— 232 — 



Wing, tarsus, 



69 mm. 26 mm. d* 



58 mm. 24 mm. 9 



M earns gives the measurement for aequatorialis as: 

 cfd* 66,1 mm., tarsus 24 5 mm., 99 57 mm, 23.6 mm. The 

 measurements for the specimens before me are greater, it is 

 true, but nevertheless I still place them under this form, on 

 account of the other similarities. 



V. Someren names a related form: fischeri (Ibis, 1916, 

 p. 451) and in his "Prov. Check-list of the Birds of B. E. A. 

 and Uganda", 1917, p. 57, refers this name to Reich enow: 

 Journ. f. Orn., 1911. However, there is neither in that 

 year nor any other year any form of suhruficapilla described 

 by Reichenow under this name, but certainly a Cisiicola 

 chiniana fischeri in Journ. f. Orn., 1891, p. 162. 



Cisticola strangei holuhii Pelz. — Rchv?. Ill, p. 545. 

 4 (5(5 ad. 8. 6., 19. 6., 24. 7., 25. 7. Mount Elgon. 



This bird occurred less commonly on the eastern slopes of 

 Elgon up to about 7000 feet. 



Zedlitz (Journ. f. Orn., 1916, p 82), following. Neu- 

 mann (Journ. f. Orn., 1906, p. 266—267), distinguishes three 

 forms belonging to this circle, strangei, argentea and hohtbii, of 

 which the one occurring in East Africa is the above-named. 

 When Zedlitz treats of the systematisation of the strangei 

 forms he does not express any opinion, remarkably enough, of 

 Mearns' analysis thereof (Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 25, 

 1911, p. 4 — 5). Mearns mentions strangei, pachyrhijncha and 

 a new form, kapitensis, and he gives a comparative description 

 of the three of them. He also speaks of argentea and considers 

 this "apparently as a subspecies of C. strangei^\ 



According to Mearns and Zedlitz we should thus have 

 to include the following forms: 



1. Cisticola strangei strangei (Fras.) 



Wing 69 mm , tarsus 29 mm. (ace. to Mearns). 

 Hab. West Africa from Senegambia to Angola. 



2. Cisticola strangei holuhii Pelz. 



Wing ^1—12 mm., tarsus 27—28 mm. (ace. to Granvik). 

 Hab. Brif. East Africa, German East Africa to S. 0. Africa. 



3. Cisticola strangei argentea Rchw. 



Wing 70—75 mm., tarsus 28— 30 mm. (ace. to Rchw.: Orn. 

 Monatsber. 1905, p. 25). 

 Hab. S. Somaliland. 

 4. . Cisticola strangei pachyrhyncha (Heugl.). 

 Wing 69 mm., tarsus 29 mm. 

 Hab. Bongo (Bahr el Gazal). 



