W. E. OGILVIE-GEANT— AVES. 



to be met with in the district. The two species were never found in the same locality, 

 for C. lateralis was not seen above 2500 ft., while C. chubbi was never met with below 

 5000 ft.— B. B. W.] 



Cisticola emini Reichenow. 



Cisticola emini Reich. J. i. O. 1892, p. 56 [Bussisi, S. of Victoria Nyanza] ; Grant, Ibis, 1908. 

 p. 297 [N.W. of Lake Tanganyika]. 



Cisticola rufopileata emini Reich. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 562 (1905). 



Cisticola woosnami Grant, Bull. B. O. C. xxi. p. 72 (1908). ± 



a-i. 6 2 ■ Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft, 24th-30th April. [Nos. 251, 252. 



BED- 1428 1440, 1441, 1445, 1459, 1463. B. C. ; 3280. B. B. W.] 

 ' k-y. 6 2 et 6 ? imm. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 5th-30th May. [Nos. 286. 



2S6 A , 319, 328, 335, 395. B. E. B.; 1575. B. C; 3339, 3340*, 3351, 3353, 33G9, 



3371 * 3384, 3387. B. B. W.] 



z. d imm. Mokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 2nd June. [No. 3444. B. B. W.] 



I have re-examined the large series of Grass-Warblers, which I at first considered 

 to represent a distinct species and separated under the name of C. woosnami, and am 

 now satisfied that they should have been referred to C. emini Reich. 



The species is nearly allied to C. pileata Reich., and, like that species, has the lores 

 white but the bill is shorter, the culmen more curved, the under mandible always pale 

 horn-colour the top of the head browner, not chestnut, and the upperparts much 

 lighter and' of an olive-brown. Ins hazel; upper mandible black, lower mandible 

 wMtish horn-colour ; feet flesh-colour. _ 



The male besides being larger than the female, is easily distinguished by having the 

 sides and flanks olive-grey: in the female these parts are bright buff. This sexual 

 difference in plumage explains the differences noted in the bird collected by 

 Mr Carruthers at Baraka (cf. < Ibis,' 1908, p. 297). 



Yc-un» birds have the upperparts, including the crown, uniformly reddish-brown ; 

 the chin° throat, and middle of the breast being washed with yellow, as is usual among 



young birds of this genus. 



, Total length ca. 5-0 inches ; culmen 0'5S ; wing 2'6 ; tail 2-1 ; tarsus 9. 



i „ 4-7 „ ; „ 0-57; „ 2T5 ; „ 1-8 ; „ 0-85. 



rAlthough Emin's Grass- Warbler so closely resembles C. chubbi in appearance, both 

 its habits and notes are totally different and it frequents a different kind of country. 

 C chubbi which is found on Ruwenzori from 5000 to 8000 ft, is essentially a bird 

 of the elephant-grass country, and is never seen among the short grass and acacia- 

 trees at the south end of the range. C, emini is met with only in the acacia-country 



* Types of Cisticola woosnami Grant. 



