652 Messrs. Ogilvie-Grant and Rcid on Birds 



The pair of Grey Fantail-Warblers obtained by Mr. Pease 

 shew conckisively that C. somalica Sharpe and C. cinereola 

 Salvad. are respectively the male and female of the same 

 species. 



a. S • Wing 2-6 inches, tail 2'3. 



b. ? . Wing 2*15 inches, tail 1-95. 



132. CiSTICOLA ROBUSTA. 



Cisticola robusta (E,iipp.) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. 

 xxi. p. 146 (1884) ; xxvi. p. 252 (1888). 



Cisticola erythrogenys Grant (nee Rlipp.), Ibis, 1900, 

 p. 160. 



a. S ' -^dis Ababa, S. Abyssinia, 16th Jan. No. 377. 



Iris brown ; bill black ; legs brown. 



We have now no doubt that C. erythrogenys (Riipp.) is a 

 perfectly distinct species, and is not, as Dr. Sharpe supposed, 

 founded on the female of C. robusta (Riipp.). Hiippell 

 distinctly says that the type of his Drijmoica erythrogenis 

 is an adult male. Both Dr. Finsch and Count Salvadori 

 disagreed with Dr. Sharpe, and regarded C. erythrogenys as 

 a distinct species; but Count Salvadori made the mistake 

 of uniting C. erythrogenys with C. marginalis Heugl., 

 which is a very different species from the White Nile and 

 has the upper tail-coverts buff, devoid of black spots. 



[The Great Abyssinian Fantail-Warbler was shot on the 

 mountain-side, behind the British Compound ; it was never 

 seen below the Abyssinian plateau. — A. E. P.] 



133. Cisticola erythrogenys. 



Dryinoica erxjthrogenis Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 34, pi. 12 

 (1845). 



Cisticola erythrogenys Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xxi. 

 p. 148 (1884) (nee syn.) ; xxvi. p. 253 (1888). 



Cisticola lugubris Grant (uec lllipp.), Ibis, 1900, p. 160. 



a. ? . Jeffi Dunsa, S. Abyssinia, 28th Dec. No. 328. 



b, c. (J ? . Adis Ababa, S. Abyssinia, 4th-6th Jan. 

 Nos. 351 & 360. 



Iris brown ; bill black; legs black or light brown. 



