284 TIMELllD^. 



Drvmoica procerula, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. Stuckh. 



iS-JO, p. 104. 

 Drvmoica obscm-a, Sundev. t. e. p. 103 ; Grai/, Ha?id-l. B. i. p. 199, 



no. 2768 (1869). 

 Drymoeca levaillantii, SiricM. i^- Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 64 (nee 



Smith). 

 Dmuoica cantans, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 22 (1856) ; Grm/, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 199, no. 2790 (1869). 

 PDrymoica lugubris, Heugl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 194. 

 Cisticola procera, Peters, J.f. O. 1868, p. 132; Sharps, ed. Layard 



B. S. Afr. p. 275 (1876). 

 DrymcEca subruficapilla, Layard, Ibis, 1868, p. 244; Sharpe, Cat. 



Afr. B. p. 30 (1871) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. SI 



(1872) ; id. Ibis, 1873, p. 254; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 71. 

 Drymoeca virgata, Heuyl. Ibis, 1869, p. 106. 

 Drymoica prucera, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 200, no. 2820 (1869). 

 Drymoica virgata, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 200, no. 2797 (1869). 

 Drymoeca cantans, Heuyl. Ibis, 1869, p. 96. 

 Drymoeca striolata, Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 262 (1869), iv. 



App. p. Ixxiv (1871). 

 Cisticola cantans, Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 252 (1869). 

 Gramiuicola levaillantii, Blanf. Geol. Sf Zool. Abyss, p. 375 (1870, 



tied Smith). 

 Drymoeca levaillantii, Finsch, Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 322 (1870, ex 



Blanf. ut supra). 

 Drymoica procera, Finsch Sf Hartl. Voy. Osf.afr. -p. 233 (1870). 

 Drymoica lais, iid. t. c. p. 237 (1870) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 200, 



no. 2800 (1869, ex F. c^ H. MSS.). 

 Drymoica rufilata, Hartl. in Finsch ^ Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 238 



(1870) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 200, no. 2801 (1869, ex F. ^ H. 



MSS.) ; Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 87 (1872). 

 Cisticola levaillanti (wee Smith), Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iv. App. 



p. Ixxiii (1871, ex Blanf. ut supra). 

 Drjnnoeca cliiuiana, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 30 (1871) ; Ayres, Ibis, 



1871, p. 151; Gurney, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 86 (1872); 



Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 373 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1876, p. 425. 

 Drymoeca isodactyla (nee Peters), Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 712; id. 



ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 269 (1876). 

 Cisticola subruflcapiLla, Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 266 (1876). 

 Ci.sticola lais, Sharpe, t. e. p. 270 (1876). 

 Cisticola obscura, Sharpe, t. e. p. 275(1876). 

 Cisticola cbiuiana, Sharp)e, t. e. p. 268 (1877); Ayres, Ibis, 1878, 



p. 290, 1880, p. 101 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 253. 

 Cisticola rufilata, Sharpe, t. c. p. 269 (1876). 

 Drymoica bolubi, Von Pelz. in Holub, Beitr. Orn. Sudafr. p. 76, pi. i. 



(1882). 

 Cisticola isodactyla, Sharpie (nee Peters), t. e. p. 269 (1876). 

 Drymoeca lais, Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 55 (1882). 



Adult male. Above ashy brown, all the feathers of the back 

 streaked down the centre with black ; the head rufous with less 

 distinct mesial streaks of black, becoming still more obscure on the 

 hind neck, where the rufoiis shades off into the ashy grey of the 

 back : wing-coverts dark brown, margined with the same ashy grey 

 as the back, the greater series faintly washed with rufous ; quills 

 dull brown, externally edged with rufous, the inner secondaries 



