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by this Expedition may, however, be plainly shown by the letters used in the tables, 

 which are as follows: 



A. = ranging all över the .ZEthiopian region; 



At. = widely distributed across tropical Africa; 



E. = East Africa s. str., that is German East Africa, southern and central 



parts of British East Africa; 

 Ea. = all över East Africa; and then, of course, often including Angola and other 



parts of the continent which zoologically belong to East Africa; 

 Eni. = East Africa, south to Nyassa land; 

 Ez. == East Africa south to the Zambesi district; 

 Es. = East Africa to South Africa; 

 Eno. = East Africa to Abyssinia or beyond Somaliland ; sometimes also westward 



to Senegambia; 

 Ef. = forests of East Africa, west to Elgon or Mau ; 

 EWc. = East Africa from Kilimanjaro westwards through the Central African lake 



district; 

 S. 1 = Somaliland; 



Se. = Somaliland and south ward to Tana or Kilimanjaro; 

 Sno. = Somaliland and northward; sometimes also westward through North Africa 



to Senegambia. 

 W. = West African forest -region; 

 Wc. = Central Lake district of West African forest -region. 



In addition to the general geographical distribution of the birds collected by this Ex- 

 pedition I have also tried to give some expression for the main biotopographical occurrence 

 of the species in the different types of the landscape (as described above) on the opposite 

 side of the tables. On the first table is thus recorded the birds collected or observed on 

 cultivated land, on grass-steppe, on bush-steppe, and on acacia-steppe in the country 

 round Nairobi and along the road from there to Meru borna. 



With »cultivated land » in the first column is, however, necessarily meant not only 

 such land which actually and for the present is kept in cultivation but also such which has 

 been cultivated before and then abandoned and neglected. Such land is, thanks to the 

 richness of the soil and the favourable climate, very soon overgrown again, as described 

 above, by a rank vegetation. In this vegetation which is somewhat different according 

 to the situation, a great number of small birds find their refuge and suitable nesting places. 

 In such fields of bush and tall weeds one is apt to see pairs of Reichenow's Weaver (Plo- 

 ceus reichenowi) now and then exposing their black and yellow plumage, but when 

 danger approaches diving down to safety among the vegetation. The Bronze Mannikin 

 (Spermestes cucullatus), Estrilda astrild minor, and Urceginthus bengalus appear to like 

 Solanum-bush, while Lagonosticta brunneiceps ruberrima is found as well in such as more 



1 A big letter is used for Somaliland not as if it should be regarded as an equivalent to East or West 

 Africa from a zoogeographical point of view, but because I wish to make it casier to see what a number of 

 Somalibirds has been found in a certain district by this Expedition. 



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