276 TIMELIIDJi:. 



black spots ; entire back black, tbe feathers margined with ashy 

 fulvous or straw-yellow, the filarucnts long and hair-like on the 

 rump ; upper tail-coverts black, all broadly margined with ashy 

 fulvous ; wings black, all the coverts broadly margined with ashy 

 fulvous, more inclining to tawny buff on the greater series and on 

 the primary-coverts ; quills dark brown, externally edged with 

 tawnj- rufous, giving a very rufous aspect to the outer surface of the 

 wing; the secondaries black, margined all round with fulvous ; tail- 

 feathers dark brown, margined with fulvous-brown and tipped with 

 tawny buft', much more broadly on the outer feathers, before the tip 

 the colour deepening into black and forming a subterminal bar, 

 scarcely visible from above but very distinct below ; lores and a 

 broad eyebrow fulvous ; sides of neck rufesceut like the hind neck ; 

 cheeks and sides of face fulvous, the ear-coverts washed with ashy 

 brown and indistinctly waved with tiny cross bars of blackish ; 

 throat buffy white ; the rest of the under surface yellowish, deepening 

 into tawny yellow on the lower flanks, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts ; sides of the body somewhat washed with brown, inclining 

 to greyish brown on the sides of the upper breast, where the plumes 

 have blackish bases ; under wing-coverts light tawny buff; lower 

 surface of the quiUs light brown, edged with rufous along the inner 

 web ; " bill dusky horn-colour, the lower mandible yellowish ; feet 

 reddish ; iris clear brown "' (ffeuglin). Total length 5-3 inches, 

 culmen 0"65, wing 3"05, tail 2'65, tarsus 1"1. 



The female {I), erytlirofienys, lliipp.) is smaller than the mule 

 (D. robusta, Riipp.), and measures as follows : — Total length 5-2 

 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-5, tail 2-3, tarsus 1"05. 



The type of Drymoeca malzacii, Heugl.,is in the Vienna Museum, 

 and is certainly either the young or winter plumage of D. luguhris. 

 It is more yellow below, and has a much paler bill. On the upper 

 surface it is more fulvous than adult C. robusta, the edges to the 

 feathers being fulvous-brown, not ashy, and the hind neck is fulvous- 

 brown, not rufous. The ashy colour on the sides of the breast is 

 uniform, and not streaked with black as in the full-plumaged bird. 



Hab. North-eastern Africa. 



a. [ 2 1 ad. sk. Senafe, Abyssinia, Feb. 2o, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



1868. 



b. [d] ad.* sk. Adi^rat, Alarch 24, 1868, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



8J00 feet. 



24. Cisticola strangei. 



Brvmoica strangei, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 16 ; Allen ^ Thomps. 



Rvped. Niqer, ii. p. 490 (1848j ; B^h Consp. i. p. 284 (1850) ; 



Slielley, Ibis, 1875, p. 380. 

 Drymnica stangeri, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 1<)3 (1848). 

 Drymoica fortirostris, Jard. i^- Fraser, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 60; Cass. 



Pr. PJnlad. Acad. 1859, p. 37 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 198, no. 2757 



(1869). 



* Marked a female, but I tliink it is undoubtedly a male, from its size. 



