MACRONYX FLAVICOLLIS. 11 



Macronyx flavicoUis. 



Macronyx flavicollis, Riipp. N. Wirb. Vog. p. 102, pi. 38, fig. 2 (1835) 

 Abyssinia; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. x. p. 625 (1885) Shoa, Abyssinia; 

 Salvad. Aun. Mus. Genov. 1881, p. 169 ; 1888, p. 26o,Gigl. t.c. p. 35 

 Shoa; Hartert, Kat. Vog. Mus. Senck. p. 11 (1891) Abyssinia, ijuv.; 

 Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 173 (1896) ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 142 ; 1901, 

 p. 633 S. Abyssinia. 



Adult. Similar to M. capensis, but diifers in being smaller ; upper parts 

 more strongly mottled ; throat duller orange, not shaded with red ; the 

 broad eyebrow yellow in front of the eye and huffy white behind ; the black 

 on the sides of the throat more extended and margined on the sides of the 

 neck with a broadish buffy white band ; breast, thighs and under tail-coverts 

 brownish buff with scarcely any yellow shade down the centre of the body ; 

 sides of the chest and the flanks strongly marked with blackish shaft-stripes ; 

 the yellow on the wing with no orange shade ; axillaries white. Total 

 length 6-7 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 3-5, tail 2-8, tarsus 1-2. Shoa, ,? , 

 10. 7. 78 {Antinori). 



The Abyssinian Long-claw is apparently restricted to the 

 Abyssinian district. 



In Gallaland and Shoa, Antinori and Dr. Ragazzi have 

 collected many specimens ; but although by no means 

 uncommon it appears, like all the other members of this 

 genus, to have a special predilection for certain spots. 

 Antinoi'i's specimens came from Ruggliie in Gallaland and 

 Woddeccia in Shoa, and Dr. Ragazzi's from Antoto and 

 Falle. Lord Lovat, during tlie Weld-Blundell expedition 

 from Berbera to the Blue Nile, collected specimens at Jeffi 

 Dunsa and Balti (9° N. lat., 39° E. long.), and writes : 

 "A bird of the high plateaux, often observed to perch on 

 trees"; and according to Mr. A. E. Pease, it has a clear 

 note, uttered when on the wing as well as when settled on 

 trees, and was abundant here in pairs on the higher plateau. 



Riippell, who discovered the type, records the species as 

 abundant in Abyssinia, and Heuglin frequently met with pairs 

 and small parties in the highlands of Semieu, Wogara and 



