416 Capt. G. E. Shelley 07i a 



to a subspecies on account of its small size. Total length 

 8*3 inches, culnien 0'95, wing 5*3, tail 2*5, tarsus 2*3. In 

 colouring it resembles the typical race, but is much smaller, 

 about equal in size to C. senegalensis and C. burchelli. 



'' Fairly common in small flocks throughout the plateau. 

 Legs white.'^ 



58. Rhinoptilus cinctus. 



Cursorius cinctus, Heugl. Syst. Uebcrs. 1856, no. 555 ; id. 

 Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 972; Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, p. 115 (Massa 

 and Masai). 



Hemerodromus cinctus, Heugl. Ibis, 1863, p. 31, pl.'i. 

 (good). 



Hab. N.E. and E, Africa: Upper White Nile, Somali, 

 Massa, and Masai. 



" Only one pair met with, on the hills near Berbera^ about 

 the middle of April^ at which season they were apparently 

 breeding.^' 



59. Rhinoptilus gkacilis. 



Corsorius gracilis, Fischer & Reichen. J. f. O. 1844, p. 781 

 (Masai); Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 390 ; id. J. f. O. 

 1885, p. 115. 



(^ ad. Above pale cinnamon, fading into sandy buff on the 

 neck ; crown with a black irregular subterminal bar to each 

 feather; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and inner secondaries 

 with a black subterminal bar to each feather, with the broad 

 margins beyond sandy buff ; quills, secondaries, and inner 

 primaries cinnamon, passing gradually into dark brown on 

 the outer primaries and the primary-coverts; upper tail- 

 coverts huffish white ; tail pale cinnamon, fading into white 

 towards the outer feathers, the middle feathers with blackish 

 centres and a partial subterminal bar, these dark portions 

 gradually fade away towards the outer feathers, where they 

 are finally only represented by a dusky blotch on the inner 

 web near the end of the outer feather. Underparts and sides 

 of the head buff, fading into white on the upper throat ; two 

 black collars above and below the crop ; the feathers of the 

 lower throat have mostly very narrow dusky shaft-stripes; 



