NO. 1411. BIRDS FROM MO VNT KTLIM. 1 N.T. I RO—OBERIIOLSFAl. 879 



Measurements of three adult males are as below: 



Locality. 



Taveta Mar. 27, 188S 



Lake Jipe ! May 20, iws 



Useri River I Dec. lo, ixss 



Average 



Doctor Abbott writes that at the time of his visit (May, 1888) the 

 species was breeding- in great numbers among the reeds bordering 

 Lake Jipe. 



SITAGRA OCULARIA CROCATA (Hartlaub). 



ILlpluuitovnh cnivdfa 1Iakt1;.\i:b, Abliandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, VII, 1881, p. 100 

 (Magungo, British East Africa). 



Four specimens: one from Taveta; one from Maranu, Mount Kili- 

 manjaro, 5,000 feet; two without data. An immature bird has the bill 

 pale brownish, "Irides of male straw yellow."' This form differs 

 from true ocular ia of South Africa as indicated by Doctor Sharpe.^' 



HETERHYPHANTES REICHENOWI ( Fischer ). 



Sycobrotu.^ reichenorvi Fischer, .Toiwn. f. ()rnith., 1884, p. 180 (Lalie Naivasha, 

 British East Africa). 



Three specimens, from Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5,000 feet altitude, 

 June 13 and December d. " Irides light straw yellow; l)ill black; 

 feet pinkish flesh color (adult male and female)." An immature male 

 resembles the adult female, but has the upper parts brownish black 

 and much mixed with yellowish olive, particularlj^ on the nape; the 

 bill dull brown, paler below. 



GRANATINA lANTHINOGASTRA (Reichenow). 



Urnegirdliris ianihmogaster Rrichei<so\\\ ( )niith. C'entrall)latt, 1879, p. 114 (Massa, 

 British East Africa). 



Two specimens, an adult and an immature male, of this rare weaver- 

 bird were taken by Doctor Abbott on the plains east of Mount Kili- 

 manjaro. " Bill, irides, and the bare skin encircling the eyes, red (in 

 adult male)." The immature male differs considerably from the adult, 

 and may be descri)»ed as follows: 



Head and cervix cinnamon rufous; back and rump dull cinnamon; 

 wings fuscous, margined with dull reddish cinnjunon; upper tail- 

 coverts bright l)lue; tail brownish black, th(^ outer f(\ithers narrowl}^ 

 edged wdth dark cinnamon brown; orbital region bright bhie; sides of 

 neck like the crown; aiiriculars tiie same, l)ut darker; lower surface 

 cinnamon rufous, much })aler posteriorly. 



«Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIII, 1890, p. 41'8. 



