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EXPLANATION OF PLATE X. 



Fig. L Cisticola higuhris marginata, S- Malakal, U.N., 31/v./09. 

 2. „ „ „ 2 . Fashoda, U.N., 9/i./07. 



These two figures show the great seasonal change in the colora- 

 tion and in the length of the tail in this species. 



Fig. 3. Cisticcla natalensis mahacii. S • Wandi, L.E. (Emin coll.), 



7/ix./85. 

 4. „ „ - „ S- Chak Ohak, B.G., 8/iii./07. 



The seasonal plumage-change is as marked in this subspecies as 

 in C. I. marginata. 



Fig. 5. Cisticola en/thropa erythrops. J. Ruwenzori, Uganda, 28/iv./06. 



6. „ ,, roseires. S. Roseires, Sen., 19/iv./ll. 



7. „ terrestris eximia. c?. Bahr el Zeraf, Q.N., 4/ii./14. 



These figures illustrate the characters of the new subspecies. 



Fig. 8. Cisticola rupceps scotoptera, $ . Mongalla, summer/09. 

 9. „ „ „ o . Sennar, vii./09. [Type of 



C.Jloweri Hartert.] 



10. „ „ „ $ . Fashoda, 9/i./07. 



11. „ „ „ S- Roseires, 21/iv./ll. 



These figures show the successive plumage-changes in this species. 

 Fig. 8 represents the full summer-dress ; fig. 9 is the same bird in 

 late summer-dress, the tail has moulted and the new winter tail 

 is not quite fully-grown, the head is also freshly moulted but not 

 the back. Fig. 10 is the full winter-dress with the striped back 

 and the long tail now fully grown ; and fig. 11 represents the bird 

 in worn winter-plumage just before assuming the summer-dress. 



XXXIII. — Obituary. 



William Vincent Legge. 



As was briefly announced in the last number of 'The Ibis/ 

 Col. W. V. Legije, Col.M.B.O.U., died on 25 March last at 

 Cullenswood House, St. Mary's, his home in Tasmania, in his 

 seventy-eighth year. 



Born also at Cullenswood in 1840, Legge was the son of 

 Robert Vincent Legge. He was brought to England when a 



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