MAY, 1909. BIRDS FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA DEARBORN. 171 



The bend of the wing, the under wing coverts and the axillaries are 

 white, and the inner margins of the secondaries are pale buff. The 

 bill of the dry skin is black, and the feet pale. On the ends of the 

 greater wing coverts are flecks of cinnamon, such as appear in the 

 first winter plumage of thrushes of the genus Hylocichla. Wing 94 mm. ; 

 tail 65 mm.; exposed culmen 16 mm.; tarsus 28 mm. 



This species resembles poliocephala more than any other yet 

 described. It is named in honor of Mrs. Akeley, whose pluck and 

 endurance enabled her to contribute very materially to the results 

 of the memorable African expedition conducted by her husband in 

 1905-07. 



139. Tarsiger orientalis Fischer & Reichenow-. 



Journal fur Ornithologie, 1884, p. 57. Pangani, German East 

 Africa. 



6\ 9 , Sept., Mt. Kenya. 



140. Pratincola axillaris Shelley. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society, London, 1884, pp. 556, 557. 

 Mt. Kilimanjaro, German East Africa. 

 d\ d\ 9, Jan., Kijabe. 

 d\ 9, Mar., 9, Apr., Molo. 



141- Myrmecocichla aethiops cryptoleuca (Sharpe}. 



Myrmecocichla cryptoleuca Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 445. Kikuyu, 

 British East Africa. 



d\ Jan., Kijabe. 



d\ Nov., 9 , Apr., Nairobi. 



142. Saxicola pleschanka (Lepech.). 



Motacilla pleschanka Lepechin, Novi Commentarii Academiae 

 Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae (St. Petersburg) XIX. (1770) 



P- 503- 



cT, cT, 9 , Dec., Mt. Lucania. 



See ERLANGER, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1905, p. 748, seasonal 

 variation; NEUMANN, ibid, 1906, p. 293, variation. 



143. Saxicola oenanthe (Linn.}. 



Motacilla oenanthe Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, loth ed. (1758), 

 p. 186. 



cT, 9, 9 , 9 ,Dec., Lucania. 



cT, cK 9 , Oct., 9,9, Nov., Nairobi. 



See ERLANGER, Journal fur Ornithologie, 1905, p. 747, sub- 

 species reduced. 



