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British-East-African Birds. 
in individuals from the same locality, and the age of the 
feather seems to me to have something to do with this con¬ 
dition of the plumage.—It, B. S.] 
16. Cinnyris ^equatorialis Reichen. Orn. M.B. vii. 
p. 171 (1899). 
Cinnyris acik (nec Antin.) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1891, p. 592. 
a } g ad. Athi river, Aug. 5, 1899. 
h, c, 148, 154, E a d. et imm. Athi river, Sept. 7, 1899. 
[This race of C. acik , which has recently been described 
by Prof. Reichenow, seems to me to be easily distinguishable 
by its larger size.—R. B. S.] 
17. Phylloscopus trochilus (Linn.); Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, 
p. 152. 
a, $ ad. N’gong, Masailand, Dec. 18, 1898. 
18 Euprinodes hildegard,® Sharpe. 
Euprinodes hildegardce , Sharpe, Bull. B. O. C. x. p. xxviii 
(1899). 
Nos. 160, 164, d $ . Athi river, Sept. 7, 1899. 
These specimens were shot on the edge of a little swamp 
close to my camp on the Athi river. During six weeks spent 
in this neighbourhood I saw only one other specimen, which 
unfortunately I failed to pick up when it fell into the river. 
[The pair of birds obtained by Dr. Hinde appear to me 
to belong to a new species of Euprinodes , which I have 
proposed to call, after Mrs. Hinde, Euprinodes hildegardce. 
It may be characterized as follows :— 
E. similis E. schistaceo Cass. ( cf Sharpe, Cat. B. vii. p. 142), 
sed rectricibus externis tantum albo marginatis nec 
omnino albis, pectore pallide cervino, distinguendus. 
Long. tot. 4*0 poll., culm. 04, alse 1*8, caudm 1*75, 
tarsi 0-6. 
So far as I can judge, the nearest ally to this species is the 
West-African Euprinodes schistaceus of Cassinfrom Gaboon, 
of which I have never seen an example. It is of a dark 
ashy grey above, with the lores and underparts of a pale 
isabelline-buff: tint, the throat somewhat whiter. The tail- 
feathers are blackish brown, the outermost being the shortest 
and having the tip and the whole outer web white; the 
