170 FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ORNITHOLOGY, VOL. I. 



135. Alcippe abyssinica (Rupp). 



Drymophila abyssinica Riippell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna 

 von Abyssinien, 1835, p. 108, pi. 40. Abyssinia. 



d\ d\ Sept., Mt. Kenya. 



Family Turdidap. 



136. Planesticus elgonensis (Sharpe). 



Merula elgonensis Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 445. Mt. Elgon, British 

 East Africa. 



9 , Jan., Kijabe. 

 9 , March, Molo. 



137. Bessonornis caffra iolsema Reichenow. 



Ornithologische Monatsberichte, VIII, (1900) p. 5. German 

 East Africa. 



d\ Jan., Kijabe. 

 ? , March, Molo. 

 See SHARPE, Ibis, 1901, p. 71, mauensis Neumann .= iol&ma. 



138. Ale the akeleyae sp. nov. 



Type, No. 32512, Field Museum of Natural History; collected 

 on Mt. Kenya, British East Africa, by Mrs. Carl E. Akeley, September 

 19, 1906. Sex not recorded. 



Description of the type: Pileum uniform slate color, cervix sepia, 

 which gradually changes on the back and scapulars to burnt umber, 

 and to a bright rusty brown on the rump and upper tail coverts. The 

 greater, median and lesser wing coverts, together with the outer 

 margins of the rectrices and secondaries, are vandyke brown. The 

 outer margins of the primaries are hair brown. The primary coverts 

 and the inner webs of the rectrices and remiges, as seen from above, 

 are dark sepia, the rhachides being dark above and pale beneath. 

 The throat and middle of breast and abdomen are buffy white. The 

 chest, sides and under tail coverts are buff. A superciliary line, 

 white anteriorly but turning to gray behind the eye, extends from 

 the base of the maxilla nearly to the posterior end of the ear- 

 coverts. The lores, a narrow eye-ring and a marginal line along the 

 sides of the mandible and into inter-rhamal apex are slaty black. 

 The ear coverts are hair-brown. The malar and post auricular regions 

 and sides of throat are slate-gray, slightly lighter than the pileum. 



