280 TiMELiiiu:. 



/3. Winter plumage (C. natalensis). 



a, b. S9. ad. sk. Natal (T. Ayres). J. H. Gurney,Esq. [P.]. 



e. S ad. sk. Natal {T. Ayres). J. II. Guruey, Esq. [P.]. 

 d,e. S 2 ad. sk. Natal. Br. Giieinzius \_G.]. 



f. Ad. sk. Natal. T. Ayres, Esq. [C.]. 



g. S ad. sk. Natal ( T. Ayres). II. B. Sliarpe, Esq. 

 h. Ad. sk. Natal {T. Ayres). R. B. SLarpe, Esq. 

 /,^. Ad. sk. Natal. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



(Types of species.) 

 L Ad. sk. Tibakai's Pau {F. Ontes). W. E. and C. G. Gates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 



26. Cisticola lugu'bris. 



Sylvia (Cisticola) liigubris, Miipp. Neue WirbeUh., Vog. p. Ill (1835 



-40). 

 Drymoica lugiibris, Siipj). Syst. Uebers. p. 56, tab. xi. (1845) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 163 (1848) ; Bj). Cunsj}. i. p. 283 (1850) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



^.i. p. 198, no. 2752(1869). 

 Cisticola lugubris, Des Murs in Lefebvre, Voy. Abyss, p. 89 (1845) ; 



Heuyl Syst. Uebers. p. 21 (1856); id. Ibis, 1869; p. 143; id. Orn. 



N.O.-Afr. i. p. 251 (1868), iv. App. p. Ixxiii (1871). 

 Drymoica fulvifrons, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockholm, 



i850, p. 104 ; Gray, Hand-l. IS. i. p. 199, no. 2770 (1869). 

 Drvmoica bizonura, Heuql. Syst. Uebers. p. 22 (1856). 

 Drymwca na-via, Hartl. 'Orn!W.-Afr. p. 56 (1857) ; id. J. f. 0. 1861, 



p. 1 10 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 475 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 31 (1871) ; 



SMley S( Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 287. 

 Drymoica nsevia, Cass. Br. Bhilad. Acad. 1859, p. 37 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 190, no. 2786 (1869). 

 Cisticola isodactyla, Fcters, J. f. 0. 18G8, p. 132 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 200, no, 2819(1869). 

 Cisticola hiematocephala, Cab. in Von der Decken, Beis., iii. Zuol. 



Aves, p. 23, tab. ii. fig. 2 (1869). 

 Drymoeca lugubris, Hevglin, Ibis, 1869, p. 101. 

 Drymoica isodactyla, Finsch l^ Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 236 (1870). 

 Drymoica stulta, Finsch i^ Hartl. t. c. p. 235. 

 Cisticola fulvifrons, Sharjje, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 264 (1876). 

 Cisticola naevia, Sharpe 8f Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, 



p. 306; Bocage, Orn. Angola, -p. 551 (1881) ; Hartl. Abhandl. nat. 

 Ver. Bremen, viii. p. 189 (1882). 

 Cisticola amphilecta, Reichetiow, J.f. 0. 1875, p. 44. 



Adult. General colour above ashy grey, broadly streaked with 

 black centres to the feathers; rump uniform ashy grey; wing-coverts 

 ashy grey with blackish centres, the median and greater coverts 

 slightly washed with rufous on their outer webs ; bastard-wing 

 feathers dusky, externally ashy fulvous, the outermost whitish 

 along the outer web ; primary-coverts dusky, with a narrow edging 

 of ashy rufoiis ; quilJs dusky, externally rufous, forming a conspi- 

 cuous wing-patch ; inner secondaries black, externally edged with 

 ashy whitish along the inner web ; upper tail-coverts ashy grey, 

 slightly fulvescent on the margins and with faint dusky centres ; 

 tail-feathers ashy brown, slightly greyer on the edges and tipped 

 with ashy brown, before which is a broad subterminal band of black; 



