206 TIJIELIID.B. 



19. Cisticola textrix. 



Le Pinc-pinc, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii. pi. 131 (1802). 



Sylvia textrix, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. p. 208 (1817). 



Cysticola textrix, Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 415 (1831). 



Hemipteryx textrix, S^vains. Classif. B. ii. p. 224 (1837) ; Cab. Mus. 



Dryi 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 163 (1848) ; Laijard, B. S. Aft: p. 85 (1867) j 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 201, no. 2827 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above mottled, the back blackish brown, 

 with ashy-whitish edges to the mantle-feathers ; lower back and 

 rump reddish buff, slightly varied with dark centres to the feathers ; 

 lesser wing-coverts reddish buff; median and greater coverts 

 blackish brown, edged with reddish fulvous, rather more ashy on 

 the latter ; bastard-wing feathers and primary-coverts dusky brown, 

 with narrow rcddish-buif margins ; quills blackish brown, edged 

 with reddish buff, the secondaries narrowly margined and tipped 

 with ashv whitish ; upper tail-coverts blackish brown, with fulvous- 

 brown margins ; tail-feathers blackish brown, ceutro feathers paler 

 brown, all marked with whity brown on the edges and tipped with 

 white, more largely on the inner webs ; crown of the head rather 

 more rufcscent than the back, but streaked with dark brown in the 

 same manner ; hind neck paler reddish buff, with very small dark 

 centres ; lores and a tolerably distinct eyebrow buffy whitish, as 

 well as the feathers round the eye ; ear-coverts brown, M'ith blackish- 

 brown streaks ; cheeks and under surface whitish ; the throat and 

 fore neck minutely spotted with blackish, the spots much larger and 

 more distinct on the chest and breast, and disappearing into hair- 

 like lines on the abdomen ; sides of the body and flanks fulvous, 

 with longitudinal streaks of blackish brown ; tliighs tawny buff ; 

 under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries tawny 

 buff ; quills below ashy brown ; inner edge of quills pale reddish ; 

 " bill, legs, and toes pale buff-orange, the upper mandible deepened 

 with a shade of brown ; claws the same colour, rather brownish at 

 the tips ; eyes reddish " {Sir A. Smith). Total length 4-3 inches, 

 culmen 0-45, wing 2-05, tail 1-2, tarsus 0-9. 



Female. Similar to the male in colour, but smaller. Total length 

 3-7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 1-85, tail 1, tarsus 0-8. 



Eab. South Africa. 



a. [ $ ] ad. sk. S. Africa {Layard). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



*• [ d ] ad. sk. Swellendam ( W. Cairncross). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c, d. Ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.J. 



e. Ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.J. 



20. Cisticola terrestris. 



Drymoica terrestris, Sviith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. 74. fig. 2 

 (1849); Gray, Gen. B. i. p. lCi3 (1348); Bp. Consp. i. p. 283 

 (1850) ; Lai/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 01 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 197, no. 2738 (1809). 



