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Hah- Abyssinia and the Galla country southwards to 

 Lake Rudolf. 



Type : S • Ghadi-Saati, Mareb River, Erytlirea, 10. ii. 03 : 

 G. Sclirader coll. 



Obs. Riippell (' Neue Wirbeltiere/ p. 94, pi. 33) says that 

 in the male of P. sicainsoni the throat and belly are paler 

 than the rest of the nnderparts, -while in the female there is 

 a pure ^vhite streak down the throat. He gives as localities : 

 Abyssinia, Seunaar, Kordofan, and the West Coast of Africa. 

 The plate shows a bird with a distinct white throat. Prof. 

 Romer, of the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt-a.-M., has 

 kindly lent me the three typical specimens, which all prove on 

 examination to be white-throated birds, though the white 

 throat is more distinct in one male and in the female than in 

 the second male. TIk'sc birds are identical in colour with birds 

 collected by the Hon. N. C. Rothschild and Mr. Wollaston 

 at Naikhala, Atbara River, and by Mr. H. F. Witherby at 

 Shebesha and Khartum. The grey-throated bird from 

 the Abyssinian highlands is therefore without a name, as 

 Fijrgita crassirostris, Heugl., from Fazogioa is probably 

 the same form as that found at Khartum. 



/ Halcvox albiventris erlangeri, subsp. n. 



Halcyon albiventris orientalis, Erlanger (nee Peters), J. f. 

 Orn. 1905, p. 447. 



Adult male and female. Similar to //. a. orientalis, Peters, 

 from Mozambique and German East Africa, but much 

 smaller. Wing 92-97 mm. 



Hub. Southern Soinaliland. 



Type in the Ingelheim Museum : S • Bardera, 1. vi. 01 : 

 C. v. Erlanger coll. 



Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Gkant exhibited and described 

 examples of two new species of Grass-Warbler [Cisticola) , 

 which he proposed to name : — 



Cisticola belli, sp. n. 



Adult male. Most nearly allied to C. c/iubbi, Sharpe, and, 

 as in that species, the lui'cs are blach, but it diflfers in 



