11. CISTICOLA. 243 



Hah. West Africa : apparently only found on the Gold Coast. 



a. Ad. sk. Accra. 



L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Fantee. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c, d, e. Ad. sk. Accra (J. Smith). R. B. Sbarpe, Esq. 

 ^. Ad. sk. Accra, Feb. 10, 1871 (^H. T. E. B. Sliarpe, Esq. 



Ussher'). 

 g. Ad. sk. Eiver Volta {H. T. Ussher). E. B. Sliarpe, Esq. 



Subsp. a. Cisticola meridionalis. 



Melocichla meutalis (non Fraser), Boccuje, Jorn. Lisb. 1870, p. 340; 

 Sharpe Sf Bouvier, Bull. Sue. Zool. France, i. p. 42 (1876) ; Beichen 

 J.f. O. 1877, p. .30; Bocage, Orn. Am/ola, p. 279 (1881). 



Melocichla pyrrhops (iion Cab.), Sharpe,' ed. Laijard B. S. Afr. p. 282 



(1877). 



Adult female. General colour above ashy brown, the rump gra- 

 dually inclining to rufous-brown ; forehead rufous, shading off into 

 ashy brown on the hinder crown ; lores duU white ; round the eye 



8. Cisticola grandis. 



Drymoeca (Cisticola) grandis, Socage, Jorn. 8c. Lisb. viii. p. 56 (1880)- 

 id. Orn. Angola, p. 553 (1881). 



Adxdt mcde. Above pale earthy bro\vn, the feathers of the back and scapulars 

 showing darker cross bars under certain lights ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 inclining to rufous ; forehead and ear-coverts ierruginous red, the auricular 

 spot streaked with fulvous; lores and feathers round the eye whitish ; a narrow 

 superciliary streak of pale rufous, not very distinct ; lower parts white washed 

 with dull rufous, the flanks shaded with brown, the throat and the middle of 

 the belly purer white ; on each side of the chin a black streak, commencing at 

 the base of the lower mandible and forming a moustache; under winf-coverts 

 reddish white; wing-coverts reddish brown, more decidedly browi? in the 

 centre ; quills dark brown, edged externally and internally with rufous ; two 

 centre tail-feathers earthy brown with reddish edges, the rest brown for a small 

 basal portion, afterwards black, and ending in reddish white, the outside tail- 

 feather edged with the latter colour on the external web; bill long, arched, 

 and compressed, black for the upper half, the lower mandible dirty white, 

 darker at the tip ; tarsi leaden brown, the toes darker in tint. Total length 

 7-5-8 inches, wing 3-25, tail 385, tarsus 1-05, bill 0-7. (Bocage.) 



Hab. Caconda in Benguela. 



The uniform pale earthy brown colour of the back, the presence of the black 

 streaks on the sides of the chin, and the leaden brown, almost blackish, colour 

 of the tarsi and toes seem to distinguish this species easily from all those 

 which approach it in size. {Bocage.) 



9. Cisticola uartlaubi. 



Cisticola marginabs, Hartl. {ncc Hcugl.) Orn. Centralhl. 1881, p. 12 ; id. 

 Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii, p. 89 (1881). 



Head olivaceous brown, with scarcely conspicuous darker spots, whence the 

 shade of the head becomes somewhat rufous; lores whitish; back dull ashy, 

 longitudinally marked with large d Ufky blackish spots ; back and rump ashy, 

 unspotted ; greater wing-coverts and iiiner secondaries dusky, margined with 



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