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Birds f rom, British East Africa. 
two or three pairs were always hopping about in the bushes 
close to our tents and were absurdly tame; on one occasion 
a little Warbler, which I think was of this species, flew to a 
gauze cage in which were some small lizards, and, clinging 
to the side, endeavoured to get at the flies which I had put 
in for the lizards to feed on. They had, no doubt, seen 
them from the bush close by. 
83. Cisticola strangii. Strange's Fantail-Warbler. 
Cisticola strangei Sharpe. 
Bill light brown; legs light brown. 
Abundant everywhere. 
84. Cisticola hindii. Hinde’s Fan tail-War bier. 
Cisticola hindei Sharpe. 
Hinde's Fantail-Warbler was widespread and frequented 
the long grass in the more open country. It has a fairly 
strong flight and a very distinctive sharp note. 
85. Cisticola rufa. Fraser's Grass-Warbler. 
Cisticola rufa (Hartl.). 
Fraser's Grass-Warbler was rather rare, and only two 
examples were shot. 
86. Melocichla orientalis. Sharpe's Large Grass- 
W arbler. 
Melocichla orientalis Sharpe. 
I suspect that Sharpe's Large Grass-Warbler is commoner 
than I thought, but I only identified it twice, and it is repre¬ 
sented in the collection by a single example which was found 
caught in one of my small mouse-traps at Theki. I was 
seldom able to identify any of the smaller Warblers until I 
returned to England, and it was difficult to take any notes 
of the habits of a bird when I did not know whether I had 
seen it previously or not, and equally difficult, when so many 
species are much alike, to know whether I had got a specimen 
before—as, owing to our being continually on the move, 
every skin had to be packed up directly it was dried, 
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