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under tail-coverts tawny buff; uuder wing- cot erts and axillaries 

 deep tawny ; quills below dusky ; inner edge of quills tawny. Total 

 length 5'3 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-15, tail 2"25, tarsus 0'95. 



Young. Like the adult, distinguished by its rufous face, but dif- 

 fering from it by its nearly uniform rufous-brown coloration and 

 deep tawny under surface, only the throat and abdomen being 

 white. 



Eab. West Africa, from the Gold Coast to the Congo ; jS^orth 

 Africa, in the Zanzibar district. 



a. Juv. sk. Senegambia. Purchased. 



b, c. \d. sk. Fantee ( Ussher). R. B. Shaipe, Esq. 

 d. Ad. sk. Elmina, May 1872 (H. F. BlkseU). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 e,f. Ad. sk. River Volta (^Ussher). R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 

 g. Ad. sk. Landana, Congo {L. Petit). M. A. Bouvier. 



8. Cisticola lateralis. 



Drymoica lateralis, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 16 ; Alleyi ^- Thomps. 



Exped. Niger, ii. p. 490 (1848) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 163 (1848) ; 



Bp. Con-sp'. i. p. 284 (1850) ; Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 198, no. 2754 



(1869). 

 Diymceca lateralis, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 55 (1857). 

 Drymoeca ruficapiUa {non Fraser), Sharpe ^- Bouvier, Bidl. Soc, Zool. 



France, i. p. 42 (1876). 

 Cisticola ruBcapilla (non Fraser), iid. t. c. p. 305. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above uniform dusky 

 brown ; lesser wing-coverts like the back, with paler brown 

 margins ; outer median and greater coverts, bastard-wing feathers, 

 primary-coverts and quills dusky, externally edged -nith rufous, very 

 distinct at the base of the primaries and forming a wing-patch ; 

 inner secondaries dusky brown hke the back ; upper tail- coverts dusky 

 brown ; taU-feathers dusky, externally dull rufescent brown, the 

 tips lighter and more ashy brown with a broad subterminal bar of 

 black ; crown of the head like the back : lores dull whitish ; ear- 

 coverts dusky brown like the head, with whitish shaft-lines ; cheeks 

 and under surface dull whitish ; the sides of the body and flanks 

 ashy brown ; thighs deep nifous ; under tail-coverts fulvescent. 

 Total length 5"1 inches, wing '2-b, tail 2-1, tarsus 0*95. 



Ohs. The type specimen was never in good condition ; and some of 

 the characters, such as the axiUaries &c., are too much injured to be 

 described. The specimens from the Congo, which I believed in 1876 

 to be the young of C. rnJicapiUa. are evidently immature, or winter- 

 plumagcd birds of the present species. They are lighter rufous above, 

 uniform in tint, the wing-coverts and quills broadly edged with deep 

 rufous; below, the body is sandy buff, whiter on the tliroat, fore neck, 

 and abdomen ; under wing-covcrts and axillaries light tawny, the 

 latter whitish at the base ; quills dusky brown below, rufous along 

 the edge of the inner web. One of these specimens shows on the 

 head some of the dusky brown feathers of the adult plumage. 



Hah. "West Africa, from Cape Pahnas to the Congo. 



