FEB. 1897. EAST AFRICAN COLLECTION OF BIRDS ELLIOT. 45 



56. Cisticola cisticola. 



Sylvia cisticola. Temm. Man. Orn. Vol. I, p. 228 (1820). 

 Cisticola cisticola. Sharpe, Cat. B., Brit. Mus. Vol. VII, p. 259 

 (1883). 



o? Silo Plain. 



57. Cisticola dodsoni. 



Cisticola dodsoni. Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. iv, p. xxix. 

 $ Haud. Iris and legs light brown. 



FAM. TURDID.E. 



58. Erythropygia leucoptera. 



Salicaria leucoptera. Riipp. Syst. Uebers, p. 38, Taf. 15 



(1845). 



$ Hullier. 

 999 Hullier. 



59. Burnesia somalica sp. nov. 



$ Las Durban. 



$ Dagahbur, Ogaden. 



Head and upper parts, ashy brown; greater wing coverts and 

 secondaries, ashy brown, edged with white; primaries, ashy 

 brown; under wing coverts, white; tail, uniform ashy brown 

 above, underneath blue-gray with a sub-terminal black bar and 

 white tip; lores and eyebrows, white; sides of face and under- 

 parts white, tinged with buff on sides of body; bill black; total 

 length, 5.90 inches; wing, 1.90; tail, 3; culmen, .40; tarsus, .90. 



This bird does not seem particularly near any described spe- 

 cies, being possibly closest to B. socialis, but there are too many 

 striking differences to make it possible to confound the two. 



60. /Edon galactodes. 



Sylvia galactodes. Temm. Man. Orn. Vol. I, p. 182 (1820). 

 $ Las Durban. 

 One specimen only of this species procured. 



61. Acrocephalus phragmitis. 



Sylvia phragmitis. Bechst. Orn. Taschenb., p. 186 (1802). 

 o? Las Durban. 



