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clearer slaty grey, witli a white line above the eye, a whitish 

 freckling below the eye^ and having the ear-coverts distinctly 

 streaked with white ; breast and sides of body olive-yellow, 

 bright yellow in the centre of the breast and abdomen. Total 

 length 7-5 inches, culmen 07, wing 3-6, tail 3-3, tarsus 0-95. 



Hab. Kikuju. 



A representative of another Cameroons form, X. tephro- 

 Icema of Gray, but differing in its much smaller bill, purer 

 grey head and throat, and in the white streaks to the ear- 

 coverts. 



6. HiRUNDO ARCTICINCTA, Sp. U. ^- 



Glossy blue above, with a chestnut forehead and rufous 

 throat ; sides of face and a narrow line encircling the throat 

 blue like the back ; rest of under surface brown, with the 

 centre of the breast and abdomen white ; under tail-coverts 

 brown, tipped with white ; tail-feathers with large white 

 mark on all but the centre ones. Total length 5*8 inches, 

 culmen 0*4, wing 4*75, tail 2*7, tarsus 0"4. 



Hab. Mount Elgon, alt. 7000 ft. 



This Swallow is a representative form of H. angolensis, 

 from which it diflers in having the centre of the breast and 

 abdomen white, and in having the under tail-coverts brown, 

 broadly edged with pure white, instead of brown or brownish 

 white. 



7. Apalis pulchra, sp. n. ( 

 Grey above ; tail black, outer feathers all broadly tipped 



with white ; throat and breast white ; across the chest a broad 

 black collar; sides of body bright rufous. Total length 5*5 

 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 225, tail 2"5, tarsus 0'9. 



Hab. Mount Elgon, in thick forest. 



This species seems to have no near ally in the genus 

 Apalis, its rufous flanks, grey head, and black pectoral collar 

 distinguishing it from all the other members of the genus. 



8. Apalis jacksoni, sp. n. 



Male. Olive-yellow above : wings grey ; primaries black 

 edged with white, broader on the secondaries, so as to form a 

 streak down the wing ; upper tail-coverts and tail dark grey, 



