— 23? - 



The only difference between the sexes is that the female is 

 somewhat smaller than the male. 



Irides, bill and legs as in the preceding. 



Cisticola hrachyptera brachpptera Sharpe. — Rchw, III, p. 567. 



Cisticola hypoxantha Hartl. Neumann : Journ. f. Orn., 1906, p. 276. — Cisti- 

 cola rufa (Fras.). Rchw.: op. cit. — Zediitz: Journ. f. Orn. 1916, p. 84. — 

 V. Someren: Nov. Zool., XXV, 1918, p. 288. — Cisticola rufa hypoxantha. 

 V. Someren : Ibis, 1916, p. 452. — Cisticola hrachyptera Sharpe. Sclater 

 and Mackworth-Praed : Ibis, 1918, p.- 655. 



1 cT ad. 16. 5. Soy. — 3 (5c5 ad. 6. 6., 8. 6. Mount Elgon. 



In the grass-country below the slopes of Elgon this little 

 Warbler was found not uncommonly. 



The four specimens are almost exactly alike and have the 

 faint, dark streaks to the feathers of the back. Only in respect 

 to the colour of the head do they vary a little, two of them 

 being a little lighter than the others, the latter having a dark- 

 brown head patch. In other respects they are in accordance with 

 Reich enow 's description of C. rufa. 



The measurements agrees better with Neumann's (op. 

 cit.) than with R e i c h e n o w ' s. 



Wing, tarsus, 



50, 51, 52, 52.5 mm. 20 ram. 



Irides brownish red; bill dark greyish brown (lower man- 

 dible lighter); legs pale ilesh-coloured. 



Sclater and M. - P r a e d (Ibis, 1918, p. 655) are of 

 opinion that ''hypoxantha from the Nile Province of the Uganda 

 Protectorate is identical with the form of C. brachyptera, occnrrmg 

 in the Sudan", and that "C rufa is a West African bird found 

 from the Welle river to the Cameroon and perhaps Angola". 

 I have therefore given the Elgon specimens the above name. 



V. Someren gives 42 mm. as the wing-measurement of 

 a specimen from Moroto, Turkanaland (Journ. E. Afr. Mg. N, H. 

 Soc, 1921, No. 16, p. 26). 



Cisticola hrachyptera reichenowi Mearns. — 

 Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 56, No. 25, 1911, p. 6. 



Cisticola hypoxantha reichenowi. Mearns: op. cit. 

 2 (5(5 ad. 26. 4. Mombasa. 



This form o( hypoxantha is described from Changamwe (near 

 Mombasa) and distinctly differs from the preceding in being 

 considerably paler, predominantly greyish, on the back, on 

 account of which the more or less dark-brown colour of the 

 head contrasts with the rest of the upper surface. In the pre- 

 ceding torm the colour of the head and back was the same. 



