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in individuals from the same locality, and the age of the 

 featlier seems to me to have sometlung to do with this con- 

 dition of the plumage. — R. B. S.] 



IG. CiNNYKis ^QUATORiALis Reichcu. Orn. M.B. vii. 

 p. 171 (1899). 



Cinnyris acik (nee Antin.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 592. 



a, (^ ad. Athi river, Aug. 5, 1899. 



b, c, 148, 154, ^ ad. et imm. Athi river, Sept. 7, 1899. 

 [This race of C. acik, which has recently been described 



by Prof. Reichenovv, seems to me to be easily distinguishable 

 by its larger size. — ^R. B. S.] 



17. Phylloscopus TROCHILUS (Liuu.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, 

 p. 152. 

 a, ? ad. N'gong, Masailand, Dec. 18, 1898. 



18 EupRiNODEs HiLDEGARD^ Sharpe. 



Eupi'inndes hildegardce, Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. x. p. xxviii 

 (1899). 

 Nos. 160, 164, c? ? . Athi river, Sept. 7, 1899. 



These specimens were shot on the edge of a little swamp 

 close to my camp on the Athi river. During six weeks spent 

 in this neighbourhood I saw only one other specimen, which 

 unfortunately I failed to pick up when it fell into the river. 



[The pair of birds obtained by Dr. Hinde appear to me 

 to belong to a new species of Eij,prinodes, which I have 

 proposed to call, after Mrs. Hinde, Euprinodes hildegardes. 

 It may be characterized as follows : — 



E. similis E. schistaceo Cass. [cf. Sharpe, Cat. B. vii. p. 142), 

 sed rectricibus exteruis tantum albo marginatis nee 

 omnino albis, pectore pallide cervino, distinguendus. 

 Long. tot. 4*0 poll., culm. 0*4, alae 1*8, caudse 1*75, 

 tarsi 0-6. 



So far as I can judge, the nearest ally to this species is the 

 West-Ah'iceLii Euprinodes schistaceus of Cassinfrom Gaboon, 

 of which I have never seen an example. It is of a dark 

 ashy grey above, with the lores and underparts of a pale 

 isabelline-buff tint, the throat somewhat whiter. The tail- 

 feathers are blackish brown, the outermost being the shortest 

 and having the tip and the 7vhole outer web white; the 



