collected in East Africa. 157 



123. CiSTICOLA IIUNTERI. 



Cisticola Imnteri, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 364 (Kilima- 

 njaro). 



No. 278. ? . Mt. Elgon, Feb. 17, 1890.— Shot iu the Crater 

 at 13,200 feet. Plentiful from 10,000 to 13,000 feet.— 

 Bill black ; irides bright brown ; feet pale flesh-colour. 

 Although the nearest ally of this species is C. subruficapilla, 

 as suggested by Captain Shelley, it is at the same time quite 

 different from that species, and is characterized by its ashy- 

 grey under surface. The stripling on the back is so little 

 marked that the species also approaches the group with 

 uniform backs — C. ruficapilla and C. cinerascens. 



124. Cisticola chubbi, sp. n. 



Nos. 332, 333. S ? • Kimangitchi, Mount Elgon, Feb. 27, 

 1890. — Bill black; feet flesh-colour; irides brown. 



Adult male. General colour above uniform earthy brown 

 with a slight olive tinge ; wing-coverts and quills brown, with 

 lighter brown margins, rather paler on the outer greater 

 coverts and the primaries j tail-feathers brown with light 

 rufescent tips, before which is a subterminal bar of black, 

 obsolete on the centre feathers, but distinct on all the others, 

 though confined to the inner web of the outer ones ; crown 

 of head light cinnamon-rufous ; lores dusky blackish ; eyelid 

 rufous, a shade of which colour pervades the upper edge of 

 the ear-coverts ; the latter light ashy grey washed with ful- 

 vous; cheeks and throat whitish, with a tinge of buff on the 

 cheeks ; sides of neck light ashy ; fore neck pale fulvescent ; 

 breast and abdomen whitish ; sides of upper breast ashy ; 

 sides of body and flanks light brown, the latter fulvescent ; 

 thighs tawny rufous ; under tail-coverts fulvescent ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries tawny buff ; quills beneath dusky, 

 along the inner edge light tawny. Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0*65, wing 2*5, tail 2'4, tarsus 1. 



This species is a pale edition of C. ruficapilla, from which 

 it differs in being pale ashy olive with a light cinnamon- 

 coloured head and its black loral spot. 



Dr. Reichenow agrees with me that this species is new to 



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