156 



3. Sylviella ruficapilla. 



Sylvietta ruficapilla, Socage, Jorn. Lish. xxi. p. 160 (1877); id. Orn. 

 ' Angola, p. 282 (1881). 



Adult fe.male. General colour above ashy grey, with a slight tinge 

 of olive ; lesser, median, greater, and primary-coverts, and bastard 

 wing like the back, with the greater coverts edged with ashy 

 whitish; quills dusky brown, externally margined with olive, the 

 secondaries more ashy and less distinctly edged with olive ; tail- 

 feathers brown, n?a-rowly edged with olive ; tips fringed with 

 whitish; crown of head light rufous; lores yellowish white ; feathers 

 round the eye and ear-coverts light rufous, as also the hinder 

 cheeks ; fore part of cheeks and throat white, slightly tinged with 

 yellow, succeeded by a band of light rufous on the fore neck ; chest 

 ashy grey, as also the sides of the neck ; breast and abdomen white, 

 slightly ashy on the sides of the body ; thighs light tawny ; under 

 tail-coverts yellowish white, tinged with tawny on the vent ; under 

 wing-coverts yellow, slightly tinged with tawny ; edge of the wing 

 a little lighter ; asillaries pale sulphur-yellow ; quills dusky below, 

 inner edges whitish. Total length 3-8 inches, culmeu 0-5, wing 2-45, 

 tail 1-05, tarsus 0-8. 



Hub. Bonguela. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Caconda, Benguela (Atichieta). Lisbon Museum [P.]. 



4. Sylviella virens. 



Sylvietta microura (tion Eiipp.), Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1856, p. 318. 

 Sylvietta virens, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 39 ; Hartl. J.f. O. 



1861, p. 111. 

 Bteocerca virens, Heine, J.f. O. 1859, p. 426; Peichen.J.f. O. 1877, 



p. 29 ; Sharpe Sf Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 306 ; 



Bocage, Orn. Angola, pp. 285, 554 (1881). 

 Drymoica virens, Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 202, no. 2844 (1869). 



General colour above dull olive-green ; lesser and median wing- 

 coverts like the back ; greater and primary-coverts, bastard wing, 

 and quills dull brown, edged with a little brighter olive-green than 

 that of the back ; primaries a little more ashy on the outer web ; 

 tail-feathers dusky brown with olive-green edges ; crown of the 

 head dusky brown, contrasting slightly with the back ; lores and a 

 narrow eyebrow pale rufescent butf ; ear-coverts fulvous with 

 whitish shaft-lines, upper margius shaded with brown ; cheeks pale 

 rufescent, slightly mottled with dusky edges to the feathers ; throat 

 dull white, with a slight rufous shade increasing towards the fore 

 neck, which is light rufous ; remainder of under surface white ; sides 

 of body ashy, shghtly washed with olive; thighs olive-yellow; under 

 tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow ; 

 quills below light brown; inner edges yellowish white; "tarsus 



