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In Mossaraedes Mr. A. W. Eriksson procured a specimen 

 in the Sheila range of mountains in 1882, which was lent to 

 me to name, and is now in the South African Museum. This 

 greatly extends the known range of the species, as it had not 

 hitherto been recorded from further south than the Kili- 

 manjaro mountain, where Mr. Hunter procured the type of 

 Alcippe hilimensis in August, 1888, at an elevation of 6,000 

 feet. In this latter district the species has also been met with 

 by Mr. Neumann in the forests of Mau. Lord Lovat, while 

 on his way from Berbera to the Blue Nile, shot a specimen 

 at Burka in about 8° N. lat., 41° 30' E. long., and writes : 

 " This bird is very common all through the wooded valleys 

 of Southern Abyssinia." In Shoa Antinori and Ragazzi record 

 it from the forests of Sciotalit and Fekerie-ghem, where its 

 presence is most readily known by its loud song, which some- 

 what resembles that of the Nightingale. The type was 

 discovered by Riippell in Abyssinia. Here, according to von 

 Heuglin, the species is very rare, for he met with it once only 

 in the Begermeder district between 8,000 and 9,000 feet. 



Alcippe galinieri. 



Parisoma galinieri, Guer. Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 162 ; id. in. Ferr. and Gal. 



Vog. Abyss. Ois. iii. p. 223, pi. 13 (1847) Abyssinia; Grant, Ibis, 



1900, p. 153 Abyssinia. 

 ^Egithalopsis galinieri, Heine, J. f. O. 1859, p. 431 ; Heugl. Orn. N. O. 



Afr. p. 395 (1870). 

 Lioptilus galinieri, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 232 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Genov. 1884, p. 126 ; 1888, p. 236 ; Gigl. t. c. p. 44 Shoa ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. I. No. 1296 (1896). 

 Parisoma frontalis (uec Heugl.) Eiipp. Syst. Uebers. pp. 43, 59, pi. 22 



(1845) Slwa. 

 Crateropus melodus, Heugl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 299. 



Adult. Forehead white shading into whitish brown on the crown and 

 then into earthy brown on the back of the head, neck and back ; wings and 



