250 TTMELnD^. 



body bii% whitish, purer white on the throat and abdomen ; sides 

 of the body and flanks washed with deeper fulvous ; thighs tawny 

 buff: under tail-coverts pale yellowish buff: under wing-coverts 

 and axiUaries light tawny butf: (juills below ashy brown; inner 

 edge of quills rufescent. Total length 4'8 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 

 2-15, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-9. (2Ius. Berol.) 



The chief difference in the winter and summer plumage consists 

 in the more orange-rufous colour of the wing, the generally more 

 ashy colour of the back, which extends onto the nape and occiput. 

 The sides of the crown also are brighter rufous in the winter dress. 

 The types of C. cinerascens, Heugl., lent to me from the Stuttgart 

 Museum, are in worn breeding-plumage, when the colours are 

 everywhere more faded out. I am also indebted to Dr. Peters for 

 the loan of the type of Heuglin's C. concoJor. 



Hah. Gold Coast, West Africa ; Bogos country, in jS^.E. Africa, 

 extending southwards into the Zanzibar district in Eastern Africa. 



7. Cisticola erythrops. 



Drymoeca erythrops, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 58 (185G) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 



1870, p. 475 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 3i (1871) ; Shelley S)- Buckley, 



Ibis, 1872, p. 287. 

 Di7moica erythrops, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 199, no. 2788 (1869). 

 Melocichla p^i-rhops, Cab. J.f. O. 1875, p. 236; Reichn. J.f. 0. 



1877, p. 30'; Cab. J. f. O. IS/^S, p. 222. 

 Cisticola erythrops, Sharpe ^ Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, ii. 



p. 476 (1877) ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1880, p. 57 ; id. Orn. Angola, 



p. 553 (1881). 

 Drymoica (Cisticola) erythrops, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1880, p. 57. 



Adult. General colour above ashy olive-brown, with tufts of silky- 

 buff feathers on each side of the rump ; lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back ; median and greater coverts, bastard wing, primary-coverts 

 and quills ashy, with narrow rufescent margins ; quiUs ashy brown, 

 with rufous-brown edges ; the inner secondaries more ashy, with 

 indistinct dusky cross markings and pale fulvescent edges ; upper 

 tail-coverts like the back ; centre tail-feathers ashy olive, the re- 

 mainder clearer ashy, with broad yellowish-buif ends to the feathers, 

 preceded by a broad bar of black ; crown of the head like the back, 

 the base of the forehead tawny rufous, with a shade of the latter ex- 

 tending over the hinder crown and occiput ; lores and eyebrow 

 tawny buff, paler on the former ; feathers round the eye, ear- 

 coverts, and cheeks also tawny buff; throat and under surface of 

 the body pale tawny buff, whiter on the throat, breast, and abdo- 

 men ; sides of the body and flanks ashy grey : thighs deep tawny ; 



