collected in East Africa. 303 



Herr Hartert, who happened to be in London when I was 

 at work on the present collection, identified the above specimen 

 with the Sylvia lugens of Riippell, which he had left in the 

 genus Sylvia in his recent ' Catalogue ' of the Senckenberg 

 Museum (No. 884), though he doubted whether this was the 

 correct position of the species. He quite agreed with me that 

 the bird is not a Sylvia, and at first sight it certainly looks 

 like a species of the genus Eujirinodes, but its large wings 

 locate it in Parisoma, though whether the latter genus is 

 rightly placed in the Muscicapidse or Sylviidse can be settled 

 only when we know more of the economy of the genus. 

 Mr. Jackson, in his diary, calls this bird a " Warbler." 

 I add a full description of the specimen in question : — 

 Adult male. General colour above dark chocolate-brown ; 

 the upper tail-coverts a little washed with ashy ; wing-coverts 

 brown like the back ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 blackish brown ; quills dusky brown, externally ashy brown, 

 the second and third primaries fringed with white; tail- 

 feathers blackish brown, all but the centre ones tipped with 

 white, which increases in extent towards the outermost 

 feather, which is entirely white along the outer web and at 

 the tip of the inner one, lea^dng the shaft blackish ; head 

 like the back ; lores dusky blackish ; sides of face and ear- 

 coverts light chocolate-brown, the cheeks and feathers below 

 the eye hoary white, varied with small blackish spots ; throat 

 hoary white with a few black spots as on the cheeks ; sides of 

 neck chocolate-brown ; fore neck, chest, and sides of body 

 pale ashy brown, the flanks with a fulvescent tinge ; breast 

 and abdomen white ; thighs ashy white ; under tail-coverts 

 pale fulvescent ; under wing-coverts light fulvous, those near 

 the edge of the wing white ; quills below dusky, ashy along 

 the inner edge. Total length 5*4 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 

 2-65, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-95. 



155. Trochocercus albonotatus. (Plate VII. fig. 1.) 

 Trochocercus albonotatus, Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 121. 

 No. 288. ? ad. Mount Elgon, Feb. 22, 1890.— First seen 

 to-day in thick forest. Iris brown ; bill black ; legs 

 horn-blue. 



