NO. 20 TEX NEW AFRICAN BIRDS — M EARNS 3 



Description of adult male and female from Taveta and Mombasa. 

 — Head sudan brown, with feathers of crown edged at base with 

 blackish slate; entire under parts mars yellow; mantle dark green- 

 blue slate, mixed with sudan brown, cleft by a wedge-shaped area 

 of mixed blackish slate and sudan brown; wings slaty black, the 

 feathers bordered by dark green-blue slate; rump and upper tail- 

 coverts mars yellow ; tail mars yellow, the middle rectrices, (niter web 

 of outer rectrices, and very narrow edging to next to the middle 

 rectrices slaty black; axillars and under wing-coverts mars yellow. 

 In the dry specimen the bill is black ; feet and claws brown. 



Measurements of type (adult male). — Length of skin, 170; wing, 

 90; tail, 76; culmen (chord), 16; tarsus, 27.5. 



Average measurements of two adult males from Mombasa, British 

 East Africa (Carnegie Museum). — Length of skin, 172.5; wing, 

 96.5 ; tail, 82; culmen (chord), 16.5; tarsus, 28.25. 



Geographical range. — Coast region of British East Africa (Ta- 

 veta and Mombasa). 



Remarks. — The typical form Cossypha nataleusis natalensis from 

 Port Xatal, South Africa, is slightly larger than the subspecies gar- 

 guensis and intensa. 



BRADYPTERUS BABiECULUS FRATERCULUS, new subspecies 

 Escarpment Reed-Warbler 



Type-specimen. — Adult male, Cat. No. 244935, U. S. Nat. Mus. ; 

 collected at Escarpment, altitude 7,390 feet, on the Uganda Railway, 

 British East Africa, September 10, 1912, by Edgar A. Mearns. 

 (Original number, 24190.) 



Characters. — Most closely resembling Bradypterus babwculus 

 baba?culus (Vieillot), but darker brown above and less spotted below. 



Description of type (adult male). — Entire upper parts natal 

 brown ; a narrow superciliary stripe of grayish white ; cheeks and 

 ear-coverts mouse gray; chest, sides, flanks, and thighs yellowish 

 hair brown; throat and abdomen dirty white; feathers of throat and 

 upper chest with obsolete dark spots ; iris brown ; bill brownish 

 black, paler at base of mandible; feet and claws brown. 



Description of adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but more 

 drabish above, and paler on the abdomen (almost white), with the 

 throat more spotted, and with the pectoral band narrower and less 

 uniformly brown. 



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

 62; tail, 68; culmen (chord), 13 ; tarsus, 25. 



