58. t'UlPiOLOPHA. 401 



Muscicapa nificapillus. Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 149. 

 Sylvia ruficapilla, Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 21.S, uo. 3099. 



Adtdt mule. General colour above dull yellowish olive, the wing- 

 coverts like the back ; quills dusky brown, externally edged M'ith 

 yellowish olive, the margins to the primaries brighter yellow, the 

 outermost quills margined with greyish white ; lower back and 

 rump grey, somewhat washed with olive ; upper tail-coverts yel- 

 lowish olive ; tail-feathers light ashy brown, with yellowish edges 

 to the feathers ; head rufous, extending upon the nape, and gra- 

 dually lading off on the hind neck and mantle into the yellowish 

 olive of the back ; over the eye a broad streak of bright yellow ; in 

 front of the eye a blackish spot ; eye-ring and sides of face bright 

 yellow, Avith a slight gi'ecnish shade on the ear-coverts and a small 

 rufous shade on the upper edge of the latter : cheeks, throat, and 

 breast bright yellow, the sides of the latter greenish ; centre of the 

 body paler yellow, inclining to whitish on the lower abdomen ; 

 tliighs and under tail-coverts yellow ; sides of body and flanks 

 greyish ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and edge of wing yellow ; 

 quills ashy brown below, white along the edge of the inner web ; 

 " upper mandible dusky, lower one chrome-yellow ; tarsi and feet 

 dusky i)ale ; iris dusky" {T. L. Ay res). Total length 4 inches, cul- 

 men 0-45, wing 2-1, tail 1-0, tarsus 0-S. 



Adult fem(de. Similar to the male, but having the mantle browner, 

 and the lower back and rump clearer grey. Total length 4 inches, 

 culmeu 0-45, wing 2, tail 1'65, tarsus 0"75. 



Hah. South Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



h. (S ad. sk. Knysna. C. J. Andersson, Esq. [C.]. 



c. S ad. sk. Knvsna, Dec. 31, 18()5 (C. J. K. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Andeisson). 



J. cJ ad. sk. Port Natal, Julv 16, 1841 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



( Prof. Wahlber'f/). 



,f. Ad.sk. Lvdenhurg. * F. A. Barratt, Esq. [CI. 



; $ ad. sk M'acamac, June 30, 1874 (T. 3. H. Gurney, Esq. [P.]. 

 L. Ayres). 



8. Cryptolopha umbrivirens.* (Plate XII. fig. 2.) 



Sylvia (Fieedula) umbrovirons, Riipp. Neue Wirh. Vng. p. 112.t 

 Fict'dula uuibrovireus, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 57; Brehm, Bcis. 



Ilahesch. p. 212. 

 Svlvia umbrovirons, dray, Gen. B. i. p. 174; id. Iland-l. B. i. 



■p. 215, no. 3040. 

 Phyllopneuste umbrovirens, Bp. Consp. i. p. 290 ; Fiii.'fch, Tr. Z. S. 

 vii. p. 232. 



* Lettered on the Plate, by mistake, Culicipeta umbrivirens. 



t The bird identified by Casisiu as this .speeies from the Camma River, 

 Gaboon (Pr. Philad. Acad. 18.")9. p. 40; Hartlaub, J. 1'. O. IBfil, p. 110), is 

 doubtless one of the European Vhyfloxapi shot during its winter journey. 



