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tify niy former conclusion that the species is identical with Riippell's Troglodyte 

 micrurus, Neue Wirb. Abyss, pi. 41, fig. 2. The upper parts of the body are 

 constantly clear yellowish olive, with the head above dark brown, throat and 

 breast only rufous, abdomen white with a yellow tinge in the middle. It is 

 clearly not the bird figured in Lefebvre's Abyssinia Ois., pi. 6, which is in the 

 Acad. Coll. labelled "Senegal." The present bird has the bill shorter and less 

 curved, and the wings and even the tail shorter than in either of the species 

 of Sylvietta now before me. It may, indeed, indicate a distinct generic or sub- 

 generic group. 



Genus Htlia, nobis. 



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Small, in general appearance sylviform. Bill curved, upper mandible thick 

 or wide on the lateral view, compressed towards the end, carinated, nostril in a 

 large membrane. Wing moderate, first quill spurious, third and fourth long- 

 est and nearly equal, tail rather long, legs moderate, tarsus with about four 

 large scales in front, toes slender, claws rather large. Type Sylvia prasina, 

 Cassin. 



63. Htlia prasina, (Cassin.) 



Sylvia prasina, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philada. 1845, p. 325. 

 "Stiphrornis superciliaris, Temm. Mus. Lugd." ? 

 This bird is by no manner of means a Stiphrornis, if S. eryththrothorax is the 

 type, which appears to be the case, nor is it a Chloropeta of which C. natalensis, 

 Smith, is the type, nor moreover do we know any other genus to which it be- 

 longs, and so set up for ourselves as best we may. Numerous specimens from 

 the Camma and the Moonda. 



64. Phyllopneuste umbrovirens, (Riippell) ? 



Sylvia (Ficedula) umbrovirens, Riipp. Neue. Wirb., p. 112? 

 Two specimens in immature plumage, exceedingly like S. sibillatrix and S. 

 icterina of the Acad. Coll. These specimens are much as described by Riip- 

 pell as above. From the Camma. 



65. Cisticola cursitans, (Franklin.) 



Prinia cursitans, Frankl. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1841, p. 118. 

 Sylvia cisticola, Temm. ? 

 Gould B. of Eur., pi. 113. ? 



Several specimens now received from the Camma are scarcely different from 

 the bird of Europe or that of Asia. Specimens from the Cape of Good Hope 

 and from Northern Africa, strictly the same as the present specimens so far 

 as I can see, are in the Acad. Coll. They rather more closely resemble 

 Asiatic specimens, but are scarcely different specifically from those of South- 

 ern Europe. 



Genus Parmoptila, nobis. 



Allied to Pardalotus. Size small, bill thick, rather wide at base, depressed, 

 curved. Wing moderate, first quill spurious, second and third longest, 

 tail moderate, legs rather strong, toes moderate, claws strong. Feathers of 

 the head and throat in the present species, scale-like. 



66. Parmoptila Woodhousei, nobis. 



5 . Head and throat covered with rounded scale-like feathers, which are 

 rufous, lighter on the throat, brighter and nearly brick-red on the forehead. 

 Back, wings and tail light umber brown with a slight tinge of greenish on 

 the back, quills brownish black edged internally with reddish white. En- 

 tire under parts (except the throat) white, thickly spotted with brownish 

 black. Bill bluish black, legs yellowish white (in skin.) 



5 . Upper parts including head, brown tinged with olive, under parts 



parts of the body. Possibly the birds represented in the two plates cited may 

 not be identical. The species described by Lafresnaye as above, is labelled 

 " Senegal." 



[Jan. 



