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h'. $ ad. sk. Otjimbinque, July 14, 1866 R. B, Shai-pe, Esq. 



{Andersson). 

 i'. $ ad. sk. Ondonga, March 27 {An- E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



dersson) . 

 k'. 2 iuv. sk. Ombougo, May 17, 1859 E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(C. J. A.). 



3, Prinia maculosa. 



La petite Fauvette tachetee du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Buff. 



Hist. Nat., Ois. v. p. 161 (1778). 

 Fauvette tachetee du Cap de Bonne Esperance, Daub. PI. E)d. vii. 



pi. 752. fig. 2. 

 Great-tailed Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 500. 

 Motacilla maculosa, Bodd. TaU. PI. Enl. p. 47 (1783). 

 Motacilla luacroura, Gmel. Si/st. Nat. i. p. 953 (1788). 

 Sylvia macroura, ZafJi. Ind. Orn. i. p. 545 (1790). 

 Le Capocier, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii. pi. 130 (1802) ; Sundev. Krit. 



Framst. Levaill. p. 39 (1857). 

 Malui-us capen&is, Stejih. Gen. Zool. xiii. p. 225 (1826). 

 Drvnioica capensis. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. 76. hg. 1 



(1843) ; Laijard, B. S. Afr. p. 92 (1867). 

 Drymoica maculosa, Graj/, Gen. B. i. p. 163 (1848) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 197, no. 2731 (1869) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Land, 



p. 82 (1872). 

 Drymoeca macroura, Cab, Mus, Hein. i. p. 43 (1850); Grill, Zool. 



Anteckn. p. 30 (1859). 

 Drymoeca maculosa, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 30 (1871) ; Shelley, Ibis, 



1875, p. 70 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard,' B. S. Afr. p. 259 (1876). 



Adult male. Above dull earthy brown, the wings a little darker 

 than the back, with indistinct rufous-brown margins to the quiUs, 

 the primaries narrowly edged with whity brown ; tail-feathers light 

 brown, with pale whitish tips but no subterminal bar of black ; lores 

 yellowish white, as also a distinct eyebrow ; cheeks and sides of face 

 pale yellowish, with distinct triangular spots of black obscuring the 

 yellow of the ear-coverts, which are also brown on their hinder 

 margin ; under surface of body pale yellowish, with distinct longi- 

 tudinal spots of black, larger on the breast and smaller on the 

 throat and on the sides of the body, which are washed with pale 

 tawny brown ; the abdomen unstrcaked pale yellow ; thighs dull 

 tawny ; the under tail-coverts also pale tawny brown, with indistinct 

 darker centres ; axiUaries and under wing-coverts light tawny buff, 

 the lower series ashy brown at the tips like the lower surface of the 

 , quills, which are edged with pale rufous along the inner web ; 

 biU flesh-colour, shading into dark brown on the upper mandible and 

 the tips of the lower one ; legs flesh-colour ; iris brownish yeUow. 

 Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2, tail 2-75, tarsus 0-S5. 



I have not seen an adult female of this species : but she will 

 doubtless be found to be a little smaller than the male. 



Tounrj. More rufous-brown than the adult ; quills dusky brown, 

 edged with rufous-brown ; underueath pale yellowish, with broad 

 mesial streaks of brown on the throat and breast. 



