148 TIMELIID^. 



with olive-yellow, all the feathers tipped narrowly with yellowish 

 white, the external one light yellowish hrown on the outer weh, the 

 penultimate one with a streak of the same colour near the tip ; lores 

 whitish, extending backwards over the eye, but scarcely forming an 

 eyebrow ; round the eye an indistinct circlet of dusky whitish 

 plumes ; car-coverts ashy grey ; cheeks and entire under surface of 

 body white ; the under tail-coverts irAe sulphur-yellow ; under 

 wing-coverts white ; '• upper mandible and tip of lower bluish black, 

 remainder of lower mandible bluish brown ; legs liver-brown ; iris 

 bright yeUow " (Andersson). Total length 4 inches, culmen 0*4, 

 wing 1-95, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male, and having a strong 

 shade of olive-yellow on the head. Total length 3"8 inches, wing 

 1-85, tail 1"65, tarsus 0-7. Prof. Wahlberg says that the female 

 is larger in size ; but this is not borne out by Mr. Andersson 's speci- 

 mens. 



Hah. Damara Land, S.W. Africa. 



a. Jan. sk. Damara Land (C J. An- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



defsso7t). 



b, c,d.S2 ad. sk. Oosop, Nov. & Dec. 1866 R. B. Sharpe, Esq, 



(C. J. Andersson) . 

 *. c? ad. sk. Oosop, April 4, 1865 (C./. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Andersson) . 



5. Dryodromas icteropygialis. 



Sylvietta icteropygialis, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 18.39, p. 258. 

 Oligocercus icteroijyga, Cnh. J.f. O. 1853, p. 109. 

 Drymoica icteropygialis. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 202, no. 2852 (1869). 

 Drymoica albigularis, F. 8f H., Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 203, no. 2860 



(18(19). 

 Diyodromas albigularis, Finsch ^ Hartl. Tog. Ostafr. p. 240 (1870) ; 



Sharpe, ed. Luyard B. S. Afr. p. 300. 



Advlt. General colour above olive-brown, rather more dingy on 

 the head ; the rump and upper tail-coverts dull olive-yellow ; wings 

 brown, the wing-coverts edged with the same olive-yellowish as the 

 back, the quills also edged with the same colour but rather brighter ; 

 tail brown, all the feathers distinctly edged with olive-yellow ; lores 

 and feathers over the eyo dull grey ; ear-coverts ashy brown ; cheeks 

 and under surface of body dull white, the sides of the body light 

 ashy brown, the upper breast laterally ashy grey ; thighs ashy 

 brown ; under tail-coverts yellow ; under wing-coverts light ashy. 

 Total length 4-1 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 2, tail 2-05, tarsus 0-75. 



Bah. South Africa, throughout the Orange-River district in Great 

 Namaqua Land, across to Natal, and thence along the south coast 

 to the Knysna. 



a. Ad. sk. Namacjua Land. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



