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with the rather large material now available I have found it 

 difficult to arrive at any satisfactory conclusion. The birds 

 in the present collection appear to be indistinguishable from 

 typical C rufa from West Africa, and I have^ therefore^ used 

 that name. 



Hartlaub's C hypoxantha seems to have been founded on 

 the more rufous Uganda and British East African form^ but 

 the type-specimen (an immature bird, which came from 

 Magungu, Lake Albert) seems to have disappeared {fide 

 Neumann). In this form the black striped plumage on the 

 upperparts is merely indicated in a few specimens. 



Specimens from the Congo and Landaua also represent 

 a more rufous race, but are heavily striped in non-breeding 

 plumage. 



138. CiSTICOLA ERYTHROPS. 



Cisticola erythrops {Yioxil.)-, Ogilvie-Grant, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. xix. p. 348 (1910). 



The Buff-breasted Grass- Warbler was obtained at Lake 

 Zwai on the 23rd of Decemt)er ; also at Konta and Kullo 

 on the 15th and 16th of June. The birds killed in June 

 are in breeding-plumage and have the crown and nape much 

 browner than in the December bird, in which these parts 

 are chestnut shading into rusty-red on the sides of the neck. 



139. Cisticola semitorques. 



Cisticola semitorques Heiigl, ; Reich, iii. p. 563 (1905). 



Examples of this Plain-backed Grass-Warbler were 

 obtained at Kullo in June, and at Gofa in July. The 

 species is rare in Abyssinia and is seldom sent home in 

 collections. 



140. Cisticola chiniana cantans, 



Cisticola chiniana (Smith); Reich, iii. p. 546 (1905) 

 [part-]. 



Cisticola cantons (Heugl.) ; Reich, iii. p. 547 (1905). 



Cisticola chiniana simplex (Heugl.) ; Reich, iii. p. 547 j 

 Neumann, J. f. O. 1906, p. 267. 



The Abyssinian and East African form of the Larger 

 Grey-backed Grass-Warblei- was cuuauon in the vicinity of 



