VoI.^XIVJ Richmond, Nexv Birds from East Africa. I 5 7 



ouslj stre.iked with dark brown ; feathers of under tail-coverts with dark 

 brown centres; tlaighs pale brown, with a yellowish tinge, some of the 

 feathers indistinctly streaked ; wings and tail blackish brown, the feathers 

 (except outermost tail feather and first primary) edged with olive yellow 

 on the outer webs ; tertiaries with paler, whitish edges; lesser wing-coverts 

 greenish olive; middle coverts blackish brown with whitish tips; greater 

 series blackish brown, edged externally with olive yellow with whitish 

 tips; primary coverts and alula blackish brown, narrowly edged externally 

 with olive yellow; axillaries brownish buff, mixed with yellow; edge of 

 wing yellow; under wing-coverts pale wood brown. Wing, 2.58 inches; 

 tail, 2.44; tarsus, .83; culmen, .51. 



Three other specimens in the collection, all females, obtained 

 at altitudes of 5000 and 7000 feet, in April and May, 1888, and 

 October, 1889, resemble in color and size the adult male described 

 above, but they are slightly duller in appearance. 



This form has been observed in East Africa upon several 

 occasions and Dr. Sharpe has twice directed attention to differ- 

 ences between specimens from this region and Abyssinia (the type 

 locality of C. striolata^. He observes, ^ "the specimen from 

 Kilimanjaro has a yellowish chin and more olive-yellow on the 

 wing-coverts, but as some of the Abyssinian specimens also show 

 a little of the latter colour, there is probably no real difference 

 between birds from the two localities"; and again in his report on 

 Mr. Jackson's collections" he writes of specimens from Mount 

 Elgon and Kikuyu, " taken as a whole the members of the present 

 series, as well as the Kilimanjaro birds in the British Museum, 

 are darker than y\byssinian examples." In addition to the 

 differences mentioned by Dr. Sharpe the Kilimanjaro birds are 

 smaller, and I have separated them accordingly. 



3. Estrilda cyanocephala, new species. 



Tjpe. — No. 118252, U. S. N. M. ; male, adult, Useri river, near Mount 

 Kilimanjaro, January 12, 1889; Dr. W. L. Abbott, collector. 



Whole head, breast, sides of body, rump, upper tail-coverts and tail nile 

 blue, somewhat darker on the inner webs of the tail feathers; nape, back, 

 scapulars, wing-coverts, and sides of neck wood brown ; wings ashy brown, 

 edged with wood brown; lower breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, 



' Catalogue of Birds Brit. Mus., XII, 1888, 364. 

 - Ibis, 1S91, 258. 



