. c. psam- 

 muchromus Reichw. (Vog. Afr. iii. Nachtr. J 905, p. 801 : 

 Hinterlande von Togo), or of CE. c. ehrenbergi Zedlitz (Orn. 

 Monatsb. 1910, p. 9: Dahlak Island, Red Sea), which I should 

 not be surprised to find is either CE. c. ajffinis or CE. c. dodsoni, 

 and most probably the former. 



