in Uganda and on the Upper Congo. 295 



No. 5078. b. c?= Lake Kivu, 4900 ft., 15tli Dec. 



Iris dark hazel; upper mandible black, lower niandible 

 grey ; feet pale brown. 



The specimen of the Fan-tailed Reed-Warbler from 

 Mbarara has the colour of the back of a rather darker shade 

 of brown than is usual. It is not a fully adult bird, for the 

 yellowish-white feathers down the middle of the breast and 

 belly are evidently remains of the immature plumage. 

 There is a similar dark-backed specimen in the British 

 Museum from the Nyika Plateau (6000 feet), procured by 

 Mr. A. Whyte in June 1896. 



CisTicoLA piCTiPENxis ]Madarasz. 



Cisticola pictipennis Keich. iii. p. 564; (1905). 



No. 5204, 5025. a, b. c? ? • Mfumbiro Volcanoes, 

 5000 ft., 17th Nov. 



Iris brown ; upper mandible black, lower mandible pale 

 yellow; feet pale yellow. 



I am a little doubtful whether I am right in referring 

 these Fan-tailed Warblers to C. pictipetinis. Both birds have 

 the forehead greyish-broivn shading into dull chestnut-brown 

 between the eyes, instead of being uniform chestnut to the 

 base of the culmen, as is the case in all specimens of 

 C. cinerascens that I have examined. In both specimens the 

 tail is imperfect, being in full moult, and some of the outer 

 feathers only are present ; these are dark brownish-grey 

 with a very wide (about 0'4 inch) subterminal black band 

 and a wide white or whitish-buff tip. In C. cinerascens the 

 tail is much browner and the black subterminal spots do not 

 exceed 0*3 of an inch in width in the most strongly marked 

 specimens. As regards the markings of the tail, the birds 

 from Mfumbiro closely resemble several examples in the 

 British Museum from Nj'asaland which have been referred 

 to C. cinerascens ; but they differ from them in the brown 

 coloration of the forehead. 



There is a fine freshly moulted example of C. pictipennis 

 from Nairobi in Mr. F. J. Jackson's collection. 



cJ : wing 2*15 inches (= 54 mm.). 



9 : „ 2'1 inches (= 53 mm.). 



