128 Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant on Birds 
a. S inira. Gelongol, Abyssinia, 13 March, 1899. 
(No. 412.) 
Iris brown ; bill and legs dark slate. 
An immature male undoubtedly belongs to this rare species. 
It is unfortunately tailless, but otherwise closely resembles 
the figure given by Riippell; the back, wing-coverts, lower 
breast, and flanks are, however, mixed with brown feathers, 
evidently the remains of young plumage. 
This species is new to the British Museum Collection. 
[When first shot the white dots on the breast were well 
defined.—L.] 
27 . Pytelia citerior. 
Zonogastris citerior (Strickl.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 
xiii. p. 299 (1890). 
a. $ imm. Blue Nile, Abyssinia, 16 May, 1899. 
(No. 513.) 
Iris brown ; bill reddish ; legs light. 
This immature specimen, in somewhat worn condition, has 
the underparts pale sandybrown; only one or two barred 
feathers of the adult plumage are beginning to make their 
appearance on the breast. 
28. Pytelia lineata. 
Pytelia lineata Heugl. J. f. O. 1863, p. 17 ; Sharpe, Cat. 
B. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 301 (1890). 
a. [^]vixad. Lake Chercher, Abyssinia, 12 January, 
1899. (No. 167.) 
b. $ imm. Didesa river, Abyssinia, 21 March, 1899. 
(No. 438.) 
Iris brown ; bill in a red, in b reddish brown; legs light 
horn-colour. 
The nearly adult specimen before us agrees well with 
Heuglim's original description of the male; but some of the 
feathers on the crown of the head and back, as well as those 
on the middle of the breast and underparts, are sandy brown, 
and evidently the remains of immature plumage. Specimen 
b , an immature female, has the whole of the upper parts, 
including the top of the head, earthy brown, the cheeks, 
