198 BULLETIN 15 3, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



CISTICOLA BRUNNESCENS BRUNNESCENS Hcugrlin 



Cuticola hrunnescens Heuglin, Jouru. fur Orn., 18G2, p. 289 : Godofelasi, Sera- 



weh Province, Ethiopia. 

 Specimens collected: 



1 male, 1 female, Adis Abeba, Ethiopia, January 10, 1912. 



1 male, 2 females, Arussi Plateau, Ethiopia, February 14-17, 1912. 



These specimens are all in winter plumage, agreeing with the dates 

 for this plumage given by Lynes.*® Their dimensions are as fol- 

 lows : Males — wing, 52, 57 ; tail, 30, 33 ; culmen from base, 12.5, . 



Females — wing, 51, 53, 55; tail, 32, 32, 33; culmen from base, 12.5, 

 12, 12 mm. 



Lynes does not give any details as to the altitudinal range of this 

 warbler, but the limits must be very wide. Mearns recorded the 

 altitude on the Arussi Plateau birds as 9,500 feet. On the other 

 hand, Lynes records this form in western Somaliland, which is much 

 lower. 



The breeding season in southern Ethiopia appears to be from 

 May to September. 



CISTICOLA CHINIANA HUMILIS Madarasz 



Cisticola humilis Madabasz, Orn. Monatsb., 1904, p. 1G8 : Settima Mountains, 

 Kenya Colony. 



Specimens collected : 



2 males (l^female), Tharaka district, Kenya Colony, August 14, 1912. 

 1 male, Athi River near Juja Farm, Kenya Colony, August 31, 1912. 



These three specimens are really intermediate between humilis and 

 ukamha but are nearer to the former race, with which they are here 

 identified. The specimen from the Tharaka district, which I take 

 to be a female in spite of the fact that the collector sexed it as a 

 male, has a wing length of only 62.5 mm, tail 54 mm. The other 

 two specimens have wings measuring 66 mm each. All three birds 

 are in good fresh plumage. 



Lynes *'' records this bird from only as far north as Mount Elgon, 

 Lake Baringo, Lake Hannington, Barsaloi, and the Northern Guaso 

 Nyiro River. In the collections of the United States National Mu- 

 seum there are two specimens of this race from the summit of 

 Mount Lololokui (6,000 feet). This mountain, north of Mount Kenya 

 by a very considerable distance, constitutes another far northern 

 locality from which humilis is known. 



In a southerly direction the form is known all the way to the 

 Tanganyikan border, always only in the high country. 



«Ibis, 1930, Suppl., p. 162. 

 « Ibis, 1930, Suppl., p. 267. 



