8, kui:mojii;i,a. Mil 



covorts like tlio buck ; greater coverts more awhy, faintly tinged 

 with yellow ; liiistaril wing and priinary-covorts dusky, with narrow 

 ashy tidgcs ; (luill.s li;;ht, dusky l)rown, narrowly marfj;in('d with 

 yi'llow ; inner secondaries nioro ashy; upjier laii-coverls l)rifj;hler 

 yellow like I ho rump; tail-fealhers olive, inirrowly edj^ed wilii 

 yellow, the outer feathers li)»|)ed with pale yellow, which exteiidn 

 up the inner woh ; crown of head and nape li}j;ht ashy, contrasting 

 with the hack; loroH, eytdid, and leallierH round the eye whil<»; 

 feathers over tlio eyo also white, hut scarcely forming an eyelitl ; 

 oar-coverts pale hrown, white near the aiderior part ; cheeks white ; 

 sides of neck a«hy, slightly tinged with yidlow ; throat, fore neck, 

 and chest white, the latter with slight grey tinges ; breast, abdomen, 

 sides of body, flaidis, and thighs light sulphur-yellow ; under tail- 

 covei'ls a litllo brighter; under wiug-coveils and axillaries white 

 faintly washed with yellow ; edge of (he wing yellow; (piills dusky 

 below; inner edges whitish. Total length IVH inches, culmen U'l.'), 

 wing 1-S, tail l-r*, tarsus D-li. 



Huh. West Africa, from Seneganiliia to the (jold Coast. 



a. Ad.sk. Itiver ( iiitnliiii. I'lU'clinsed. 



6, f, rf.Ad.sk. Kivcr (iaiiibin. 1'urclia.sL'd, 



f). Eremomela usticoUis, (i'latit V. fig. 2.) 



Ercnioniola usticoUis, Sumh-v, (KfvorH. K. Vft.-Alaid. Forli. Starkh, 

 IMW), p. 102; llfiu/l. Oni. N.b.-Afr. i. p. 28.") (18(5!)) ; I'iimh .V 

 Ilorll. Vo;/. (Miif'r. p. 241 (I870J; ,S/„njir, Vat. Afr. Ji. n. IH 

 (1871); Ai/rtis, tin's, IH" I, p. IM; (iurnt'ij in AiidciDn. li. JJam. 

 Lil. )). i»8 (1872); Aip-i's, Jblx, 187!), p. 40;i. 



Drynioica uslh-ollis, (I'luy, lluiid-l. U. i. p. 202, no. 2863 (1809). 



Ailull fiDinh'. (leneral colour above liglit grey; the ujjper tail- 

 coverts tinged with olivaceous; wing-coverts greyish like the l^ck, 

 the ha.stard wing and primary-coverts blackish brown ; (|uills dark 

 brown, externally »-dged with grey, the «econ<laries witii greyish 

 while ; tail-feathers aahy brown, washed with grey on the margins 

 of tlie feathers, which are all narrowly tipped with white ; lores 

 whitisii, iis also a narrow streak running above the eye ; round the 

 eye a circlet of bulf jilumefl ; cheeks white on the anterior part, dull 

 diestnut on the hiucler ])art ; ear-coverts tawny bulf, greyish on the 

 u])per margin ; throat huffy white ; rest, of under surface rich btdf, 

 with a distinct sjiot of chestnut on the fore neck, across which il- 

 almost forms u transverse l»ar ; under wing-coverts light fulvous ; 

 lower surface of ([uills iisliy brown, e<lged along the inner web with 

 whitish ; " upper mandible brown, tiie lower brownish llesh-colour ; 

 legs yellowish flesli-colour ; iris h'mon-colour '' { Ainhrimoii). Total 

 length 4-2 inches, c\dmen (J-d.'i, wing 2-()r), fail l-(), tarsus ()-H. 



Adult iiiiilf. Similar to the female in plumage. Total length 

 4-2 inches, culmen O-f), wing 2-2r), tail l-Of), tarsus O-Hri. 



Th<* rufous nnirk on the throat varies in intensity, and apparently 

 increases with age. 



Jliil). South Africa from the Transvaal to Uamara jjind. 

 VOL. vii. M 



