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faint cross-bars, subterminally banded on all of the feathers with 

 obsolete dusky bars which are black on the under surface, and 

 tipped with grayish drab ; lores and supraorbital stripe soiled white ; 

 sides of head pale grayish brown ; under parts pale grayish brown, 

 whitish on throat and middle of abdomen ; thighs broccoli brown ; 

 edge of wing white ; under wing-coverts buff-yellow ; inner webs 

 of quills buffy gray ; under side of tail grayish drab, subterminally 

 banded with black (these bands about six millimeters in width on 

 outer rectrices), and broadly tipped with yellowish drab. In the dry 

 skin the ridge of the maxilla is brown, the mandible and sides of 

 maxilla flesh color ; feet and claws pale yellowish brown. 



Measurements of type (and only specimen). — Length (of skin), 

 120; wing, 54; tail, 52; culmen (chord), 12.5; tarsus, 21 ; width of 

 middle tail-feather, 10. 



CISTICOLA HYPOXANTHA REICHENOWI, new subspecies 



Reichenow's Grass-Warbler 



Cisticola hypoxantha Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 30, 1906, 

 p. 80s. 



Type-Specimen. — Adult male. Cat. No. 215430, U. S. N. M. Col- 

 lected at Changamwe (sea-level), British East Africa, November 

 30, 1909, by Edgar A. Mearns. Original number, 17702. 



Characters. — Similar to Cisticola hypoxantha hypoxantha Hart- 

 laub from the upper Nile Valley, but paler, and less distinctly 

 streaked above.^ 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length (of skin), 100; 

 wing, 48; tail, 37; exposed culmen (chord), 10.3 ; tarsus, 20. 



Material. — Eight specimens of the present form from Mombasa 

 and Changamwe, on the coast of British East Africa; five specimens 

 of Cisticola hypoxantha hypoxantha Hartlaub from near the type 

 locality (Lake Albert). 



Remarks. — Dr. Reichenow, to whom the specimens collected by 

 William Doherty at Mombasa were submitted, considered this form 

 distinct ; but in the absence of specimens from the type locality of 

 Cisticola hypoxantha, Mr. Oberholser was unwilling to name the 

 Mombasa bird, which I now take pleasure in naming for Dr. Anton 

 Reichenow. 



' For a detailed description of this form see Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., Vol. 30, June 4, 1906, p. 806. 



