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TIJIELnD^. 



Adult. General colour above brown ; wing-coverts, bastard wing, 

 and primary-coverts dark brown, tipped witb white spots, preceded by 

 a subterminal bar of black ; quills brown, externally edged with 

 rufescent brown ; secondaries with a white bar at tip, preceded by a 

 subterminal bar of black : upper tail-coverts like the back, with a 

 narrow line of white at tip, and a subterminal shade of darker brown ; 

 tail-feathers brown, tipped with white, with a very distinct subter- 

 minal shade of blackish : crown of the head dusky blackish, darker 

 than the back ; lores, feathers round the eye, ear-coverts, and cheeks 

 dusky blackish ; sides of the neck brown like the back ; throat, fore 

 neck, and chest ashy whitish barred with black ; abdomen white ; 

 breast, sides of the body, and flanks white, more broadly barred with 

 black ; thighs blackish, barred with white ; under tail-coverts barred 

 with black and white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white, 

 with a few dusky bars near the edge of the wing ; quills below brown ; 

 inner edge of quills fulvescent. Total length 6 inches, cidmen 0*65, 

 wing 2-15, tail 2-85, tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. West Africa : Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. Gaboon. M. Verreaux, 



7. Burnesia socialis. 



Prinia socialis, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832. n. 89 : Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. 

 p. 3 (1810) ; BIyth, J. A. S. Be^ig'. xiii. p. 376 (1844), xvi. p. 455 

 (1847) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 102 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. B. 3Ius. 

 As. Soc: p. 143 (1849) ; Frasei: Zool. Typ. pi. 43 (1849) ; Bj}. 

 Cans}}. I p. 284 (1850); Layavd, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) xii. 

 p. 262 (1863) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 321 

 (1854); Jerd. B. Ltd. ii. p. 170 (1863): Blanf. Ibis, 1867, p. 464; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 196, uo. 2697 (1869) ; Blanf. J. A. S. Bern/. 

 xli. p. 273 (1871) ; Butler, Str. F. 1875, p. 479 ; Morgan, Ihu, 

 1875, p. 321 ; Legqe, Ibis, 1875, p. 397 ; Fairb. Str. F. 1876, p. 259 ; 

 Godwin-Amten,J. A. S. Beng.xh. p. 79 (1876); Fairb. .Str. F. 

 1877, p. 406 ; Davids. ^- Wenden, Str. F. 1878, part 2, p. 83; Ball, 

 t. c. p. 217 ; mime, Str. F. 1879, p. 101 ; Vidal, Str. F. 1880, 

 p. 67 ; Butler, t. c. p, 406. 



Prinia stewarti, Bh/th, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. p. 455 (1847) ; Gray, Gen. 

 B. i. p. 162 (1848) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 144 (1849) ; 

 Bp. Consp. i. p. 284 (1850) ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 171 (1863) ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 196, no. 2703 (1869); Hayes Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, 

 p. 412 ; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 480, 1876, p. 497 ; A. Anderson, 

 P. Z. S. 1878, p. 370 ; Hume, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii, p. 319 ; id. Str. 

 F. 1879, p. 101. 



Orthotomus socialis, Giebel, Thes. Orn. ii. p. 769 (1875). 



Prinia brevicauda, Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 521 (1880). 



Adult. General colour above dark slaty grey ; the rump with a few 

 tawuy buff feathers on each side : lesser and median wing-coverts like 

 the back : greater coverts dusky brown, with narrow edgings of paler 

 brown ; bastard-wing feathers brown, with ashy edges ; primary- 

 coverts sepia-brown ; quills dusky brown, externally edged with 

 light brown ; upper tail-coverts lighter slaty grey than the back and 

 slightly washed with brown : tail-feathers light brown, tipped with 



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