494 Dr. S. L. Hiude on 



7. Passer ruficinctus Fischer & Reicheii. ; Hiude^ Ibis^ 

 1898, p. 578. 



a, S ad. N'goii^, Dec. 18, 1898. 



b, ad. N'gong, Jan. 1899. 



The habits of this species are similar to those of the 

 European House- Sparrow. 



8. Serinus AFFiNis (Reichen.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1899, p. 620. 

 Crithagra striolata afjinis Reichen. Auk, xiv. p. 157. 



a, ? ad. N'gong, Nov. 12, 1898. 

 No. 146, ? ad. N'gong, Jan. 18, 1899. 

 Very common in this district. 



9. MiRAFRA AFRiCANA Smith ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 260. 

 a, b, ^ ad. Machako's, Aug. 1898. 



Very common in the open grass-country. 



10. Pyrrhulauda leucoparia (Fischer & Reicheuow, 

 J. f. O. 1884, p. 55) ; Hinde, Ibis, 1898, p. 579. 



a, b, cJ ad. Machako^s, June 5, 1898. 



c, ? juv. „ Aug. 6, 1898. 



d, e, ? ad. Athi river, Sept. 12, 1899. 



Seen in large flocks at dusk on old camp-grounds, roads, 

 or grassy plains. 



[The young bird is brown, like the adult female, but is 

 mottled with ashy margins to the feathers, as in the Larks 

 of the genus Alauda ; these margins are very distinct on the 

 wing-coverts, and the edges of the primaries and tail-feathers 

 are decidedly rufous. The feathers of the chest and flanks 

 are mottled with dusky sub-terminal spots. — R. B. S.] 



11. Motacilla campestris Pall. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. 

 Mus. X. p. 510, pi. vi. figs. 1, 2 (1885). 



a, ? ad. N'gong, Jan. 12, 1899. 



12. Anthus rufulus (VieiU.) ; Hinde, Ibis, 1898, p. 579. 

 a, ^ ad. Machako's. 



Common in the native gardens on the lower parts of the 

 hill-sides. 



13. Parus albxventris Shelley ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, 

 p. 595. 



a, b, 155, J ? ad. Athi river, Sept. 7, 1899. 



