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No. 29. ? . Kikuyu, Aug. 29, 1889. — Irides brown ; legs 



dark liorn-brown. 

 No. 43. S ad. Kikuyu, Sept. 4, 1889. — Legs dark brown ; 



irides brown. 



56. Serinus striolatus. 



Serinus striolatus (Riipp.) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. 

 Genov. (2) i. p. 171 (Shoa), vi. p. 271 (1888) ; Sharpe, Cat. 

 B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 363 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 367 

 (Kilima-njaro, 5000 ft.). 



Poliospiza striolata, Fischer, Zeitschr. i. p. '331 (Great 

 Aruscha) . 



Crithagra striolata, Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, p. 136. 

 No. 6. ? . Kikuyu, Aug. 14, 1889. — Irides brown ; legs 



dusky brown; bill dusky. 

 No. 39. ? . Kikuyu, Sept. 4, 1889. — Irides brown ; legs 



dusky brown. 

 No. 275. $ . Mount Elgon, camp at 11,000 feet, Feb. 16, 

 1890. — Irides brown ; legs dark olive-brown, almost 

 black; bill dusky horn-brown. First noticed at 11,000 

 feet. 

 No. 277. ? . Shot inside the large crater of Elgon, 13,200 

 feet, Feb. 17, 1890. — Irides brown, as in No. 275 ; 

 generally in pairs. 

 Taken as a whole the members of the present series, as well 

 as the Kilimanjaro birds in the British Museum, are 

 darker than Abyssinian examples. 



57. Poliospiza striatipectus, sp. n. 



Adult male. Above light brown, the back slightly streaked 

 with white, the rump also mottled with white ; wings darker 

 brown, the median and greater coverts tipped with whitish 

 and the quills margined with ashy white, a little broader on 

 the secondaries ; tail-feathers dark brown ; head brown, 

 streaked with white ; a narrow whitish eyebrow ; lores, 

 feathers round the eye, ear-coverts, and cheeks brown, with 

 a small streak of white along the centre of the cheeks ; 

 under surface of body dull white, with small brown streaks 

 on the throat, becoming broader and more distinct on the 



