NOTES ON BIEDS FROM GERMAN AND BRITISH EAST 



AFRICA. 



By IIauky ('. Obekholskr, 



Nftistaid <)rnilhol()(jisl, Department of Agriculture. 



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^BW . L. Abbott in the \icinity of Mount Kiliniiinjaro," considorablc 

 ^^naterial from neij'-hljoring- regions has been examined, which throws 

 light on some of the species involved. Besides U. S. National Museum 

 specimens, there were a number from Mombasa, British East Africa, 

 made available in the present connection through the kindness of Dr. 

 W. J. Holland, director of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg, Pennsyl- 

 vania, who has also obliginglv permitted the inclusion here of notes on a 

 number of interesting species not represented in Doctor Abbott's col- 

 lection; and the writer''s thanks are due him for this and other courte- 

 sies. For purposes of convenient collation, references to Doctor 

 Holland's paper on Mombasa birds* are given under most of the species 

 treated. 



Family CEDICNEMID.E. 



CEDICNEMUS VERMICULATUS VERMICULATUS Cabanis. 

 (h'dictiemns rermiculatu.t Cabanis, Journ. f. Oriiith., ISfjS, p. 4\'A (East Africa). 

 A single specimen from Mombasa, recorded by Doctor Holland as 

 CEdicnemiis capensU^'' l)elongs undoubtedly to (J. vennicalatus. It is 

 a female in worn plumage, and is of interest from this northern local- 

 it}^, even though previously i-e[)orted from the same pla(;e. 



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Family COLUMBID.E. 



TURTUR SEMITORQUATUS INTERMEDIUS Erlanger. 



T^u-rfu- seniitorryua^MS mtermerfms Erlangek, Journ. f. Ornitli., 1905, p. Vl\ (Rol)a- 

 8chalo, lake region of .southern Slioa, southern Abyssinia). 

 A specimen from Mombasa ''' is identical with others from Tavetaand 

 Mount Kilimanjaro, and belongs apparently to this form. 



«Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVIII, 1905, pp. 823-938. 



''Ann. Carnegie Mus., Ill, 1905, pp. 453-463. 



'"Idem, p. 453. 



(iTurtur semitorqaatus Holland, Ann. Carnegie Mus., Ill, 1905, p. 454. 



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