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Drymoeca mfifrous, Hani. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 57 (1857) ; id. J. f. O. 

 18Cil, p. 110; Blanf. Geol. Sf Zool. Abys.s. p. 374 (1870) ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Afr. B. p. 31" (1871) ; Antin. ^ Salvad. Viagg. Bogos, p. 109 

 (1873). 



Cisticola rufifrons, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 245 (1869). 



Urohipis rufifrons, Heugl Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. Ajjp. p. Ixxii (1873). 



Adult. General colour above pale ashy brown, with concealed 

 white tufts on each side of the rump ; wing-coverts brown, with 

 ashy-brown margins, rather paler on the greater series ; bastard- 

 wing feathers, primarj-coverts, and quills dusky brown, externally 

 edged with ashy brown ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers blackish, 

 with obsolete ashy margins and barred across with dusky under 

 certain lights, the outer feathers tipped with white and edged with 

 white along the outer webs ; hinder crown and nape like the back, 

 the forehead rufous ; lores and feathers round the eye dull white, 

 slightly mottled with blackish bases to the feathers ; ear-coverts 

 ashy brown, with whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks and throat white ; fore 

 neck, breast, and abdomen light yellowish buff : sides of the body 

 and flanks washed with ashy ; thighs tawny ; under tail-coverts 

 white ; under wing-coverts and axiUaries white ; quills below dusky ; 

 inner edge of quills ashy ; " bill blackish ; feet reddish ochracoous ; 

 iris ochraceous ; round the eye a bare ring of bright reddish yellow" 

 (Ileuglin). Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 1"85, tail 

 2'1, tarsus 0*75. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but with scarcely a tinge of rufous 

 on the forehead ; under surface white, tinged with fulvous on the 

 breast and flanks. 



Hab. The west coast of the Red Sea from about 17" N. lat., the 

 Bay of Tedjura and the Somali coast. 



a. Ad. sk. Zoulla, Annesley Bay, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



Feb. 8, 18G8. 



b. Pull. sk. Koomaylee, .June 4, 1868. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



c. S ad. sk. Koomaylee, May 1868 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



( W. Jesse). 



d. $ juv. sk. Rairo, June 14, 1868 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



( W. Jesse). 



4. Lryodromas damarensis. 



Eremomela damarensis, Walilh. (Ef». K. Vet.-Ahad. Fiirh. Stoclh. 



1855, p. 213 ; id. J.f. O. 1857, p. 2. 

 Drynioica damarensis, 6-'m^, Hand-l. B. i. p. 203, no. 2861 (1869). 

 Dryodromas damarensis, Finsch ^- Hartl. Viig. Ostafr. p. 240 (187()) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 34 (1871) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. 



Ld. p. 95 (1872) ; Sharpe, ed. Lni/ard B. S. Afr. p. 300 (1877 ). 



A((ult male. Head and neck above ashy grey, the back light olive- 

 yellow, becoming brighter yellow on the upper tail-covcrts ; wings 

 brown, the wing-coverts externally olive-yellow like the back, the 

 quills ashy brown, the outer webs washed with yellow and narrowly 

 tipped with whitish; tail-feathers olive-brown, externally washed 



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