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from Somaliland and Southern Abyssinia. 
b. Middle of the breast and belly cinnamon-rufous like the 
sides, or if paler, as is sometimes the case in faded 
examples, not contrasting with the sides and flanks. 
c l . Back and upper parts grey, without any tinge of 
olive. 
a 2 . A marked blackish band from the base of the 
bill passing through the eye, dividing the pale 
buff well-marked superciliary stripe from the 
cheeks and ear-coverts of the same colour: 
larger wing 2‘4-2*5 inches, culmen 07 . rvfescens. 
b 2 . No dark band from the base of the bill through 
the eye. 
a 3 . Culmen not exceeding 0-55 inch in length. 
« 4 . Superciliary stripe, cheeks, and ear-coverts 
rufous - cinnamon; bill pale brownish 
horn. whytii. 
5 4 . Superciliary stripe, cheeks, and ear-coverts 
whitish ; bill black... pallida . 
b 3 . Culmen 07 inch in length; very indistinct 
superciliary stripe, cheeks, and ear-coverts 
whitish. isabellina. 
d l . Back and upper parts pale grey tinged with olive, 
especially on the rump and upper tail-coverts; 
superciliary stripe, cheeks, and sides of face pale 
cinnamon-rufous like the rest of the underparts : 
culmen 055 inch, wing 2 , 0-2 , l.. minima. 
B. Crown and sides of the head chestnut; rest of upper 
parts grey. ruficapilla. 
C. Crown brown or reddish brown, rest of upper parts 
olive-green or dull olive-green. 
c. A wide white superciliary stripe; chest grey; under 
tail-coverts yellow. lencophrys. 
d. Superciliary stripe narrow, pale rufous white ; chest 
reddish brown ; under tail-coverts.white. virens. 
e. Superciliary stripe brownish white ; breast and belly 
yellow ; under tail-coverts white. 
e l . Sides and flanks olive-green. faviventris 
f l . Sides pure white ; flanks ashy . stampflii. 
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112. Camaroptera brevicaudata. 
Camaroptera brevicaudata (Cretzsch.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. 
Brit. Mus. vii. p. 168 (1883); Salvad. Ann. Mns. Civ. Gen. 
xxi. p. 144 (1884) ; Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1898, p. 409 
[N. Somaliland], 
