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centre tail-feathers nifons, the remainder dark brown, externally 

 rufous, with a bar of black before the tip, which is rufous-buif ; 

 lores whitish ; a narrow eyebrow of nifous-biiff ; ear-coverts pale 

 fulvescent, with paler shaft-lines ; cliecks and under surface of body 

 pale fulvous, whiter on the throat and abdomen, the sides of the 

 body more tawny ; thipjhs tawny rufous ; " bill reddish horny, the 

 tip blackish ; feet reddish ; iris clear brown " (Heuglin). Total 

 length 4-3 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 1-8, tail 1-6, tarsus 1-05. (Mas. 



Wini.) 



Hah. iS'.E. Africa, near the sources of the Rahad and Dender rivers, 



and about the Djur and Kosanga rivers. 



15. Cisticola marginalis. 



Drvmoica marginalis, Hem/l. Syst. Uehers. p. 22 (1856) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 199, no. 2781 (1869). 

 Cisticola Haveola, Heugl. Syst. Uehers. p. 21 (1856) ; id. Ibis, 1869, 



p. 14-3 ; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 249 (1869), iv. A)yp. p. Ixxiii (1873). 

 Drvmceca flaveola, Heugl. J.f. O. 1862, p. 289 ; id. Ibis, 1869, p. 98, 



pi. ii. fig. 2. 

 Drvmceca maTarinata, Heur/I. Ibis, 1869, p. 94, pi. i. fig. 1 ; Giehel, 



Thes. Orn. ii^p. 64 (1875). 

 Cisticola marginata, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 248 (1869), iv. App. 



p. Ixxiii (1873). 

 Drymoica flaveola, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 199, no. 2792 (1869). 

 Drvnioica eiythrogenys, Finsch, Trans. Zool. Soc. vii. p. 231 (1870, 



7iec liiqyp.). 



Adult female (Goon-goona; W.Jesse). General colour above black, 

 streaked with sandy buff, the feathers being black in the centre 

 with broad sandy-buff edgings on each side ; rump sandy buff, with 

 narrower black centres ; lesser wing-coverts ashy fulvous with black 

 centres, mostly concealed ; median and greater coverts black, ex- 

 ternally sandy rufous ; bastard-wing feathers black, externally 

 whitish ; primary-coverts and quills dusky brown, externally rufous, 

 deepest at the base of the quills ; inner secondaries deep black, with 

 broad whitish margins to the inner webs ; upper tail-coverts sandy 

 buff, rufescent near the base and centred with black, broader on the 

 longer coverts ; two centre tail-feathers sandy buff, with a longitu- 

 dinal black streak along the centre, widening slightly towards the 

 tip ; remainder of the tail-feathers ashy brown, externally washed 

 with sandy buff, tipped broadly with dull white, before which is a 

 broad black subterminal bar, the blackish shade more or less per- 

 vading the centre of the feathers ; crown of the head and nape bright 

 rufous, with short black spots in the centre of each feather ; hind 

 neck nearly uniform tawny rufous ; lores huffy whitish, extending 

 over the fore part of the eye ; feathers round the eye huffy whitish ; 

 ear-coverts and cheelis light rufous, with pale shaft-lines on the 

 former ; throat huffy whitish, deepening into bright sandy buff on 

 the fore neck, breast, sides of the body, and flanks ; abdomeu huffy 

 whitish ; thighs light tawny ; under tail-coverts sandy buff ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaiies light tawny ; quills below dusky ; inner 

 edge of quills rufous ; " bill reddish horny, the lower mandible more 



