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38. XENOCICHLA PLACIDA, N. Sp. 
General colour above olive-brown, with a slight rufous shade 
on the crown and lower back; upper tail-coverts and tail rufous ; 
wings dark brown, washed with rufous on the edges of all the feathers, 
the edges of the primaries being slightly paler and yellower ; feathers 
in front of the eyes, lores and cheeks ashy ; wing-coverts brown, all 
with pale buff ill-defined shaft-stripes ; feathers surrounding the eye 
buff; chin, throat, and under surface of the body buff, washed with 
pale ashy olive across the crop and down the sides of the body; 
axillaries and under wing-coverts yellowish white ; quills dark brown, 
with pale rufous-buff inner edges to the feathers, broadest towards 
their base. Upper mandible dark brown, with a pale cutting-edge ; 
lower mandible paler and yellowish ; legs slaty brown, claws pale 
brown. ‘Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0°6, wing 3, tail 3°2, 
tarsus 0°9. 
Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., August. 
This species is nearly allied to X. albigularis, Sharpe, from Fantee, 
but is larger, has the bill shorter and the culmen more curved ; 
the crown and back uniform, of a rather more rufous shade and not 
washed with grey on the crown; the wings more rufous, not edged 
with olive; tail similar. The underparts differ in the throat not 
being so white and the breast not being so strongly washed with 
bright yellow ; the under surface of the wings much the same in both. 
39. PycNONOTUS LAYARDI. 
Pycnonotus layardi, Gurney, Shelley, P. Z.S. 1881, p. 576; Schal. 
J. f. O. 1883, p. 360; Fisch. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 341; id. 
J. f. O. 1885, p. 137; Shelley, P. Z.S. 1885, p. 256; Rehw. J. f. O. 
1887, p. 75. 
do. Teita, June. 
40. TurpUS TEPHRONOTUS. 
Turdus tephronotus, Cab., Shelley, P. Z.8. 1881, p. 574; Fisch. 
J. f. O. 1885, p. 141; Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 299. 
Q. Useri river, July 1. 
A 1. CossyPHA CAFFRA. 
Cossypha caffra (Linn.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. viii. p. 39 
(1883). 
3. Kilimanjaro, August 5. 
42. BRADYORNIS ATER. 
Bradyornis ater, Sundey., Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 314 
(1877). 
¢. Useri river, July. 
98. PRATINCOLA AXILLARIS. 
Pratincola axillaris, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 556; 1885, p. 226, 
3 2. Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft., August. 
