NO. nil. BIRDS FROM MOUNT KILIMANJARO— OBERHOLSER. 907 



Transvaal and Mashona Land; and furthermore Dr. R. B. Sharpe, to 

 whom it was submitted for examination, professed his inability to 

 separate it from South African examples. The species has previously 

 not been recorded from north of Mashona Land, so its range is hereby 

 o-reatly extended. 



CAMAROPTERA BREVICAUDATA (Cretzschmar). 



Sijlvki brevicaudata Cretz^hmar, in Riippell's Atlas Reis. XorcU. Afr., Vog., 

 1826, p. 53, pi. xxxvb (Kordofan, northern Africa). 



Six specimens, from Taveta and Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5,000 feet. 

 "Iris light brown." Immature birds, taken in May, are more brown- 

 ish above than the adults, and are strongh' tinged with ochraceous 

 across the breast. One still 3^ounger is olive brown above except on 

 rump and scapulars — the latter being olive green, the former slate 

 gray — and has some light yellow on abdomen, l)reast, chin, throat, 

 and sides of head. In all these examples, adult as well as young, but 

 more conspicuous in the latter, there are on the l)reast, and some- 

 times on upper abdomen and sides as well, obsolete pale grayish 

 vermiculations. 



PRINIA MISTACEA Ruppell. 



Prinia mistacea Rtii'PEi.L, Neue Wirb. Faun. Abyss., \'ogel, 1.S35, p. 110 (Gondar, 

 Al)yssinia). 



Two males, from Taveta, taken March 23, 18H8. One is in the 

 lighter, more rufescent plumage of the immature. 



Family MrSCICAPID.1^:. 



MELiENORNIS ATER TROPICALIS (Cabanis). 



Melanopepla tropical Is Gabat^is, Journ. f. Ornith., 1884, p. 241 (Ukamba, British 

 East x\frica). 



One example, from Taveta, August 18, 1888. This is a female in 

 the black plumage, but small tips of ochraceous on the greater wing- 

 coverts and the innermost secondaries, together with a few ochraceous- 

 barred feathers on the breast and abdomen, indicate its immaturit3^ 



MUSCICAPA STRIATA NEUMANNI (Poche). 



Muscicapa grisola sibirica Neumann (not Gmelin), Journ. f. Ornith., 1900, p. 259 



(Loita Mountain, northwestern Masai Land, German East Africa, winter). 



Muscicapa f/risola neinnannl Poche, Ornith. Monatsber. , 1904, p. 20 (nom. emend. ). 



Two specimens: one from ''"East Africa," the other from the Useri 

 River near Mount Kilimanjaro, August 30, 1888. Though rather 

 darker than one from the Thian Shan Mountains, central Asia, these 

 two specimens belong without doulit to the apparently recognizable 

 form sihirica recentl}' described by Mr. Neumann. Its principal 



