2 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 56 



under surfaces are browner, less grayish, in kilimcnsis than in 

 newnanni. 



CISTICOLA SUBRUFICAPILLA JEQUATORIALIS, new subspecies 

 Equatorial Grass- Warbler 



Type-specimen. — Adult male. Cat. No. 214431, U. S. N. M. Col- 

 lected at Lake Naivasha, altitude 6,350 feet, British East Africa, 

 July 22, 1909, by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number, 16355. 



Characters. — Much larger than Cisticola suhruHcapilla suhruHca- 

 pilla (A. Smith) ; coloration darker ; median stripes on feathers of 

 upper parts broader and blacker ; tail and outer aspect of wings less 

 rufescent. 



Description. — Pileum and cervix pale sepia, the feathers centrally 

 striped with blackish brown; lores white or (sometimes) rusty 

 white ; no light stripe above eye ; ear-coverts grayish brown ; back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts dark hair brown, the feathers of the 

 mantle with conspicuous brownish-black centers ; wings externally 

 dark brown, with outer webs edged with dull cinnamon ; tail above 

 dark reddish brown, obscurely fasciated, all but the central pair of 

 rectrices subterminally banded with black and tipped with pale 

 drab ; chin and upper throat white ; middle of chest and abdomen 

 white, washed with cream-bufif; sides brownish gray washed with 

 buflf ; thighs clay color ; axillars and bend of wing creamy white ; 

 under wing-coverts and inner border of quills pinkish buff ; crissum 

 cream-buff; under surface of tail pale drab (sometimes rusty), the 

 feathers subterminally crossed by a complete black band about five 

 millimeters in width. Iris yellowish brown ; bill blackish brown 

 above and flesh color below ; feet and claws light brown. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length (of skin), 140; 

 wing, 61 ; tail, 58 ; exposed culmen (chord), 13.5 ; tarsus, 24. 



Average measurements of eight adult males. — Wing, 66.1 ; tail, 

 58.3; culmen (chord), 13.4; tarsus, 24.5. 



Average measurements of four adult females. — Wing. 57 ; tail, 

 49.3; culmen (chord), 12.3; tarsus, 23.6. 



Measurements of one adult male topotype of Cisticola suhruHca- 

 pilla suhruHcapilla. — Wing, 52; tail, 50; culmen (chord), 11. 2; tar- 

 sus, 20. 



Material. — Twelve adults from Juja Farm (Athi River), Heat- 

 ley's Farm (Kamiti), Southern N'Guaso Nyiro River (Sotik Dis- 

 trict), Oljoro-o-Nyon River, Lake Naivasha, Gilgil, Laikipia, and 

 Guaso Nyiro River, all in British East Africa. 



