270 TIMELIID-T.. 



Cisticola tytleii, Jer<l. B. Lid. ii. p. 176 (1863, ex Blijth MSS.) ; 

 Bh/th, ibis, 18(i."), p. 24; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xlv. 

 p. "199 (187G) ; Hume, Sir. F. 1877, pp. 90, 350. 

 Cisticola rustica, Wa//. P. Z. H. 1803, pp. 19, 2o; Finsch, Neu- 



Guiiiea, p. 160 (180-)). 

 Cisticola semirufa, Cab. J. f. O. 18(>0, p. 10, 1872, p. 310; Wald. 



Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 19.5 ( 1875j ; Sharpe, Tr. Linn. 8oc. new ser. 1. 



p. 352 (1877) ; Wwdlaw Ramsay, Orn. Works Tweedd. p. 657 



(1881). 

 Drymoica tvtleri, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 200, no 2813 (1869). 

 Drjmoica volitans, Grai/, t. c. p. 200, no. 2815 (1869). 

 Cisticola delicatula, Bltjih, Ibis, 1870, p. 170 (ex. MSS. in Mus. Lngd.). 

 Cisticola melauocephala, J. Anderson, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 212; Sioinh. 



P. Z. S. 1871, p. 352; Godwin-Ausi. J. A. S. Beng. xliii. p. 165, 



pi. X. fig. 1 (1874); JIu7ne, Sfr. F. 1877, p. 90; Anderson, Zool. 



Exped. Yun-nan, Aves, p. 041 (1878) ; David ^ Oustalet, Ois. 



Chine, p. 257. 

 Cisticola ruficoUis, Walden, Ann. cV Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vii. p. 242 



(1^71) ; Godwin-Austen, J. A. S. Beng. xliii. p. 105, pi. ix. fig. 2 



(1874) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, Orn. Works Tweedd. p. 664 (1881). 

 Cisticola gravi, Walden, Ann. cS'- Maq. A^at. Hist. (4) ix. p. 400 



(1872) ; id. Trans. Z. S. viii. p. 1 17 (1874) ; Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1877, 



p. 828, 1878, p. 285; Wardlaiv Ramsay, Orn. Works Tweedd. p. 664 



(1881). 

 Cisticola ruficapilla, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. viii. p. 376 



(l'^^6). . . . _ . 



Cisticola, sp., Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. ix. p. 35 (1876); id. 



Orn. Pajniasia etc. p. 424 (1881). 

 Cisticola erytbrocephalns, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 101. 

 Cisticola melauocephalus, Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 101. 



Adult male in hreeding-iJilumage. General colour above ashy grey, 

 broadly streaked with blackish centres to the feathers of the mantle ; 

 lower back and rump ashy grey washed with sandy buff; wing- 

 coverts and bastard wing dusky brown, edged with ashy fulvous ; 

 primary-coverts and quills light brown, narrowly edged with ashy 

 fulvous, more rut'escent towards base of quills ; inner secondaries 

 edged all round with ashy ; upper tail-coverts sandy buff ; tail 

 feathers blackish, edged at extreme tip with dull white ; ci'own of 

 head uniform golden buff, a little dingy towards nape and hind 

 neck ; lores and feathers round eye buffy white ; ear-coverts hoary 

 whitish, washed with reddish on upper margin ; cheeks and sides of 

 neck golden, almost a reddish, buff; under surface of body whitish, 

 washed with reddish buff, which is deepest on breast, sides of body, 

 and flanks ; thighs tawny ; under tail-coverts white, washed with 

 reddish buff; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale reddish buff 

 like sides of breast ; quills below dusky, with their inner edge 

 ashy rufous ; " upper mandible dark brown, lower mandible and 

 gape fleshy pink ; nails and claws flesh-colour ; iris hazel-brown " 

 (Gates). Total length 3-5 inches, culmeu 0-45, wing 1-75, tail 1-15, 

 tarsus 0"7. 



Females are different from the males in having the head and 

 upper tail-coverts fiilvous-brown, broadly streaked M'ith black ; the 

 nape and hind neck uniform fulvous-brown, shaded with ashy ; 



