152 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on Birds 



105. Phylloscopus trochilus. 



Phylloscopus trochilus (Linn.) ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. V. p. 56 (1881) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 481. 



a. Ganti, Abyssinia, 28 Marcb, 1899. (No. 461.) 



Iris brown ; bill ligbt; legs dark. 



[The Willow-Warbler was once seen, and then only a 

 single specimen. — L.] 



106. Phylloscopus rufus. 



Fhylloscopus riifus (Bechst.) ; Seebohra, Cat B. Brit. Mus. 

 V. p. 60 (1881) ; Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 408 [N. Somali- 

 land] . 



a. S- Cbelunco, Abyssinia, 4 January, 1899. (No. 109.) 



b. ?. Baroma, Abyssinia, 10 January, 1899. (No. 14'3.) 

 a. fris browu ; bill and legs dark. 



h. Iris light hazel ; bill and legs black. 

 [The ChifFchaff was very common in all the wooded valleys 

 of Abyssinia. — L.] 



107. LUSCINIOLA ABYSSINICA. 



Lusciniola ahyssinica Weld-Blundell & Lovat, Bull. B. O. C. 

 vol. X. p. xix (1899). 



a. S- Lake Cliercher, Abyssinia, 12 January^ 1899. 

 (No. 165.) [Type of the species.'] 



Though allied to L. thoracica (Blyth) and L. mandeUii 

 (Brooks), this Grasshopper- Warbler may be at once dis- 

 tinguished by having the upper parts of a darker and richer 

 brown, tinged with rufous on the lower back and rump. 

 The buff-coloured chest is separated from the white of tlie 

 throat by a fairly well-marked band of blackish spots, the 

 sides of the body and flanks are dull rusty brown, and the 

 under tail-coverts uniform dull rust-colour. The first 

 primary-quill is two thirds of the length of the second, 

 which is about equal to the tenth ; the fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth are subequal and longest. Iris brown ; upper mandible 

 and the extremity of the lower blackish horn, the rest of the 

 under mandible whitish. Total length about 6*0 inches, 

 culmen 065, wing 2'1, tail 2'4, tarsus 0*8. 



