]y88.] FROM EQUATORIAL, AFRICA. 23 



Cisticola mentalis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 241. 

 No. 152. $. Risuo, Oct. 3, 1882. 



This specimen agrees perfectly with others from the Gold Coast 

 in the British Museum. 



22. Cisticola cinerascens, Heugl. 



DrymcEca concolor, Heugl. Ibis, 1869, p. ^7, pi. 2. fig. 1. 

 Cisticola concolor, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 253. 

 Cisticola cinerascens, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 248. 

 No. 25. S. Tingasi, July 19, 1883. 



23. Cisticola lateralis (Fraser). 



Cisticola lateralis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 251. 



No. 775. c? . Abiambana, July 28, 1883. 



This species appears hitherto to have been met with only on the 

 west coast of Africa. 



24. Cisticola rufa (Fraser). 



Cisticola hypoxantha, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 624 ; id. Abhandl. 

 nat. Ver. Brem. vii. 1881, p. 89; id. Zool. Jahrb. ii. 1886, 

 p. 332. 



Cisticola rufa, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 252. 



No. 186. d. Tobbo, May 19, 1883. 



This specimen agrees perfectly with others in the British Museum 

 from the Gold Coast. 



25. Cisticola ferruginea, Heugl. 



Cisticola ferruginea, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 265 ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 257. 



No. 28. ? . Wadelai, July 28, 1885. 



Nos. 121, 122, 123. 6 ?• Wadelai, Sept. 13, 1885. 



No. 55. $ . Wadelai, Feb. 2, 1886. 



The British Museum here receives for the first time a remarkably 

 fine series of this striking little Grass- Warbler. 



26. Cisticola marginalis (Heugl.). 



Cisticola marginalis, Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem. vii. 1881, 

 p. 89 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 258. 



Cisticola marginata, Pelz. Verb. Wien, xxxii. 1882, p. 501. 

 No. 287. 6 ■ Lado, March 31, 1884. 



27. Cisticola cisticola (Temm.). 



Cisticola cursitans, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 266, 

 Cisticola cisticola, Sharjje, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 259. 

 No. 113. d • Wadelai, June 17, 1886. 



