11. crsTicoLA. 259 



dusky ; feet reddish ; iris clear brown " {Heuglin). Total length 

 5-5 inches, culraen 0-55, wing 'I-lb, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-85. {Mus. R, 

 G. Wardlaw Ramsat/.) 



Jfah. Abyssinia and the Upper-Xile region. 



This species is very closely allied to C. tinniens, and requires 

 careful comparison with that species to assure its real distinctness. 

 Dr. Finsch has suggested that C. maiyiaalis is really the same as 

 C. eri/throrjeni/s, Riipp. ; and this accounts for his" identification 

 of Mr. Jesse's bird above described, which is certainly Heuglin's 

 C. marginalis, and which appears to me to be easily separable from 

 C. eriftJirogen)/.^, as Heuglin himself has pointed out. I have com- 

 pared Jesse's bird with the typo in the Vienna Museum, kindly lent 

 me by Dr. Steindachner. 



16. Cisticola cisticola. 



La Fauvette cisticole, Vieill. Faune Franc, p. 27, pi. 102 &<r 1 

 (1820). y f , L^ 



Sylvia cisticola, Temm. Man. d'Oni. i. p. 228 (1820) ; id. PI. Col. vi. 

 lig. 3 (1820j ; id. Man. d'Orn. iii. p. 123; Vonder Miihle, Monogr. 

 Europ. Si/h. p. 122 (18.56). 

 Priuia cursitaus, Frankl. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 118; Jerd. Madr. Juurn. 



xi. p. (1840) : id. III. Ind. Orn. pi. vi. (1847). 

 Cj'sticola cisticola, Less. TraiU, p. 415 (1831); Licht. Nomencl. 



p. 31(18-54). 

 Sylvia (Cisticola) typus, Rupp. Nem Wirb. Voff. p. 113 (183-5-40). 

 Drymoica cisticola, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 242 (1837) ; Gray, Gen. 



B. i. p. 164 (1848). 

 Salicaria cisticola, Gould, B. Enr.^l. 113 (1837); Keifs. n. Bias. 

 Wirb. Eur. p. Iv (1840) ; SM. Rev. Crit. p. xxx (1844) ; Binder in. 

 Vd(/. Grierkenl. p. 9.5 (1860). 

 Cisticola schoenicola, Bp. Comp. List B. Eur. 4" iV". Amer. p 12 

 (18.38); Bli/th, Cat. B. Mus. Js. Soc. p. 145 (1849); Bp. Consp. 

 i. p. 286 (1850) ; Cab. Mus. Hein.Th. i.p. 44 (1850); Heugl Si/st. 

 Uebers. p. 21 (1856) ; Tristr. Ibis, 1859, p. 160 ; Humeijer, J. f. O. 

 1862, p. 283; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 174 (1863) ; Swinh. Ibis, 1863, 

 p. 303 ; Giylioli, Ibis, 1865, p. 52 ; Lunel, Bull. Soc. Orn. Suisse, 

 i. p. 10 (1865); Blyth, Ibis, 1866, p. 23 ; Loc/ie, E.rpl. Sci. Alqer., 

 Ois. i. p. 281 (1867) ; Degl. 8; Gerbc, Orn. Eur. i. p. 537 (1867) ; 

 A.C. Smith, Ibis, 1868, p. 441 ; Brooks, t. c. p. 130 ; Hume, Ibis, 

 1870, p. 136; Swinh. i.e. p. 345; Sharpe, f.c. p. 475; Gurneu, 

 Ibis, 1871, p. 83 ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 352 ; Holdsio. P. Z. S. 

 1872, p. 455 ; S/ielley, B. Eqi/pt, p. 97 ; Hume, Nests ^- Eggs Ind. 

 B. p. 343 (1873); id. Str. F. 1873, p. 4.39 ; Adam,t.c. p. 382 ; 

 Jatnes, t. c. p. 420 ; Hayes Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 412 ; Hume, Str. F. 

 1874, p. 233, 1875, p. 137 ; Butler, t. c. p. 481 ; Hume, t. n. p. 481, 

 note ; Irby, B. Gibraltar, p. 91 (1875) ; Lilford, Ibis, 1875, p. 17 ; 

 Blyth S,- Wald. B. Burm. p. 119 (1875) ; Wharton, Ibis, 1870. 

 p. 19; Ball, Str. F. 187(5, p. 234. 

 Drymoica uropygialis, Eraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 17; Allen 8c Thomps. 

 Exped. Niger, ii. App. p. 491 (1849) ; Eraser, Zool. Typ. pi. 42. 

 fig. 2 (1849) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 164 (1848) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 198, no. 2756 (1S69). 

 Prinia subhimalayaua, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xiii. p. 377 (1844). 

 Priuia cisticola, Blyth, t. r. p. 377 (1844;. " 



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