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The two Juvenal birds are fully grown and resemble the adults 

 generally, but are distinctly tinged with greenish olive and have the 

 mandible largely yellowish in color. 



Some of the adult birds have considerable whitish or grayish 

 white on the forehead, while others have none. 



One of the birds from the Endoto Mountains, collected on July 23, 

 is molting the rectrices; another taken on August 16, on the Tana 

 River, is molting the remiges; the rest of the birds are in rather 

 worn or, at least, not very fresh, plumage, but do not show any signs 

 of ecdysis. 



This warbler is a denizen of thorny thickets, and, being of a rather 

 secretive nature, is more often heard than seen. Pease '^ found it 

 fairly common in thorn-bushes in the Danakil coastal area, as did 

 Erlanger in Gurraland. Jackson^- met with it in southern Kenya 

 Colony and writes that it "is very plentiful in suitable places, but it is 

 essentially a bird of the wilderness. It is particularly abundant be- 

 tween Tara and Mt. Mauungu." 



Erlanger " found this bird breeding in April in Gurraland, four 

 eggs apparently comprising a clutch. Jackson shot a breeding 

 female on December 30 at Mauungu, southern Kenya Colony. 



Mearns wrote on the label of one of the adult males, "note a loud, 

 monotonous click." 



APALIS CINEREA CINEREA (Sharpe) 



Etiprinodes ciiwreus Shakpb, Ibis, 1891, p. 120: Mt. Elgon. 

 Specimens collected: 2 females. Escarpment, Kenj-a Colony, September 6-8, 

 1912. 



Granvik ^* separated the birds of the Kikuyu highlands under the 

 name ?ninor, based on their smaller size. Grote ^^ renamed it 

 granviki as minor Granvik was preoccupied by minor Ogilvie-Grant 

 (1917). 



In his notes on Granvik's type, Gyldenstolpe ''^ states that while 

 he would be inclined to synonymize minor with cinerea, he finds 

 that some very slight differences do exist between Elgon birds 

 (typical cinerea) and those forms east of the Rift Valley, and so 

 he tentatively recognizes the eastern race. 



Granvik does not say where the ranges of the two forms found 

 in East Africa meet, and it is therefore a little difficult to know 



:i Ibis, 1901, p. 649. 



'2 Ibid., p. 54. 



"Journ. fur Orn., 1905, pp. 722-723. 



'^Journ. ftir Orn., 1923, Sonderheft, p. 243. 



"Orn. Monatsb., 1927, p. 23. 



™Arkiv for Zool., vol. 19A, no. 1, p. 48, 1926. 



