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the following particulars : the bill is longer and more 

 slender ; the back and wing-coverts greyer brown ; the tail 

 much shorter (e. e. 54 mm., as compared with 65 mm. in 

 C. chubbi), with the middle pair of feathers conspicuously 

 barred and the outer pairs tipped with grey and edged 

 with white (not with buff or clay-colour). The outer 

 edges of the primary-quills are conspicuously rufous-brown. 

 From C. woosnami, which is also found in the same locality, 

 it is at once distinguished by having the bill longer and less 

 curved ; the under mandible black, instead of pale horn ; the 

 lores black instead of white, and the back greyer, contrasting 

 with the reddish-brown crown. Iris hazel ; bill black; feet 

 light brown. 



Total length ca, 5*2 inches ; culmen 0*65 ; wing 2"35 ; 

 tail 2'05 ; tarsus I'O. 



Hab. Muhokia, S.E. Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., 31. v. 06. 



Ohs. This species inhabits the papyrus-swamps. It is 

 named in honour of Mr. W. A. Bell, one of the subscribers 

 to the Ruwenzori Expedition. 



CiSTICOLA WOOSNAMI, Sp, U. 



Adult male and female. Most nearly allied to G. rufopileata, 

 Reich., and, as in that species, the lores are white ; but the 

 bill is shorter, the culmen more curved, the under mandible 

 always pale horn-colour ; the upperparts much lighter and 

 of an olive-brown. Iris hazel; npper mandible black; 

 lower mandible whitish horn-colour ; feet flesh-colour. 



^ , Total length ca. 5-0 inches ; culmen 0"55; wing 26; 

 tail 2*1 ; tarsus 0'9. 



? . Total length ca. 4'7 inches ; culinen 0*57; wing 2*15 ; 

 tail 1'8; tarsus 0'85. 



Hab. South-east Ruwenzori, 3400 ft., v. 06. 



Obs. A large series of specimens was collected in the dry 

 acacia-country surrounding the south end of the range. 



Mr. R. B. WoosNAM, the leader of the Ruwenzori 

 Expedition, who had procured the type-specimens of both 

 the above species of Grass-Warbler, made the following 



