. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. [: I02(l)]. Fig. 1. The distribution by £° squares of the Stripe-backed Prinia Prima gracilis in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia. X = recorded in the respective £° square. (Drawing by Alain Peeters). south and west of there the species is unknown. However, to the north and nearer to the coast, Dr. D. Summers-Smith (in litt. 11 Nov 1972) reported it from Lake Giuletti (i3°i5'N, 4i°oo/E) in 1972, and to the east I found the birds in 3 years actually below sea level in the Dobi depression (n°5 3'N, 4i°42'E). On the Red Sea coast
. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. [: I02(l)]. Fig. 1. The distribution by £° squares of the Stripe-backed Prinia Prima gracilis in Ethiopia, Djibouti and Somalia. X = recorded in the respective £° square. (Drawing by Alain Peeters). south and west of there the species is unknown. However, to the north and nearer to the coast, Dr. D. Summers-Smith (in litt. 11 Nov 1972) reported it from Lake Giuletti (i3°i5'N, 4i°oo/E) in 1972, and to the east I found the birds in 3 years actually below sea level in the Dobi depression (n°5 3'N, 4i°42'E). On the Red Sea coast it occurs in a variety of coastal vegetation, including young mangroves. It was common around Djibouti (u°35'N, 43°09'E) when I was there in December 1975. In 1978 I first found Stripe-backed Prinias on 3 November in a narrow belt of Atriplex growing on beach-head dunes in the Mailable area (o2°i2'N, 45°38'E) at 35 km northeast of Mogadishu in southern Somalia. Since then I have searched many kilometres of coastline from 45 km northeast of Uarsheik (o2°i8'N, 45°49'E) to Kismayu (oo°22'S, 42°33'E) and beyond and found this prinia only at the northern end of this stretch of coast, at 6 sites which are (Fig. 1.), from north to south:—30 km northeast of Uarsheki (=Uarsciek) (o2°26'N, 46°o2'E); 14 km northeast of Uarsheik (o2°22'N, 45°45/E); Mailable area; 20 km northeast of Mogadishu (o2°o8'N, 45°3i'E); 14 kmnorthof Mogadishu (o2°o7'N, 45°29'E); Mogadishu airport (o2°o2'N, 45°i9'E).. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Ornithologists' Club. London : British Ornithologists' Club
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