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Show 364 CAPT. G. E. SHELLEY O N [June 18, 44. PlNAROCHROA HYPOSPODIA. Pinarochroa hypospadia, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 226, pi. 13. Kilimanjaro, 10,000-12,000 ft. 45. ALCIPPE KILIMENSIS, n. sp. Upper half of the head and back of the neck leaden grey, gradually passing into paler grey on the throat and front of the breast; back and scapulars uniform yellowish brown ; wings dark brown, all the feathers broadly edged with the same shade as the back ; tail-feathers dark brown, partially edged with yellowish brown ; centre of the breast white, washed on the sides with grey and then passing into yellowish brown, of a paler shade than the back, on the sides of the body ; under tail-coverts ashy white, slightly tinted with pale yellowish brown; under surface of the quills slate-colour, with white inner margins to the feathers ; under wing-coverts white. Bill brown, paler towards the base of the lower mandible ; legs brown. Total length 5*2 inches, culmen 0*55, wing 2*7, tail 2*6, tarsus 0*85. Kilimanjaro, 6000 ft., August. I have placed this bird in the genus Alcippe, a genus new to Africa, as its affinities appear to be with A. cinerea, Blyth, from Malayana, rather than with any other species known to me. Compared with that bird, it differs mostly in its rather larger bill, its entirely grey head and neck, and in the total absence of rufous shade on the wings and tail. 46. BRADYPTERUS BARRATTI. Bradypterus barratti, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 115 (1883). Kilimanjaro. 47. CISTICOLA HUNTERT, n. sp. Similar to C. subruficapilla, but a larger bird and much more dingily coloured, distinguished by the almost entire absence of rufous on the quills, and absolute absence of rufous on the tail. Upper parts dusky brown, with large blackish centres to the feathers ; edges of the feathers of the crown and wing slightly more rufous; tail-feathers with pale ends and a broad black subterminal bar, very distinct beneath. Underparts whitish ash, slightly paler and buffer on the chin, upper throat, and centre of the breast; thighs rufous-brown; under surface of the wings dusky black, with the coverts and inner edges of the quills ashy white. Bill black ; legs brown. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*5, wing 25, tail 3*1, tarsus 1. Kilimanjaro. 48. NECTARINIA MELANOGASTRA. Nectarinia melanogastra, Fisch. & Rchw. J. f. O. 1884, p. 181 Fisch. Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 337 ; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 14. 3. Ndara. Three specimens, collected on August 25th. All are in about half moult. |