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

 sides of head brownish black ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 yellowish olive-green, the mantle, only, with broad black shaft- 

 streaks ; wings as in the male ; entire under parts empire yellow. 



Description of young in first plumage (females, still attended by 

 parents). — Top of head, back, rump, and upper tail-coverts warbler 

 green, washed with brownish-grayish on the mantle, which is also 

 shaft-streaked with brown ; wings brown, with buffy-white outer 

 edges to the secondaries, and pyrite yellow edges to the coverts and 

 outer edge of primaries ; auricular patch duskier than crown ; under 

 parts pinard yellow anteriorly, becoming pale drab-gray on lower 

 abdomen and crissum. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length of skin, 150; wing, 

 80 ; tail, 62 ; culmen (chord), 18.2 ; tarsus, 24. 



Average measurements of four adult males. — Wing, 80.25 ; tail, 

 60.5 ; culmen (chord), 18.5 ; tarsus, 23.5. 



Average measurements of three adult female topotypes. — Wing, 

 78 ; tail, 59; culmen (chord ), 17.33 \ tarsus, 22.2. 



Material. — Four adult males and three adult females, all in breed- 

 ing plumage ; also two young in first plumae;e ; all from Sidamo. 



Geographical range. — Sidamo and Djamdjam districts of Abys- 

 sinia. 



Remarks. — The fortunate circumstance of my being in Sidamo 

 when this species was in breeding plumage, and finding both sexes 

 and the young associated, enables me to unite them as opposite sexes 

 of one species. Without having examined the specimens, I suppose 

 the few examples of Othyphantcs reichenoivi recorded from southern 

 Abyssinia to be males of 0. fricki, and the two females from Sidamo 

 and Djamdjam recorded as O. stuhlmanni by Neumann to be females 

 of 0. fricki. 



I find the species of Othyphantes from East Africa to be very 

 similar in size, after averaging the measurements of our series of 

 stuhlmanni, reichenoivi, emini, and baglafecht. It is evident that, up 

 to the present time, no ornithologist has studied these species with 

 material sufficient to elucidate all of their plumages or their geo- 

 graphic distribution and interrelations. 



HYPARGOS NIVEOGUTTATUS MACROSPILOTUS, new subspecies 



Meru Twin-spot 

 Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 246922, U. S. National 

 Museum ; collected in the Meru Forest, north of the Equator, British 

 East Africa, August 10, 1912, by Edgar A. Mearns. (Original num- 

 ber, 23560.) 



