collected in East Africa. 155 



and fading off on the fore neck into ashy buff; the breast and 

 under tail-coverts buffy white ; the sides of body, flanks, and 

 thighs light tawny buff ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 pale tawny buff; quills below dusky, pale fulvous along the 

 inner edge. Total length 5*9 inches, culmen 07, wing 2*65, 

 tail 2*5, tarsus 1. 



118. Prinia mystacea. 



Drymceca tenella, Cab. ; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 77 (Vic- 

 toria Nyanza). 



Prinia mystacea, Riipp. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. 

 p. 191. 



No. 226. c? . Save, Mt. Elgon, Feb. 5, 1890, 6000 feet.— 

 Irides bright pale brown ; legs brownish flesh-colour ; 

 upper mandible dusky greyish olive, the lower one pale 

 flesh-colour. Plentiful in the table-topped acacias. 



119. EUPRINODES CINEREUS. 



Euprinodes cinereus, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 120. 

 No. 312. ? . Mount Elgon, Feb. 25, 1890. 

 Nos. 314, 315. $ . Mount Elgon, Feb. 25, 1890.— Feet dark 



fleshy brown ; bill black ; irides bright brown ; eyelids 



brown. In thick forest. 



120. Apalis pulchra. (Plate IV. fig. 1.) 

 Apalis pulchra, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 119. 



Nos. 293, 294. S ? • Mount Elgon, Feb. 23, 1890.— Irides 

 bright yellowish brown or yellow-ochre; legs horn- 

 brown ; bill black. Plentiful in thick forest in dense 

 undergrowth. 

 No. 295. cS . Mount Elgon, Feb. 25, 1890.— Legs horn-blue. 

 I append a full description of the species : — 

 Adult male. General colour above dark ashy grey; the 

 wing-coverts like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills blackish margined with ashy grey, more broadly 

 on the inner secondaries ; tail-feathers black, the centre ones 

 slightly tipped with white ; all the others with a broad white 

 end, increasing in size towards the outermost, which are 

 almost entirely white ; crown of head like the back ; lores 

 and region of eye blackish ; sides of face and ear-coverts 



