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lines whitish ; cheeks, throat, and underparts generally yellowish 

 or yellowish white, whiter on the ahdomen, the sides of the body 

 ashy brown ; flanks and thighs pale tawny ; under tail-coverts 

 fulvous; under wing-coverts tawny buff; upper mandible light 

 orange-brown, shaded with deep reddish brown ; lower mandible 

 straw-yellow ; feet pale reddish yellow. Total length 5-2 inches, 

 culmen 0-5, wing 1-85, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-85. 



The female is smaller, measuring only 1'75 inch in the wing and 

 0-75 in the tarsus. 



In full ivinter plumage the bii'd is larger than in summer, the 

 wing in the male measuring 2-1 inches, tbe tail 2-9. The colour 

 also is far more olive-ashy above and far more fulvous below, the 

 sides of the body ashy ; the tail-feathers are also plainly margined 

 with fulvous. 



This species bears considerable resemblance to two others, with 

 either of which it may be easily confounded. One of these is 

 C'isticola ruJiccqjiUa of Western Africa, which is distinguished by its 

 shorter tail with a distinct black subterminal bar, and by the want 

 of an eyebrow. It is not so easy, however, to distinguish C. aher- 

 rmis from the winter plumage of Dri/odromas fulvicapiUa, excepting 

 by its long tail (exceeding the wing in length) and by its larger size, 

 and especially by its larger bill. 



Hab. South Africa, from the interior of the Cape colony to Natal, 

 and thence northwards to the Mashoona country. 



a, 5. [c?] a^d. sb. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



(Types of D. aherrans^ 

 «. [ 2 ] ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



(Type of D. ruficapilla, Smith.) 



d. cJ ad. sk. Kingwilliamstown, June Capt. H. Trevelvan [P.]. 



24, 1877. 



e. Ad. sk. Kingwilliamstown. Capt. H. Trevelyan [P.]. 

 /. S ad. sk. Natal. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



<7, h. tS $ ad. sk. Pinetown, Natal, Jan. 29, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 1875 (T. L. Ay res). 



3. Cisticola buchanani. 



Prinia rufifrons {non Miipp.), Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 4 (1840). 

 Drymoica buchanani, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 376 (1844) ; id. 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 14:3 (1849). 

 Franlilinia buchanani, Jevd. B. Ind. ii. p. 186 (1863) ; Blyth, Ibis, 



1867, p. 24 ; Beavan, t. c. p. 455 ; Hume, Nests S)- Eggs Ind. B. 



p. 359 (1873) ; id. Sir. F. 1873, p. 195 ; Adam, t. c. p. 382 ; Butl. 



Str. F. 1875, p. 486 ; mime, t. c. p. 486 ; Fairb. Str. F. 1876, 



p. 259 ; Butl. Str. F. 1878, p. 183 ; Ball, t. c. p. 218 ; Hume, Str. 



F. 1879, p. 102 : Doig, t. c, p. 371 ; Butl. Str. F. 1880, p. 407. 

 Franklinia cleghornise, Blyth, Ibis, 1867, p. 24 {ex Jerd. MS.). 

 "Prinia buchanani, Gray, Hand-l. B. 1. p. 196, no. 2707 (1869) ; 



Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 57 (1882). 

 Prinia cleghornic-e. Gray, Hand-l. B. i, p. 196, no. 2708 (1869). 



Adult male. General colour above pale brown, rather ashy in 

 shade ; the lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; the 



