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of the back, and the underparts are yellowish white, with fulvous 

 flanks and rufous sides. In the stage of plumage above desciibed 

 the birds are identical with Prinia mystacea of Eiippell, which has 

 also been recorded by Jardine from Western Africa. Brymce.m 

 meJanorhyiicha from ^Vestern Africa is identical with South-African 

 specimens from iVatal, and it follows that the young birds from 

 Western Africa would be in the plumage of P. mystacM ; hence 

 Jardine and Eraser were perfectly right in speaking of the latter 

 bird as West-African, though their statement has been somewhat 

 discredited by recent authors. 



Hah. The whole of Africa below the Sahara in suitable localities. 



a. (S ad. sk. 



b. Jiiv. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d. Juv. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 

 /. Ad. sk. 

 g. Ad. sk. 



h, i, k. Ad. sk. 

 I. Ad. sk. 

 m. Juv. sk. 

 n, Juv. sk. 



"■ 6 ,:. p, q, i; *■• 



2 .juv. sk. 

 t. c? hiem. sk. 

 u. $ ad. sk. 

 V. Ad. sk. 

 tc. 5 ad. sk. 



x,y. (S 9- fid. sk. 



z. (S ad. sk. 



a'. Juv. sk. 



b'. Ad. St. 

 c'. Juv. St. 



Dongolo, TigTe, 7000 feet, 



May 18, 1868. 

 N.E. Africa (Kotschy). 

 River Gambia. 

 River Gambia. 

 Ashantee. 

 Accra. 



Accra (Haynes). 

 River Volta [irsslier). 

 Conde, Congo {Dr. Liican). 

 Tete, Zambesi (Sir J. Kirk). 

 Elephant \lev, Damara 



Land, Aug. 8, 1859 ( C. J. 



Anderssoii). 

 Ovaqueuvama, May 1867 



(C. /. 14.). 

 Transvaal {T. Ay res). 

 Natal. 

 Natal. 

 Natal ( T. Ay res). 



Pinetown, Natal, Feb. li)7o 



(T.L. Ayres). 

 Pinetown, March o, 1875 



(T. L. Ayres). 

 South Africa. 



Natal. 

 Africa. 



W.T.Blanford,Es(i.[C.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 Purchased. 



E. McCarthy, Esq. [C.]. 

 Governor Ussher [C.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 M. A. Bou\ier. 

 Livingstone Expedition. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 Dr. Guemzius [C.]. 

 T. Ayres, Esq. [C.]. 

 F. D. Godman and O. 



Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.], 



Sir A. Smith [C.]. (Tvpe 



of D. affinis) 

 Purchased. 

 Zoological Society. 



6. Prinia iaornata. 



Prinia macrom'a, FranTd. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 118 (nee Lath.) ; Jerd. 



Madr. Joiini. xi. p. 4 (1840). 

 Prinia inornata, Si/kes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 89 : Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. 



p. 4 (1840); Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. -370 (1844); Fraser, 



Zool. Typ. pi. 44 (1849) ; Laijard, Ann. if Mag. Xat. Hist. (2) xii. 



p. 253 (1853) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 197, no. 2718 (1869). 

 Sylvia lougicaudata, tickell, J. A. S. Beng. ii. p. 576 (1833). 

 Di-ymoica frauklinii, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 376 (1844) ; id. 



'Cat. B. Mu.i. As. Soe. p. 143 (1849). 

 Prinia fusca, Hod(/s. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mi/s., App. pi. 30 ()iest) ; 



id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 82 (1844) ; id. P. Z. S. 1845, p. 29 ; 



Gray, Cat. Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodgs. p. 63 (1846). 



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