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2 nd rectrix. In the young birds all the tail-feathers are edged 

 with light greyish brown. 



All the specimens (except cf 10. 8. Eldoret) have abraded 

 dresses or are in various phase of moulting. 



Irides dark-brown; bill blackish or base of lower mandible 

 brownish yellow (in young birds the bill is brownish grey). 

 Legs yellowish brown-dark-brown, 



Neave in Ibis, 1910, p. 240, mentions the race from 

 upper Lualaba in Congo, but calls it simply Tephrocorys 

 cinerea (Gm.). 



Pycnonotidae. 



rhyllastrephns tephrolaemtis hikuyuensis (Sharpe). — 

 Rchw. III. p. 393. 



Arizeloeichla kikuyuensis (Sharpe). Someren : Check-list birds B. E. A. 

 1917, p. 47. — Xenocichla kikuyuensis Sharpe. Og. Grant: Zool. Res. 

 Ruw. Exp., 1910, p. 382. 



3 ^^ ad. 20. 5., 23. 5., 31. 5. Mount Elgon, 6.500—7.500 ft. 



On the eastern slopes of Mount Elgon this bird was rather 

 common and I generally met it in the undergrowth in the interior 

 of the dense forests, from the gloom of which could be heard its 

 varying and beautiful song, which at times reminded one not so 

 little of that of the song-thrush. 



Reichenow has (Orn. Monatsber., 1908, p. 47) described 

 a new species of Thyllantrephus which he has named Fh schii- 

 hotzi and which should be closely allied to JciJcuyuensis. In his 

 "Vogelf. d. Mittelafr. Seengeb.", 1912, p. 342 Reichenow calls 

 it also Fh. hilcuyuensis schuhotzi, but later on (Journ. f. Orn., 

 1918, p. 94) he says that it is synonymous with kikuyuensis. 



All the three specimens in question are in full plumage 

 and have the following measurements: 



wing 89, 89, 90 mm. tarsus 23, 24, 24 ram. 



Irides dark-brown; bill blackish; legs greyish green-brownish 

 green. 



Fhyllastrephus flavicollis pallidigula (Shaipe). — 

 Rchw. 111. p. 395. 



Xenocichla flavicollis pallidigula Sharpe. Neumann: J. f. 0. 1900, p. 292. — 

 Fhyllastrephus flavigula pallidigula (Sharpe). Reichenow : Vog. Afr. III. 

 p. 595. — Atimastilas flavicollis pallidigula (Sharpe). v. Someren: 

 Check-list birds B. E. A. 1917 p. 48. 



Sosori . . . M-suaheli. 

 1 (5 ad. 26. 7. between Soy and Elgon, 7.000 ft. 



A few specimens of this bird were found inhabiting a 

 swampy area in the acacia-country, where palms, bushes and 



