NO. II DESCRIPTIONS OF SIX NEW AFRICAN BIRDS 3 



mantle obsolete ; under parts paler, and less rufescent on the thighs. 



Description of the adult male and female in breeding plumage. — 

 Pileum and cervix snuff brown ; mantle pale sepia brown with slightly 

 darker centers to the feathers ; wings sepia, with drab edging to the 

 wing-coverts and inner secondaries, and with outer webs of quills 

 tinged with prout's brown ; middle pair of rectrices drab throughout ; 

 remaining rectrices drab, subterminally banded with black, and tipped 

 with whitish drab ; chin and throat whitish ; sides and flanks pale 

 grayish drab ; middle of chest, abdomen, and under tail-coverts white, 

 faintly tinged with clay color ; thighs clay color ; axillars, under 

 wing-coverts, and greater part of inner webs of quills cinamon-buff ; 

 iris light reddish brown; male with bill brownish black, plumbeous 

 on basal half of mandible, and with inside of mouth black ; female 

 with bill dark brown above, horn color on mandible and sides of 

 maxilla, and with inside of mouth yellow ; both sexes with feet brown- 

 ish flesh color, and with claws dark brown. 



Description of young in first plumage. — Crown and nape tawny- 

 olive ; mantle yellowish drab ; wings pale sepia, the feathers edged 

 with dresden brown ; rectrices dresden brown with indication of 

 numerous cross-bars, and with the pale feather-tips washed with 

 brown ; chin, throat, and sides of face chartreuse yellow ; middle of 

 abdomen whitish ; sides washed with drab-gray ; crissum, flanks, 

 thighs and lining of wings pale cinnamon-drab ; bill above brown, 

 flesh color on mandible and sides of maxilla at base ; inside of mouth 

 yellow in both sexes. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length of skin, 130; wing, 

 65.0; spurious primary, 26 x 5.5; tail, 57.5; oilmen (chord), 13.5; 

 tarsus, 25. 



Average measurements of nine adult males. — Wing, 66.2; tail, 

 56.5 ; culmen (chord) , 13.5 ; tarsus, 23.6. 



Average measurements of two adult females. — Wing, 53 ; tail, 

 45.8; culmen (chord), 12 ; tarsus, 21.3. 



Geographical range. — Valley of the Galana Sagan River and the 

 Stephanie and Rudolf lake-basins. 



Material. — Thirteen specimens from the Sagan River, Bodessa, 

 and Lake Stephanie, southern Abyssinia and northern British East 

 Africa. 



CISTICOLA SUBRTJFICAPILLA FRICKI, new subspecies 

 Frick's Grass-Warbler 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 217992, U. S. National 

 Museum ; collected on the east shore of White Lake Abaya, southern 

 Abyssinia, altitude 3,600 feet, March 20, IQ12, by Chjlds Frick. 



