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plumage. It seems to ])e a very rare species and the British 

 Museum previously possessed two examples only, the type 

 of C. dodsoni Sharpe, from Haud^ Somaliland, and a male 

 from the neighbourhood of Kilimanjaro procured by Mr. K. 

 Kemp and forming part of the Rudd collection. This 

 latter specimen is, of course, a typical example of C. nana, 

 \vhich was first obtained by Fischer at Ngaruka, to the vest 

 of Kilimanjaro, 



14-i. CiSTICOLA CINEREOLA. 



Cisticula cinereola Salvad. ; Ogilvie-Grant & Reid, Ibis, 

 1901, p. 651 ; Reich, iii. p. 548 (1905). 



A female example of the Grey Grass-Warbler was shot in 

 August at Menno, lo the west of Lake Stefanie. 



145. Pkinia erlangeri. 



Prinia somalica erlangerl Reich, iii. p, 59.2 (1905) ; Fr- 

 langer, J. f. O. 1905, p. 724. 



Prinia intermedia Jackson, Bull, B. O. C. xxvii. p. 7 (1910), 

 There appears to l)e no doubt that P. intermedia Jackson 

 is a synonym of P. erlangeri, which is now represented for 

 the first time in the British Museum collection. Two males 

 and a female were met with at the north end of Lake 

 Stefanie in August ; these agree perfectly with the type- 

 specimen of P. intermedia which was obtained at the Guaso 

 Nyiro in August, P. somalica is represented in the British 

 Museum by four males from Berbera, killed in January and 

 February; these are all much paler birds, but are in some- 

 what worn plumage, especially those killed in February, in 

 which the wing- and tail-feathers are moulting. The new 

 cpiills in these birds, though darker than those of the old 

 ])lumage, are paler than in examples of P. erlanyeri, which 

 appears to be a well-marked darker form. 



146, Pkinia mystacea, 



Prinia mystacea Riipp, ; Ogilvie-Grant, Trans, Zool. Soc. 

 xix, p, 3R6 (1910). 



Two adult female examples of the Tawny-flankcil Wren- 

 AYarbler were met with, one near Lake Zwai in January and 



^ other in Jimma in Mav. 



