6 C/ol. R. Meinertzhagen on Birds from [Ibis, 



Locustella fluviatilis (Wolf). 



In my African collection are two fenmles obtained 

 at Taveta near Kilimanjaro in December. Alexander ob- 

 tained a specimen at Zumbo on the Zambesi in winter. 

 Their skulking habits probably account for the paucity of 

 African records. 



Hippolais languida (Hemp. & Ehr.), 



A scarce winter visitor to tropical eastern Africa. I have 

 specimens from Lake Rudolf in March and from the Taita 

 Hills in Kenya Colony in December. Lonnberg obtained 

 one on the northern Guaso Nyero in Kenya Colony, and 

 Reichenow records (Vog. Afr.) winter birds from the 

 Latema and Pare Hills between Kilimanjaro Mountain and 

 the coast. They arrive early in Africa^ as is evidenced by 

 birds in Archer's Somaliland collection, which were obtiiined 

 on 20. vii. and 29. viii. 



HIPPOLAIS PALLIDA. 



Hippolais pallida elaeica (Lindermayer). 



A common summer visitor and breeding bird throughout 

 Syria and Palestine from Aleppo and Damascus to the 

 Jordan Valley. I did not observe them in the Judaean 

 highlands. 



All winter visitors of this species to Kenya Colony appear 

 to belong to this race. From December to late March they 

 are common from Uganda to the coast, my latest spring 

 record being from Kisumu on the Victoria Nyanza on 

 1. iv. 



Hippolais pallida pallida (Hemp. & Ehr.). 



So far only known to breed in Egypt, where it is an 

 abundant summer visitor, arriving from the south in the 

 middle of March and leaving in September and early 

 October. It appears to be absent as a breeding species from 

 Suez. Birds probably winter not farther south than the 

 Sudan or southern Abyssinia. 



