11. CISTICOLA. 273 



y. Ad. sk. Cape York. Capt. Stanley [P.]. 



6, e. (S ad. sk. Cape York. F. D. Godman and O. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



C, rj, 6, 1. Ad. sk. Cape York. F. D. Godman and 0. Sal- 



hiem. vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



K, X. Juv. sk. Cape York. Gould Collection. 



fi. Ad. sk. Port Essington. Gould Collection. 



v. tj ad. sk. Mount Ernest, Torres J. MacgilUvray, Esq. [C.]. 



Straits. 



^. Ad. sk. Pelican Island. J. MacgilliTraj, Esq. [C.]. 



22. Cisticola tinniens. 



Malurus tinniens, Licht. 7 e?x. Samml. Kaffernl. p. 13, no. 70 (1842). 

 Drymoica levaillantii, Smith, 111. Zool. S. Aft: pi. 73. fig. 2 (1842) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 1G3 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 283 (1850) ; 



Gurney, Ibis, 1863, p. 324, 1865, p. 274 ; Lmjard, B. S. Afr. p. 90 



(1867); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 197, no. 2737 (1869): Gurney in 



Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 87 (1872). 

 Drymceca tinniens, Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 31 (1858). 

 Drymceca levaillantii, Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 291. 

 Drvmoica elegans, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 200, no. 2799 (1869, ex 



Finsch ^- Hard. 31 S.) ; Finsch i^- Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 237, 



note (1870). 

 Drymodyta tinniens, Sundev. At: Meth. Tent. p. 6 (1872). 

 Cisticola tinniens, Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 265 (1876) ; 



Ayres, Ibis, 1878, p. 408. 



Adult female. Head and nape entirely rufous, with the exception 

 of the centre of the cro-vru, which is obscured by broad streaks of 

 dull black ; back black, slightly streaked with pale ashy buff, some 

 of the feathers edged with this colour ; the wing-coverts also black, 

 broadly edged with ashy tulvous slightly iucliuing to rufous ; quills 

 brown, broadly margiued with dull rufous, so that the external 

 aspect of the wing is of this colour ; the inner secondaries black like 

 the back, and margined in the same way with fulvous ; lower back 

 and upper tail-coverts black, with very broad margins of sandy or 

 rufous-bufl' ; tail-feathers brown in the centre, broadly margiued 

 ^\"ith duU rufous, all but the two centre feathers having a broad bar 

 of blackish before a pale fulvescent tip, the outermost edged with 

 pale fulvous externally : lores and a very distinct eyebrow pale 

 rufous-buff : sides of face light fulvous, with a few whitish streaks 

 on the ear-coverts, the hinder margins of which incline to rufous like 

 the sides of the ueck ; throat and underparts generally fulvescent 

 as also the cheeks, on the latter beuig a few indications of dusky 

 tips to the feathers ; the chest and sides of the body darker and 

 more ashy fulvous ; the sides of the breast and flanks very broadly 

 streaked with black, extremely pronounced on the flanks ; nnder 

 tail-coverts uniform ashy fulvous ; thighs orange-rufous ; under 

 wing-coverts pale tawny buff ; " bill black, the lower mandible 

 reddish, but black at the extremity ; legs pale flesh-colour ; iris 

 brown " (Andirsson). Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 

 1-95, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-8. 



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