278 TTMELIID^. 



a. Sunwier jjliimaye. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Accra. L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. (Type.s 



oi D. strangd.) 



c. Ad. sk. Accra. Governor Ussher [C.]. 



d, e, f. Ad. sk. Accra (J. Smifh). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 5^. Ad. sk. Accra {G.E.Shellei/). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



fj. Whiter plumage. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Accra, Jan. 1880. Governor Ussher [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Accra, Feb. 7, 1872. Capt. Shelley [P.]. 



f?. Ad.; e. 9 iuv. sk. Laudana, Cono-o. Messrs. Lucan and Petit 



[C.]. 



25. Cisticola natalensis. 



Dryinoica natalensis, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. 80 (1843) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 103 (1848); Bp. Consn. i. p. 283 (1850); 



Gurnep, Jbis, 1863, p. 324 ; Lcu/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 87 (1867) ; 



Gurneij, Ibis, 1868, p. 155 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 193, no. 2744 



(1869) ; Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 372 ; Shellei/, Ibis, 187-5, pp. 380, 381. 

 Drymoica curvirostris, Siindev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 



1850, p. 104; Gurneij, Ibis, 18Q3, p. 323, 1865, p. 273 ; Layard, B. 



S. Afr. p. 93 (1807) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 275 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 198, no. 2747 (1869). 

 Drymoica chloris, Simdev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1850, 



p. 104 ; Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 198, no. 2765 (1869). 

 Drymreca curvirostris, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. 5. p. 30 (1871) ; Shelley, 



iUs, 1875, pp. 380, 381. 

 Cisticola natalensis, Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 261 (1876) ; 



Shelley, Ibis,_ 1882, p. 253. 

 Cisticola cui-virostris, Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 263 (1876) ; 



id. in Oates's Matabele Land, App. p. 309 (1881). 

 Cisticola chloris, Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 203 (1876). 



Adult male in summer 'plumage (C. curvirostris). General colour 

 above brown, all the feathers margined with ashy buff, giving a 

 strikingly grey appearance to the U])per surface, the head more or 

 less uniform brown without dark mesial streaks ; the feathers of the 

 hinder neck slightly margined with sandy colour ; wing-coverts 

 brown, the edgings to the majority clear grey, the least and some 

 of the greater series margined with sandy ; quills dai-k brown, with 

 indistinct light tips, the primaries edged with rufous sandy, the 

 inner secondaries margined all round with light buff; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts nearly uniform greyish, the latter with dark 

 brown bases or centres to the feathers, giving a streaked mottled 

 appearance ; tail ashy brown, tipped with white and faintly mar- 

 gined with pale sandy ; the white tips indistinct on the two centre 

 feathers, which have a plain subterminal bar of black, as also have 

 all the other feathers ; lores yellowish white ; eyebrow greyish ; 

 sides of face dull white, the ear-coverts washed with greyish brown 

 and narroAvly streaked with white down the shaft ; sides of neck 

 greyish ; throat and centre of the body white, the sides dull tawny 

 yeUow, the upper breast laterally ashy browu ; thighs deep tawny. 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 2-85, tail 2-4, tarsus 1-15. 



