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1889.] BIRDS FROM EASTERN AFRICA. 363 38. XENOCICHLA PLACIDA, n. sp. General colour above olive-brown, with a slight rufous shade on the crown and lower back; upper tail-coverts and tail rufous ; wings dark brown, washed with rufous on the edges of all the feathers, the edges of the primaries being slightly paler and yellower ; feathers in front of the eyes, lores and cheeks ashy ; wing-coverts brown, all with pale buff ill-defined shaft-stripes ; feathers surrounding the eye buff; chin, throat, and under surface of the body buff, washed with pale ashy olive across the crop and down the sides of the body ; axillaries and under wing-coverts yellowish white ; quills dark brown, with pale rufous-buff inner edges to the feathers, broadest towards their base. Upper mandible dark brown, with a pale cutting-edge; lower mandible paler and yellowish ; legs slaty brown, claws pale brown. Total length 6*5 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 3, tail 3*2, tarsus 0*9. Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., August. This species is nearly allied to X. albigularis, Sharpe, from Fantee, but is larger, has the bill shorter and the culmen more curved ; the crown and back uniform, of a rather more rufous shade aud not "washed with grey on the crown ; the wings more rufous, not edged with olive; tail similar. The underparts differ in the throat not being so white and the breast not being so strongly washed with bright yellow ; the under surface of the wings much the same in both. 39. PYCNONOTUS LAYARDI. Pycnonotus layardi, Gurney, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 576 ; Schal. J. f. O. 1883, p. 360; Fisch. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 341 ; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 137 ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 256 ; Rchw. J. f. O. 1887, p. 75. o*. Teita, June. 40. TURDUS TEPHRONOTUS. Turdus tephronotus, Cab., Shelley, P.Z.S. 1881, p. 574 ; Fisch. J. f. O. 1885, p. 141; Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 299. 2 • Useri river, July 1. 41. COSSYPHA CAFFRA. Cossypha caffra (Linn.), Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. viii. p. 39 (1883). 3 . Kilimanjaro, August 5. 42. BRADYORNIS ATER. Bradyornis ater, Sundev., Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. p. 314 (1877). o* . Useri river, J uly. 43. PRATINCOLA AXILLARIS. Pratincola axillaris, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 556 ; 1885, p. 226. 3 2 - Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft., August.