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brownish black above, grayish flesh color below ; feet and claws pale 

 brown. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length of skin. 145; wing, 

 74; spurious primary, 28 x 6 ; tail, 57; oilmen (chord), 14.5; tar- 

 sus, 28. 



CISTICOLA ROBUSTA TANA, new subspecies 

 Tana Grass-Warbler 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 245695, U. S. National 

 Museum; collected at Camp No. 5 (Childs Frick Expedition), Tana 

 River, British East Africa, August 19, 1912, by Edgar A. Mearns. 

 (Original number, 23756.) 



Characters. — A pallid, grayish race, having the black markings 

 more restricted than in any other known form of Cistieola robusta. 

 It most closely resembles C. r. abaya (described above). 



Description of type and only specimen (adult male). — Pileum clay 

 color, with narrow brown shaft-stripes ; nape clay color, with dark 

 centers to the feathers ; ear-coverts huffy white, with pale drab 

 feather-tips, which are minutely freckled with brown ; lores dirty 

 white ; mantle pale drab-gray with dark brown shaft-streaks ; rump 

 drab-gray, unspotted ; a few upper tail-coverts spotted with blackish ; 

 wing with secondaries dark brown, bordered with pale ochraceous- 

 buff; primaries with basal three-fifths edged with saccardo's umber 

 on outer webs ; outer wing-coverts light grayish olive, with darker 

 centers ; rectrices dark grayish brown, subterminally banded with 

 black, and with buffy white tips, the middle pair darkest, and all 

 obscurely f asciated ; under parts olive-buff, becoming whitish on the 

 chin, throat, and sides of face ; outer aspect of thighs pale vina- 

 ceous ; axillars, under wing-coverts, and inner border of quill-feathers 

 vinaceous-buff. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length of skin, 135 ; wing, 

 70; spurious primary, 27 x 5 ; tail, 53; oilmen (chord), 13; tarsus, 



27-5- 



CISTICOLA SUBRUFICAPILLA BODESSA, new subspecies 



Bodessa Grass-Warbler 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 245778, U. S. National 

 Museum ; collected at Bodessa, near the Sagan River, southern Abys- 

 sinia, May 2y, 1912, by Edgar A. Mearns. (Original number, 21986.) 



Characters. — Similar in size to Cistieola subruficapilla ccquatorialis 

 Mearns, color paler and browner, with the dark shaft-stripes of the 



