11. CISTICOLA. 267 



Cisticola brunnescens, Heuc/I. Ibis, 1862, p. 289. 



Cisticola ayresii, Hartl. Ibis, 1863, p. 325, pi. viii. fig. 2 ; Finxch, 



Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 321 (1870) ; id. <§■ Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 231, 



note (1870). 

 Hemipteryx imniaculata, Ilartl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 22 ; Gurnei/, Ibis, 



18U8, p. 165. 

 Dr^-moica ayresii, Lai/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 94 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. 



p. 200, uo. 2811 (1869). 

 Hemipteryx habessinica, Heugl. Ibis, 1869, p. 138; id. Orn. N.O.- 



Afr. i. p. 272, pi. yiii. fig. 1 (1869). 

 Hemipteryx oligura, Ilciiql. Ibis, 1869, p. 136, pi. iii. fig. 3 ; id. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. i. p. 270 (1869). 

 Hemipteryx iodopyga, Heur/l. Ibis, 1869, p. 137; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 



i. p. 271, pi. yiii. fig. 2 (18G9). 

 Drymoeca eximia, Heuyl. Ibis, 1869, p. 100, pi. iii. fig. 1. 

 Cisticola eximia, Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 262 (1869). 

 Urymoica immaculata, Grai/, Iland-l. B. i. p. 201, no. 2828 (1809). 

 Drymoica oligura, Gray, ihuid-l. B. i. p. 201, no 2829 (1869). 

 Drymoica iodopyga. Gray, t. c. i. p. 201, no. 2830 (1869). 

 Drymoica habessinica, Gray, t.c.i. p. 201, no. 2831 (1869). 

 Drymoica eximia. Gray, t. c. p. 201, no. 2824. 

 Cisticola habessinica, Blanf. Geol. Sf Zool. Abyss, p. 376 (1870). 

 Cisticola cursitans (wee Frankl.), Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 29 (1871) ; 



Gurney, Ibis, 1874, p. 106 ; Ay res. Ibis, 1878, p. 291 ; Sharpe in 



Oatess Matabele Land, App. p. 310 (1881) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, 



p. 254. 

 Cisticola terrestris, Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 151 ; Gumei/, Ibis, 1873, 



p. 257 ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 372 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 100. 

 Hemipteryx bruunescens, Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iy. Ann. n. Lxxyi 



(1871).' ^ ^ 



Cisticola iodopygia, Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. App. p. Ixxy (1871). 

 Diymoeca oligura, Giebel, Thes. Orn. ii. p. 63 (1875). 

 Drymoeca terrestris, Giebel, Thes. Orn. ii. p. 66 ( 1875). 

 Drymo3ca iodopyga, Giebel, Tlies. Orn. ii. p. 63 (1875). 



Male in hreeding-plumarie. General colour aboye black, very 

 slightly varied yyith ashy-fulvous margins to the feathers of the 

 back and scapulars ; lower back and rump tayyny buff, slightly 

 streaked yyith black centres ; wing-coverts blackish, edged with 

 ashy fulvous, inclining to whitish on the margins of greater coverts ; 

 primarj'-coycrts and quills dark broyvn, edged with rufous, especially 

 near the base of primaries, which are ashy brown along the re- 

 mainder of their outer margins ; upper tail-coverts nearly entirely 

 black, with only a very narrow margin of pale fulvous ; tail-feathers 

 black, margined with ashy fulvous and tipped with white, more 

 especially on the inner webs, the white increasing in extent on the 

 outer feathers and extending along the outer web of the external 

 tail-feather ; crown of head nearly uniform brown, with paler shaft- 

 streaks ; hind neck lighter brown, forming an indistinct coUar ; 

 lores and a tolerably distinct eyebrow, as well as sides of face, yel- 

 lowish butf, the upper edge of ear-coverts dark brown ; checks "and 

 under surface of body yellowish buff, mottled with blackish centres 

 to the feathers on the sides of upper breast ; sides of body and flanks 

 washed with tawny, thighs a little deeper tawny ; lower abdomen 

 and under tuil-coverts whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 



