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The type specimen (No. 381 Coll. G. L. Harrison, Jr., El Bolossa 

 swamp, Brit. E. Africa, September 19, 1904, ad. c?) is nearly uniform 

 above, the dark shaft stripes being but faintly indicated. The pre- 

 vailing color is sepia, with the edges of the feathers lighter, the head 

 slightly more tawny than the back, being about raw umber of Ridg- 

 way's Nomenclature of Colors. The edges of the flight feathers are 

 russet, the tail bistre with lighter edgings. Below grayish w^hite, 

 darker and inclining to buff on the sides and flanks, only approaching 

 pure white on the throat, chin and middle of the abdomen, thighs 

 russet. Length (skin) 155 mm., wing 61, tail 71. 



The other specimen is in the juvenal plumage and is uniform russet 

 brown above the under surface more suffused with buff than in the 

 adult. 



The species is named in honor of Mr. George Leib Harrison, Jr. 



Through the courtesy of the U. S. National Museum I have received 

 through Dr. Chas. W. Richmond a series of C. prinoides, collected by 

 Dr. W. L. Abbott on Mt. Kilimanjaro, for comparison with this spec- 

 imen. I find that C. harrisoni is at once distinguished by the more 

 uniform, less striped back, by the brighter, more ochraceous tone of 

 the upper parts and the lack of decided contrast between the color of 

 the head and back. The bill is moreover distinctly more slender. 



Another Kilimanjaro specimen, identified by Mr. Oberholser^ as C. 

 hunteri, is also before me, and appears to be more nearly allied to C. 

 prinoides than to C. harrisoni, differing in its duller, more sooty col- 

 oration. While all three are closely related, C. harrisoni stands at one 

 extreme of the series well removed from the other two. 



130. Cisticola oisticola (Temm.). 



Sylvia cisticola Temm., Man. d'Orn., I, p. 228, 1820. [Portugal and Spain.] 

 Nairobi, May 17; Naivasha, July 31; El Bolossa swamp, September 

 10. 'Trides brown, bill dusky, feet flesh color." 



131. Cisticola lugubris Rupp. 



Sylvia (Cisticola) lugubris Riipp., N. W., p. Ill, 1835. [Gondar, Abj^ssinia.] 

 Nairobi, May 17; Naivasha, June 8. 



132. SchGenicola apicalis Cab. 



Schamicola apicalis Cabanis, Mus. Hein. Th., I, p. 43 note, 1850. [Kaftir- 

 land.] 



Thika river. May 22; Tana river, June 3. "Irides light brown, bill 



dusky, feet flesh color." 



3 Cf. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XXVIII, p. 902. 



