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ashy margins, a little tinged with yellow on the secondaries ; 

 upper tail-coverts ashy, with a very faint tinge of yellow ; tail- 

 feathers pale brown, edged with light ashy and tipped with whitish, 

 which extends some distance up the inner web of the outer feathers ; 

 crown of head olive-yellow, contrasting with the back somewhat, 

 and darker on the occiput, nape, and hind neck ; base of forehead 

 and feathers above the eye a little paler yellow, but not sufficient 

 to be called an eyebrow ; lores dusky ashy ; eyelid yellow ; ear- 

 coverts yello^v like the head ; fore part of the cheeks and chin 

 white ; throat and under surface of body light sulphur-yellow, 

 becoming paler on the lower breast and abdomea ; the lower abdo- 

 men, thighs, and under tail- coverts very pale yellow, mixed with 

 white ; sides of body and flanks pale yellow, shaded a little with 

 ashy ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, with a tinge of 

 yellow on the edge of the wing ; quills dusky below, inner edges 

 whitish. Total length 4-5 inches, culmen Ooo, wing 2-35, tail 1'9, 

 tarsus 0-75. 



Hab. South-eastern Africa, from the Eastern Transvaal north- 

 wards into the Mashoona country. 



a. Ad. sk. Rustenbur^, Transvaal, Julv 24, J. H. Gurney, Esq. [P.]. 

 IS78 {T: Ai/res). 



8. Eremomela hypoxantha. 

 Eremomela hypoxantha, Pelz. Sitz. z.-b. Ges. Wien, 1881, p. 145. 



Adult. Above brownish olive, including the upper wing-coverts ; 

 lores blackish ; quills brown, the inner ones edged with olivaceous ; 

 the second primary intermediate between the fifth and sixth ; whole 

 of the under surface, with the under wing-coverts, pale sulphur- 

 yellow ; tail-feathers brown, tipped with white, the centi-e ones 

 with a greenish gloss and showing obsolete black transverse stria- 

 tions : bill and feet black. Total length 4", wing 2", tail 1" 3'", 

 bill from forehead 4", from gape 6'", tarsus 6'". 



Differs from E. scotnps, Sundev., in its lesser stature and propor- 

 tions (the second quill in E. scotops being equal to the seventh). 

 It is like E. hemixantha, but smaller, and differs in the second 

 quill being between oth and 6th, and not between 7th and Sth or 

 8th and Oth, or equal to the 7th. Two outer tail-feathers only 

 1'" shorter than the longest. {Von Pdzdn.) 



Hab. Kiri, Equatorial Afn'ca. 



9. Eremomela elegans. 



Ficediila elegans, Heugl. Si/st. Uebers. p. 23, no. 195 ("1856). 

 Eremomela elegans, Heiu/l. J.f. O. 1864, p. 259; Finsch ^- Hartl. 



Vixj. Osfnfr. p. 241 (1870). 

 Eremomela caiiescens, Antiti. Cat. descrr. Ucc. p. 38 (1864) ; Saivad. 



Atti R. Accad. Torino, 1870, p. 733, pi. 2. 

 Drymoica elegans, Grai/, HandX B. i. p. 203, no. 2857 (1869). 

 Tiicholais elegans, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 286, tab. v. (1869); 



Hartl. Abhandl. iiatiirw. Ver. Bremen, viii. p. 190 (1882). ' 



