— 236 — 



and paler, especially the lower surface, which is pure white, the 

 throat likewise. The fore-neck and flanks are pale yellowish 

 brown. The rump is yellowish brown. 



Wing 47 mm.; tarsus 20 mm. 

 Irides dark-brown; bill yellowish brown, upper mandible 

 darker; legs pale flesh-coloured. 



Cisticola terrestris ugandae Rchw. — Orn. Monatsber., 1908, 



p. 13. 



2 (5(5 ad. 11. 8. Eldoret. 



Fairly common in the grass-country in the Elgon re- 

 gions and at Eldoret, and differs quite distinctly from the 

 preceding by having the head, as a rule, more rusty-brown, 

 the rump rusty brown and the under parts of the body almost 

 uniformly pale yellowish brown. On the other hand 1 am not 

 able to find any noteworthy difference in the colour of the tail- 

 feathers, although Reichenow (op. cit.) intimates that such 

 a difference exists. In the characters given they differ, however 

 considerably from the preceding and therefore I have given them 

 Reich enow's name. In some respects — measurements, 

 colour of upper parts — they even agree fairly well with 

 Heuglin's eximia (Ibis, 1869, p. 106) and one migl>t just as 

 well consider them to be intermediate between that race and 

 ugandae. 



Wing 46, 47 mm. Tarsus 20 mm. 



Irides, bill and legs as in the preceding. 



Cisticola chubhi Sharpe. — Rchw. Ill, p. 561. 



4 (5(5 ad. 20. 5., 3. 6., 22. 6. ; 2 QQ ad. 2. 6., 3. 6. Mount Elgon. 



This species occurred up to about 7.500 feet on the eastern 

 slopes of Elgon and was common in the open grass-country. 



All the Elgon specimens are greyish brown above (not 

 brown, as Reichenow states), otherwise they agree with the 

 description (op. cit.). According to Reichenow this species 

 differs, among other things, from nigriloris in the tarsus being 

 shorter: in the latter 26 — 27 mm., in the former 24—25 mm. 

 As appears from the table below the length of the tarsus of 

 these cfcT individuals is, without exception, 27 mm., whence the 

 difference between the species mentioned does not seem to ex- 

 ist. 



Wing, tarsus, 



64, 65, 66, 66 mm. 27 mm. cfcT. 

 59, 60 mm. 25 mm. 99- 



