1889.] BIRDS FROM EASTERN AFRICA. 363 



38. Xenocichla placida, n. sp. 



General colour above olive-brown, with a slight rufous shade 

 on tlie 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 buflp, 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 G-5 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 3, tail 3"2, 

 tarsus 0*9. 



Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., August. 



This species is nearly allied to X.albignlaris, Sharpe, from Fantee, 

 but is larger, has the bill shorter and the culmen more curved ; 

 the crown and back uniform, of a rather m.ore rufous shade aud 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. 



Pycnonohis layardi, Gurnev, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 576 ; Schal. 

 J. f. O. 1883, p. 360; Fiscli. Zeitsclir. ges. Oru. 1884, p. 341 ; id. 

 J. f. O. 1865, p. 137 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1N8.5, p. 256 ; Rchw. J. f. O. 

 1887, p. 75. 



S . Teita, June. 



40. Turdus tephronotus. 



Turdus tephronotus. Cab., Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 574 ; Fisch. 

 J. f. O. 1885, p. 141 ; Shelley, Ibis, 18»8, p. 299. 

 2 . Useri river, July 1 . 



(4l. COSSYPHA CAFFRA. 



Cossypha caffra (Linn.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. viii. p. 39 

 (1883). 



(S . Kilimanjaro, August 5. 



42. Bradyornis ater. 



Brady ornis ater, Sundev., Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 314 



(1877). 



cJ . Useri river, July. 



4S. Pratincola axillaris. 



Pratincola axillaris, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 556 ; 1885, p. 226. 



cJ ? . Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft., August. 



