240 



rowly streaked witli brown ; 

 tips to outer tail-feathers 



ashy fulvous below subrujicapilla, p. 283. 



'. Flanks streaked with black .... tinniens aestiv., p. 273. 

 With no distinct subtermiual bar 

 on the tail-feathers, which have 

 paler tips only ; back nearly uni- 

 form aherrans hiem., p. 246. 



The following species, of none of which have I been able to see a specimen, 

 I have been unable to place satisfactorily in the above ' Eey.' 



1. CiSTICOLA L.lNDAN^. 



Oisticola landanre, Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 228 (1876); 

 Skarpe ^ Bouvier, op. cit. p. 305 (1876); Bocage, Orn, Angola, p. 554 

 (1881). 



Above brown, the head indistinctly mottled with darker brown, not distinctly 

 streaked ; back broadly streaked with black, the feathers with a broad black 

 streak down the middle ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts more of a 

 reddish brown ; wings dark brown, the wing-coverts and quills distinctly mar- 

 gined externally with rufous ; tail-feathers dark brown, the centre ones edged 

 with rufous, the rest tipped with rufous, all with a broad subtermiual black 

 mark ; lores and sides of face fulvous, the ear-coverts brownish ; entire 

 throat and jugulum whitish ; remainder of the body below fulvous, the thighs 

 brighter buff ; sides of the upper breast brownish ; under wing-coverts buff ; 

 biU blackish, the lower mandible pale. Total length 425 inches, bid 0'55, 

 wing 1-95, tail 1-6, tarsus 0'75. {Bouvier.) 



Hob. Congo region. West Africa. 



This species, which is closely allied to C. cherina, Smith, cannot be confounded 

 with that bird, as it differs in the flanks being entirely buff, in the reddish margins 

 of its qtdlls, and in its rufous upj)er tail-coverts. {Bouvier.) 



2. CiSTICOLA ORYZIOIiA. 



Drymoica oryziola, 8. Mull. ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 200, no. 2818 (1869). 



Hah. Timor ; Java. 

 Probably the same as C. exilis. 



3. CiSTICOLA LADOENSIS. 



Oisticola ladoensis, Eartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, viii. p. 189 (1882). 



Head rufescent, verj- distinctly spotted with dusky ; the back ashy, with large 

 spots of dusky blackish ; back unspotted ; scapulars dusky with pale margins ; 

 imderneath whitish with an ochraceous tinge ; under tail-coverts whitish ; under 

 wing-coverts isabelline ; maxiUa horn-colour, the manchble pale ; the quUls less 

 distinctly edged with rufous. Total length 59 inches, culmen 0'45, wing 2'5, 

 tail 2-1, tarsus 0-85. {Hartlatib.) 



Hab. Lado, Equatorial Africa, 



4. CiSTICOLA SI.MPLEX. 



Drymoeca simples, Heugl. Ibis, 1869, p. 105. 



Drymoica simplex. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 200, no. 2796 (1869). 



Cisticola simplex, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 261 (1869). 



