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for it can hardly be the Arabian form, and its habitat is also 

 far away from Abyssinia and north Somaliland.' 



Van Someren (loc. cit., p. 241) obtained two birds at Naivasha 

 which agreed with the Arabian form, but not with Doherty's 

 birds. He raises the question as to whether sclateri may not 

 be migratory. I have seen no material from southern Kenya 

 Colony and therefore cannot say much about either Doherty's 

 or van Someren's birds. However, experience with other birds 

 would lead me to feel that their birds may be a fourth race, 

 but hardly the same as those inhabiting the Uraguess-Lololokui 

 area. For one thing, the paler coloration is so uniform in the 

 three birds from the latter region that Hartert would have noted 

 it, had it been present in Doherty's Kikuyu series. 



Material examined. — Petrophila rufocinerea rufocinerea: 2 

 adult males, 4 adult females, 1 immature male, all from Ethiopia; 

 Petrophila rufocinerea tenuis: 1 adult male, 2 adult females, from 

 Mount Lololokui. 



