eo-i Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant on 



but wlietlier they should be kept separate from typical 

 P. crlstatus from north Abyssinia I am unable to say ; for 

 the British Museum possesses only two specimens from that 

 part and their exact habitat is doubtful. 



Immature birds killed in June, July, and September have 

 the head pure white and a short crest on the fore part of the 

 crown ; the feathers of the upper parts brownish with pale 

 edges. 



Family Sylviid^. 



135. Mblocichla mentalis. 



Melocichla mentalis (Fraser) ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1907, 

 p. 594; id., Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 346 (1910). 



Tlie Large Grass-Warbler was met with on the Urguessa 

 River, also in Guma and Kullo. 



136. CiSTICOLA ROBUSTA. 



Cisticola robnsta (Riipp.) ; Ogilvie-Grant & Reid, Ibis, 

 1901, p. 652. 



Cisticola robnsta rohusta Neumann, J. f. O. 1906, p. 264. 



Cisticola robusta schraderi Neumann, t. c. p. 265. 



The Great Abyssinian Fan-tail Warbler was procured at 

 the Akaki River, near the Gibbe River, and in Jirama. 



Professor Neumann has separated birds from Senate, north 

 Abyssinia, as C. r. schraderi, but I have compared examples 

 collected by Blanford in that locality and find them to be 

 quite indistinguishable from the specimens in the present 

 collection and from those procured in Shoa^ &c. 



137. Cisticola rufa. 



Cisticola riifa (Praser); Sharpe, Cat. Birds B.M. vii. 

 p. 252 (1883). 



Cisticola hijjw.cantha Hartl. ; Neumann, J. f. O. 1906, 

 p. 276. 



The small Rufous Grass-Warbler was met with at 

 Gomma in May, and at Gofa in July. Two adult males 

 are assuming a dark striped plumage on the back, the third 

 specimen, an immature female, is more rufous above. This 

 species is evidently divisible into several races, but even 



