iEGITHALUS FRINGILLINUS. 255 



Adult. Upper parts pale ashy brown with a faint olive tinge ; wings and 

 tail darker brown with paler edges to the feathers ; cheek and under parts 

 white with a very faint shade of buff on the abdomen ; under wing-coverts 

 aud inner edges of quills buffy white. Bill and legs slaty grey ; iris brown. 

 Total length 3 - l inches, culmen 0-35, wing 1-9, tail l - 2, tarsus - 5. Lado, 

 $, 9. 3. 81 (Emin). 



The Mouse-coloured Penduline Tit ranges through northern 

 Equatorial Africa from the Upper White Nile into Somaliland. 



This is the northern representative of A. enroll, from which 

 it differs chiefly in its paler colouring. It was discovered by 

 Emin at Lado on the Upper White Nile where it is apparently 

 abundant, for there are four of Emin's specimens from that 

 locality in the British Museum. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott has obtained the species at Taveta, to 

 the east of the Kilimanjaro Mountain, in August, 1888, aud 

 the occurrence of this bird in Somaliland was first made 

 known by Dr. A. Donaldson Smith procuring a specimen at 

 Okoto in September, 1894. Mr. Elliot shot one at Hand and 

 writes : " Seldom seen, but probably it easily escapes recogni- 

 tion on account of its very small size," and Mr. Hawker met 

 with the species at Ujawaji in January, but did not notice it 

 elsewhere. Lord Lovat, during his journey from Somaliland 

 to the Blue Nile, shot a specimen at Hawash in about 9° N. lat. 



iEgithalus fringillinus. 



Parus fringillinus, Fiseh. and Eeichen. J. f. O. 1884, p. 56 Maeru Mt. ; 

 Fisch. Zeitschr. 1884, p. 340, pi. 19, fig. 1 ; id. J. f. 0. 1885, p. 139 ; 

 Eeichen. Vog. Deutsch. O. Air. p. 213 (1893) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. 

 No. 123 (1896). 



Adult. Forehead, sides of head, neck, throat, and chest isabelline 

 rufous, remainder of the under parts greyish brown washed with rufous ; 

 crown grey mottled with black ; upper parts of the body grey shaded with 



