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Calaniodyta natalensis, Lcn/nrd, B. S. Afr. p. 94 ( 18G7). 

 Drvodromas fulvicapilla, Fimch .V Hartl. Viig. O.sfafr. p. 239 (1870) ; 



S/iarpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 34 (1871) ; id. ed. Lm/ard B. S. Afr. 



p. 301 (1877). 



Adult male. Above brown, faintly darker in the centre of the 

 feathers, the upper tail-coverts somewhat washed with fulvous ; sca- 

 pulars slightly shaded with ashy, the lesser and median wing-coverts 

 clearly edged with ashy grey, the greater coverts and the quills 

 brown, washed with reddish brown, the margins of the quills rufes- 

 ceut, inclining to whitish ; tail-feathers brown, waved with dusky 

 cross lines and margined with yellowish brown, without any dark 

 subterminal bars to the feathers; head and nape uniform rufous; 

 lores buff, extending backwards over the eye and forming a faint 

 eyebrow ; sides of face grey, shaded with fulvous on the upper and 

 hinder margin of the ear-coverts ; entire under surface of body ashy 

 grey, whitish on the chin and malar line ; centre of abdomen and 

 vent also whitish, the under tail-coverts very pale yellowish ; under 

 •wing-coverts buffy whitish, slightly washed with fulvous near the 

 edge of the wing, the lower series ashy brown like the lower surface 

 of the quills, which are edged with light rufous along the inner web ; 

 " upper mandible light brown : lower one pale ; tarsi and feet pale ; 

 iris light yellowish brown" {T. At/res). Total length 4-3 inches, 

 culmen 0'45, wing 1-9, tail 1*85, tarsus G'To. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but rather smaller and not so 

 brightly coloured. Total length 3-5 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 1-7, 

 tail 1-5, tarsus 0-75. 



Youny. Differs from the adult in having the under mandible 

 much yellower, the upper surface being uniform brown, the head 

 slightly more reddish brown than the back. Under surface of body 

 very pale ashy, throat and abdomen whiter, the fore neck slightly 

 tinged with yellow. 



Eirds in winter plumage, and young after their first moult, from 

 the Transvaal, differ in wanting the grey shade underneath, the 

 under surface of the body being yellowish buff, a little lighter on 

 the throat and abdomen. On the upper surface the general colour 

 is brown, as in the full-plumaged bird, and the rufous head is equally 

 well pronounced. In the winter plumage this species is very similar 

 to Cisticola aherrans ; but in the latter bird the tail is always 

 longer than the wing, and its feathers are rather pointed. 



Hah. South Africa, from the Knysna district eastwards to Xatal, 

 and thence through the Transvaal to Northern Damara Land. 



a. Ad. sk. Knysna. R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



6. c? juv.sk. Knysna. C. J. Andersson,Esq. [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. George, .Tune 1870 {H. R. B. Sbarpe, Esq. 



Atmore). 



d. Imm. sk. Grahamstown (T. C. At- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



moi'e). 



e. Ad. sk. Swellendam (Cairncross). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



/. J ad. sk. KingT\illiamstown, Mav 5, Capt. H. Trevelvan [P."!. 



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