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Phi{n>< of Kilinianjaro — Plain-'': )i<_<i7' Mount Kilimanjaro — Plains 

 east of Mount luUmanjaro. — Near the east base of the mountain. 

 August, September, October, December, 1888; flanuary andJuly, 1889. 



Useri., IviJlnijinjiiro — T'scri River, —^q^y the east base of Mount 

 Kilimanjaro. July, August, September, October, December, 1888; 

 January and July, 188!>. 



Taveta. — In British East Africa, about iJO or 25 miles southeast of 

 Mount Kilimanjaro. February, March, April, May. June, July, 

 August, September, November, Deceml)er, 1888; Jaiuiary, P'ebruar}', 

 and April, 1889. 



Plains of Taveta. — Near Taveta. June, Jul}^, and August, 1888. 



Lumi Rivtv. — In the vicinity of Taveta. October and November, 

 1888. 



Lal-e Jipe. — In (lorinan East Africa, 10 or 15 miles south of Taveta. 

 May, 1888. 



Plains of Liike Jipe. — Near Lake Jipe. May, 1888. 



Lalie Chala. — Between Taveta and the l)ase of Mount Kilimanjaro, 

 10 or 15 miles northwest of the former. July and August, 1888. 



Kahe. — South of Mount Kilimanjaro, and west of Taveta. May, 

 September, November, 1888; August, 1889. 



Plains soutincest of Mount Kilimanjaro. — May, 1889. 



Afusc]ii(-ay(-rJiini. — In German East Africa, southwest of Mount 

 Kilimanjaro. October and November, 1888. 



Teita llills. — In British East Africa, about 75 miles east of Mount 

 Kilimanjaro. January, 1890. 



Monihasa. On the coast of southern British East Africa, about 150 

 miles north of Zanzibar. January, 1890. 



Mount Kilimanjaro is classic ground, ornithologically, and few 

 localities in Africa are now better known. Situated, as it is, approxi- 

 mately midway between north and south, the Kilimanjaro district is 

 part Abyssinian, part South African in its athnities, possessing at the 

 same time, however, a considerable proportion of endemic forms. 

 Strange to say a surprisingly small number of the mountain species 

 are identical with those of Mount Kenia in British East Africa, some 

 2(M) miles to the northward, a fact to which attention has already been 

 called. 



Several collectors preceded Doctor Abbott in this region and many 

 have followed him, l)ut few have achieved more important results, 

 and it is a matter of great regret that the published report on this 

 material should have been so long delayed. Dr. Charles W. Richmond 

 based the genus Heterotrogon '^ on specimens from this collection, and 

 described ten new forms,* but little else concerning these birds of 

 Doctor Abbott's has hitherto been printed, though many of them were 



"Proc. r. S. Nat. Mu.«., XVII, 1895, pp. (>01-60S. 

 '>Auk, XIV, 1897, pp. 154-164. 



