NovrcATEs ZooLoaioAE XXVII. 1920. 465 



590. Calamonastes fasciolatus pallidior Hart. = Calamonastes fasciolatus 



pallidior. 



CaUmumaates fasciolatus palUdior Hartert, Bull. B.O. Clvh, xix. p. 97 (1907— Huxe, " Sandpits," and 

 Makonjo in Benguella). 



Type: ^ ad., "Sandpits," Benguella, 8.vii.l904. W. J. Ansorge leg. 

 No. 259. 



t 591. Cisticola floweri Hart. = Cisticola ruflceps. 



Cisticola floweri Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xxvii, p. 12 (Sennaar, Blue Nile) ; fig. Ibis, 1918, pi. x. 

 fig. 8. 



Type : Sennaar, Blue Nile, 28. vii. 1909. S. S. Flower leg. No. 870. 



Messrs. Sclater and Mackworth-Praed, Ibis, 1918, p. 651, say that the series 

 in the British Museum prove that C. ruficeps has a very distinct seasonal change 

 of plumage, the winter birds having the back boldly striped with black and 

 yellowish, while the summer birds (described by me as C. floweri) have the back 

 plain greyish brown, with very faint traces of darker stripes to the centres of 

 the feathers. Though it has been known for some time that the winter and 

 summer plumages of many Gisticolae differ (for example, the head being either 

 uniform "rufous or boldly streaked in G. exilis), this was not known in the case 

 of G. ruficeps. 



Messrs. Sclater and Mackworth-Praed separate the Kordofan form Gisticola 

 ruficeps ruficeps and the Upper Nile and Sennaar one as E. ruficeps scotoptera. 

 This, however, requires confirmation, for on two specimens collected by A. L. 

 Butler at Gedaref (east of Sennaar), in April 1901 (boldly streaked but much 

 worn, evidently shortly before the moult), Oscar Neumann made a note on the 

 labels saying that he compared them with the types of ruficeps in the Frankfurt 

 and Berlin Museums from Kordofan and found them completely alike in plumage. 



(?) 592. Cisticola neumamii Hart. = Gisticola prinioides neumanni (or 

 Gisticola prinioides prinioides ?). 



Cisticola neumanni Hartert, BuU. B.O. Club, xii. p. 13 (1901 — Mt. Kenya). 



Type : Western slope of Mt. Kenya, 10,000 feet, 7.viii. 1899. J. Mackinder 

 leg. No. 46. 



This form requires confirmation by a series. Are not G. prinioides and 

 C. hunteri perhaps seasonal forms of the same species ? 



593. Cisticola cisticola arabica Hart. = Gisticola cisticola arahica. 

 Cisticola cisticola arabica Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1917. p. 458 (South Arabia — ^Yemen and Lahej). 



Type : Hajeilah, Yemen, 2,080 feet, l.iv. 1913. G. W. Bury leg. No. 583. 



594. Cisticola natalensis inexpectata Neum. = Gisticola natalensis inexpectata. 



Cisticola natalensis inexpectata Neumann, Joum. f. Dm. 1906. p. 268 (Shoa and Lake Abassi). 



Type : (J, Lake Abassi, 5. xii. 1900 (not 4. xii. 1900). Oscar Neumann leg. 

 No. 352. 



