158 Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe on Birds 



science, and tells me that he has received two specimens of 

 it from Emin Pasha obtained at Bukoba on the Victoria 



Nyanza. 



125. CiSTICOLA PROCERA. 



Cisticola procera, Peters, J. f. O. 1868, p. 132. 

 No. 40. ¥ • Kikuyu, Sept. 4, 1889.— Bill black ; legs flesh- 



colour ; iris bright brown. 

 No. 41. c? . Kikuyu, Sept. 4, 1889. — Upper mandible black, 

 lower one horn-blue ; legs flesh-colour; iris brown. 

 These specimens are streaked on the back like C. hunteri, 

 but they are altogether paler than that bird, approaching 

 C. subrvficapiUa ; the streaks on the back, however, are not so 

 distinct as in the latter species, and indeed approach those 

 of the uniform rufous-headed section of Cisticola. 



I am indebted to my kind friend Dr. Reichenow for the 

 identification of these two specimens, which I submitted to 

 him in Berlin. He tells me that he has similar examples 

 from Pangani. 



12G. Camaroptera griseigula, sp. n. 

 C. similis C. brevicaudatte, scd gutture tantum cinereo ; 

 hypochoudriis brunnesceutibus ncc guise concoloribus. 

 Long. tot. 4, culm. 06, alai 2*1, caudie 1*65, tarsi 0*9. 

 No. 11. <S' l^iver Voi, Teita, Dec. 10, 1888. 



Dr. Reichenow tells me that he has a similar specimen to 

 the one above described from the Binue River, and he is 

 inclined to identify the species with C. tincta of Cassin. 

 Typical specimens of the latter from Gaboon appear to me 

 to be the true C. brevicaudata of Riippell, and I think that 

 C. griseigula is distinct from that species. 



127. Camaroptera brevicaudata. 



Camaroptera brevicaudata (Riipp.); Salvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Civ. Genov. (2) i. p. 144 (1884; Mahal-Uonz, Daimbi) ; 

 Fischer, J. f . O. 1855, pp. 140 (Maurui, Aruscha) ; Reichen. 

 J. f. O. 1887, p. 75 (Kagehi) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 299 

 (Manda Isl.). 



No. 19. S ' Elgeyo, July 7, 1890. — Irides brown ; legs pale 

 brownish flesh. \ery plentiful in the bush. 



