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ously streaked with dark brown; feathers of under tail-coverts with dark 
brown centres; thighs pale brown, with a yellowish tinge, some of the 
feathers indistinctly streaked ; wings and tail blackish brown, the feathers 
(except outermost tail feather and first primary) edged with olive yellow 
on the outer webs ; tertiaries with paler, whitish edges; lesser wing-coverts 
greenish olive; middle coverts blackish brown with whitish tips; greater 
series blackish brown, edged externally with olive yellow with whitish 
tips; primary coverts and alula blackish brown, narrowly edged externally 
with olive yellow; axillaries brownish buff, mixed with yellow; edge of 
wing yellow; under wing-coverts pale wood brown. Wing, 2.58 inches; 
tail, 2.44; tarsus, .83; culmen, .51. 
Three other specimens in the collection, all females, obtained 
at altitudes of 5000 and 7000 feet, in April and May, 1888, and 
October, 1889, resemble in color and size the adult male described 
above, but they are slightly duller in appearance. 
This form has been observed in East Africa upon several 
occasions and Dr. Sharpe has twice directed attention to differ- 
ences between specimens from this region and Abyssinia (the type 
locality of C. striolata). He observes,! “the specimen from 
Kilimanjaro has a yeliowish chin and more olive-yellow on the 
wing-coverts, but as some of the Abyssinian specimens also show 
a little of the latter colour, there is probably no real difference 
between birds from the two localities’; and again in his report on 
Mr. Jackson’s collections? he writes of specimens from Mount 
Elgon and Kikuyu, “taken as a whole the members of the present 
series, as well as the Kilimanjaro birds in the British Museum, 
are darker than Abyssinian examples.” In addition to the 
differences mentioned by Dr. Sharpe the Kilimanjaro birds are 
smaller, and I have separated them accordingly. 
3. Estrilda cyanocephala, new species. 
Type. — No. 118252, U.S. N. M.; male, adult, Useri river, near Mount 
Kilimanjaro, January 12, 1889; Dr. W. L. Abbott, collector. 
Whole head, breast, sides of body, rump, upper tail-coverts and tail nile 
blue, somewhat darker on the inner webs of the tail feathers; nape, back, 
scapulars, wing-coverts, and sides of neck wood brown; wings ashy brown, 
edged with wood brown; lower breast, abdomen, under tail-coverts, 
"Catalogue of Birds Brit. Mus., XII, 1888, 364. 
> Ibis, 1891, 258. 
