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Range. — Southern Ethiopia (Shoa, Arussi-Gallaland, etc.) to 

 northern Kenya Colony, south approximately to the equator. 



Remarks. — The birds of the interior of southern Kenya Colony 

 east of the Rift Valley are very variable and are intermediates 

 between this form and suahelicus. 



Gyldenstolpe (loc. cit.) has claimed that the extent of the 

 green color on the forehead and crown is variable and hence not 

 a reliable character. In answer to this I may say that a series 

 of 25 birds from Ethiopia all have this color extending farther 

 back (except in non-adult birds) than in any of a series of suaheli- 

 cus from Mozambique, Tanganyika Territory, and southeastern 

 Kenya Colony. 



Key to the Subspecies. (Adult Males Only.) 



A. Auriculars solid blackish sulfureopeclus. 



AA. Auriculars grayish black or grayish. 



B. Breast with only a slight orange tinge; auriculars gray. . . .modestus. 

 BB. Breast with a well-developed orange patch; the auriculars grayish 

 black. 

 C. Frontal stripe and inner margin of rectrices with an orange tinge. 



similis. 

 CC. Frontal stripe and inner margin of rectrices pure yellow without 

 orange tinge. 

 D. Green color restricted to the forehead, i. e., not extending beyond 



the anterior margin of the eyes suahelicus. 



DD. Green color extending on to the crown, and occasionally to the 

 occiput fricki. 



