()i;r.RHOLSER : Nkw Birds from British East Africa. 4^>7 



The two specimens of this species, both adult males, in the collec- 

 tion of the Carnegie Museum have been identified as Cisticola chiniana 

 by Dr. Reichenow, but they clearly are not Cisticola chiniana (Smith), ^ 

 with specimens and the original description of which they have care- 

 fully been compared. From Cisticola sitbruficapilla, which, by the 

 way, seems to be a perfectly distinct species, occurring in many locali- 

 ties along with C. chiniana^ our bird differs much as from C. c/ii/iiaiia, 

 and additionally in its decidedly larger size. It is, moreover, in gen- 

 eral appearance much more nearly like Cisticola prinioides, from which, 

 however, it may easily be distinguished by its paler lower siu'face, 

 and particularly by its pale lores and eye-ring. It is thus in fact 

 intermediate between the group typified by Cisticola chiniana and that 

 composed of Cisticola prinioides, C. neinnanni, and C. hiinteri. 



Measurements of Cisticola heterophrys are given herewith : 



^ Drymoica c/iiiiiiuia Smith, 111. Zool. S. .\fr. , 1843, pi. LXXIX. (North o( 

 Kurrichaine, Bechuana Land, South Africa.) 

 6 Type. 



