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According toReichenow (op. cit.) the tibias are 'Muster- 

 braun". In these specimens this character varies from light- 

 brown to dark rusty-brown. 



Irides cinnamon-brown; bill greyish brown (lower mandible 

 lighter), legs greyish green. 



Schoenicola apicalis (Cab.). — Rchw. III. p. 577. 

 1 (5 ad. 6. 6. Mount Elgon. 



Found sparingly in the reeds and rushes along the moun- 

 tain streams, at an altitude of about 6500 feet, below the eastern 

 slopes of Elgon. 



Wing 62 mm., tarsus 20 mm. 



Irides brown, upper mandible greyish brown; lower man- 

 dible greyish blue, dark at the base; legs light brownish grey. 



Bradypterus cinnavwmeus cinnamomeus (Rupp.). — 

 Hchw. Ill p. 581. 



1 (5 ad. 13. 6. Mount Elgon. — 1 Q ad. 4. 5. Londiani. — 

 1 p ad. 2. 7. ; 1 (3 juv. 7. 7. Mount Elgon. 



This race was observed for the first time in the vicinity 

 of Londiani Railway Station. It frequented the withered, small 

 bushes on the outskirts of the forest at an altitude of about 

 8.000 feet. 



At Elgon I saw the bird a few times and always on the 

 fringe of the bamboo-zone at an altitude of 9. 500— 10.000 feet. 

 Here among the old, biowuish yellow bamboo-straw it was very 

 difficult to detect, v. S o m e r e n says, that he has only seen 

 it in the reed beds of swamps and rivers (Nov. Zool. XXV, 

 1918, p. 288), but on the eastern slopes of Elgon I only saw it 

 in the higher regions in the above-mentioned localities. 



Neumann has dwelt with B. cinnamomeus and B. c. sal- 

 vadorii Neum. in detail (Oin. Monatsber., 1903, p. 90—91) and 

 says that the S clioa • cinnanwmevs is larger than the East 

 African salvadoiii but the diifereuces in other respects between 

 them are not great. The former measures: cf wing 67 mm., 

 tail 77 uim.; 9 65 mm., 69 mm. The latter: cf 63 mm., 70 mm.; 

 9 60 mm., 65 mm. 



V. S m e r e n has (in agreement with Hartert) given his 

 Elgon specimens the style of salvadorii, although they have a 

 wing-measurement of 65—68 mm., and the tail is much darker 



