144 TIMELIID^. 



5. Euprinodes flavocinctus. 



Dryodromas flavida, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 222 {nee Stn'ckl.). 

 Euprinodes flavocinctus, Sharpe, J. f. O. 1882, p. 346. 



Adult male (Adi ; Dr. J. M. Hildcbrandt). Yerv similar to E. fla- 

 vida, of the same form, and having broad tips of light yellow to the 

 tail-feathers, but differing in its dull olive-yellow upper surface, 

 the hinder crown and forehead being dull ashy ; lores and eyelid 

 whitish ; car-coverts dull ashy, not slaty blue ; yellow band across 

 the chest paler and narrower than in E. flavidus. Total length 

 4*5 inches, culmen O'o, wing 1-8, tail 2, tarsus 0'8. {Mas. Berol.) 



Hah. Adi, Ukambani, East Africa. 



3. DRYODROMAS. Type. 



Dryodromas, Finsch ^- Hartl. Voc/. Osfafr. p. 239 (1870). D. f ulvicapilla. 

 Urohipis, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. Ajyp. p. Ixxii 



(1873) D. rufifrons. 



Foot oi Dryodrovms alhiyularig, to show proportions of toes. 

 Ranrje. Confined to Southern Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head entirely rufous. 



«'. Tail-feathers brown; back brown fuh-icapilla, p. 144. 



h'. Tail-feathers black, tipped with ashy; back 



ashy melanura, p. 14(3. 



b. Head ashy brown like the back ; forehead ru- 



fous ; tail-feathers black, tipped with white . . rufifrom, p. 146. 



c. Head and neck pearly grey, contrasting with the 



olive-yellow back ; underneath pui-e white . . damarensis, p. 147. 



d. Head oHve or ashy lilie the rest of the back ; 



underneath ashy white icterojrt/ffialis, p. 148. 



1. Dryodromas fulvicapilla. 



Le Rousse-tete, Levaill. Ois. dAfr. iii. p. 98, pi. 124 (1802); .Smidev. 



Krit. Framst., Levaill. p. 38 (18o7j. 

 Svlvia fulvicapilla, Vieill. N. Did. d' Hia. Nat. xi. p. 217 (1817) ; 



' B<mn. et Vieill. Enc. Mcth. ii. p. 463 (1823). 

 Drvmoica fulvicapilla. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 163 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. 



1. p. 282 (1850) : Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 94 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. 1. p. 203, no. 2859 (1869). 

 Drymceca fulvicapilla, Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 31 (1859). 

 Camaroptera natalensis, Hartl. Ibis, 1863, p. 326, pi. A'iii. fig. 1 ; 



Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 157. 



