— 204 — 



One of the males has the ear-coverts whitish with a faint 

 yellowish brown wash, another has them pale rusty-brown. In 

 the younj^ bird they are greyish brown and not sharply distin- 

 guished from the predominant greyish brown sides of the head. 

 The female is, as Reich enow (op. cit.) writes, more 

 reddish brown on the upper surface and has the black patches 

 of the underparts surrounded by a dark reddish brown border. 

 The young bird has (in addition to the above-mentioned 

 character) the throat and fore-neck black, but lacks the black 

 patches around the ear-coverts. 



Wing, tarsus, 



75, 78 mm. 18, 19 mm. cfcf ad. 

 75 mm. 18 mm. cf juv. 



73 mm. 17 mm. 9 ^^• 



Irides cinnamon-brown; bill greyish white; legs grey with 

 a faint yellowish red wash. 



Calandrella cinerea saturatior Kchw. — Rchw. Ill, p. 378. 



Tephrocorys cinera. Neum. : Journ. f. Orn., 1906, pp. 238—239. — Neave: 

 Ibis, 1910, p. 240. 



2 (3(5 ad. 23. 4. Lake Naiwasha. — 2 (^^ ad. 6. 5. Londiani. — 



2 (5(3 ad. 11. 5., 10. 8. Eldoret. — 1 Q ad. 23. 4. Lake Naiwasha. — 



2 QQ juv. 6. 5. Londiani. 



On the shores of Lake Naiwasha and at Londiani this bird 

 was rather numerous, but on the grass-plains in the neighbour- 

 hood of Eldoret it was less common. It always appeared in 

 small flocks. 



Neumann (Journ f. Orn., 1906, p. 239) has described a 

 new form of this group from the Hanasch district and thus at 

 present we have to include the following forms (of which, how- 

 ever, Neumann rightly considers No. 2 doubtful). 



1. Calandrella cinerea cinerea (Gm.). 



Hab. South Africa to Benguella and Maschona. 



2. Calendrella cinerea saturatior Kchw. 



Hab. East Africa, Angola. 



3. Calandrella cinerea ruficeps liiipp. 



Hab. North-east Africa. 



4. Calandrella cinera erlangeri Neum. 



Hab. Hanssh territory. 



As regards saturatior it seems to me as if N e u m a n n' s 

 doubt as to the genuineness of this form is well-founded. For 

 among the 7 adults lying before me there are two which have 

 the outer web of the outermost rectrices white, the others have 

 a more or less greyish white or greyish brown outer-web. Be- 

 sides, all of them have a broader or narrower white edge to the 



