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drah-brown like the back; bastard-wing, primary-coverts and 

 quills b ack, tipped with drab-brown, the secondaries Idged w h t h e 

 same colonr, the innermost being externally drab-brown, interndlj 

 broom'vf^^''l tail-coverts like the back; tail-feather^ blackish, 

 broadly tipped with drab-brown, white at the ends, extending alone' 

 the outer web of the ontermost ; crown of head 'and nape^peady 

 gre>; lores drab-brown; eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts, cheeks, fhroat 

 a under snr ace of body drab-brown, including (he thigh^, undei' 

 r,nf n'" 1 fr.'^'' '"'^ a^i"aries; quills below duskv brown 

 sabellme along he inner edge : " biU black ; feet dusky flesh-colour 



AfSa^^el^^egSir ""'"^-^'^ ''''''''' '' ^^^^^^ 



a. Ad. sk. White Nilp n , •■ 



h ^ nfl cl- T^ vf ^ . . , ,„ Purchased. 



6. d ad. sk. Eedjaf, Equatonal Africa, July 3 Shelley Coll. 



c 2 ad sk. Eedjaf, December 2. Emin Pasha IP " 



f S ad S" w'°' ''T' ^.t"'^ ^.'"'"^- Sidney ?oIL ^'^•^■ 



e. 6 ad. sk. Waso-neibor, Masai-Land, April 1.3 Shelley Coll. 

 {Dr. Fischer). •' 



3. Philsterus dorsalis. 



NigTita canidorsalis, Eeichen. J. f 0. 1887, p. 41 ilavsn cal ) 

 NjgTita dorsahs, Iiek/>e72. t. c. p. 71. ^ ^ ^ ■'' 



Similar to P. arnaudi^ but differing in its grey back, darker grey 



S lor;i'^'",^"!l-^t?' i" "^"^^"-^ ^^^ Wack tail-bands ^S 



4. Philaeterus cahanisi. 



Nigrita cahanisi i^,W,er Sf MeicMn. J. f. O. 1884, p. 54; Fischer 

 Zeitschr. ges 0,n. i. p. 330 fl884):'u/. J. f. O.lBm, p 134- 

 Beichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 71. •' ' ^' ' 



PMseteruscabanisi, Shelhij, Ibis, 1886, p. 308; id. Ibis, 1888, p. 292, 



Achth female General colour above clear drab-brown, the upper 

 tail-coverts a little more blackish brown; wing-coverts like the 

 back; quills ashy brown, externally like the back ; tail-feathers 

 blacJush, the outer ones fringed with white along the end of the 

 inner web ; crown of head, lores, feathers round eye and upper part 

 of ear-coyerts black ; remainder of sides of face, cheeks, and under 

 surface of body white, with a streak of black down the centre of 



WftT -li'^i^f /^ ^'^^^ '^^^^ ^"°^' drab-brown, the feathers 

 mottled with black spots ; thighs and under tail-coverts white • 

 under wing-coyerts and axillaiies white, the outer coverts pale 

 drab ; quills below pale dusky, ashy along the inner edge : "bill 



