IC6 Richmond, Ne-v Birds from East Africa. \ \^^\\ 



edge of wing light olive yellow; under wing-coverts light grajish, tipped 

 with maize jellow ; inner webs of primaries on under surface grayish 

 white. In tiie dried skin the bill is dark brown above, whitish below ; feet 

 and tarsi light brown. Wing, 3.25 inches; tail, 2.70; tarsus, .77; culmen, 

 .63. A second male measures : wing, 3.28 ; tail, 2.75 ; tarsus, .76 ; culmen, 

 .61. This specimen is a trifle more olive on the back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts; the chest and breast are browner; buff of under parts deeper, 

 and under tail-coverts almost wholly of this color. It was collected 

 April 16, 18S8, while the type, described above, was taken in August. 



This new species finds its nearest ally in the recently described 

 Crithagra albifrons Sharpe, from Kikuyu and Mount Elgon, and 

 both species are more or less closely related to C. burtoni from 

 the Cameroons. From C. albifrons it differs in the absence of a 

 white band across the base of the feathers above the lores, but the 

 various more or less concealed white markings about the upper 

 throat, cheeks, and below the base of the ear-coverts is an indica- 

 tion of close relationship with that species. The chin is black in 

 C. kilimensis instead of dusky gray as in C. albifrons; the tips of the 

 middle and greater wing-coverts are greenish white instead of 

 white ; the tips of the greater series are not narrower than those 

 of the median coverts. In both size and color C. kilimensis 

 stands between C. bitrtoni ?ix\6. C. albifrons. 



Only two specimens of this species were obtained by Dr. Abbott, 

 the type at 6000 feet, and the other at 7000 feet. Other explorers 

 of Kilimanjaro have apparently not observed this species. 



2. Crithagra striolata affinis, new subspecies. 



Type. — No. 11S319, U. S. N. M.; male, adult, Mount Kilimanjaro, 6000 

 feet, June 12, 1888; Dr. W. L. Abbott, collector. 



Upper surface, from forehead to rump yellowish olive, mixed with 

 yellowish buff on nape, occiput, and to a less extent on back, all of the 

 feathers with dark brown centres, giving a streaked appearance ; centre of 

 forehead and crown with a decided yellowish wash ; sides of forehead 

 naples yellow, passing into buffy white on a broad superciliary streak 

 which extends to sides of neck ; lores, feathers around eye, ear-coverts, 

 cheeks, and a line from gape to ear-coverts brownish olive ; line above 

 cheeks, and a spot at base of upper mandible and under eye buffy white, 

 tinged with yellow ; throat buffy white, with a pronounced wash of wax 

 yellow ; sides of neck pale buff, streaked with dark brown ; rest of under 

 surface buff, much deeper on flanks ; breast and sides of body conspicu- 



