of North-eastern Africa. 99 



yellow colour of the throat, breast, and abdomen. The broad, 

 blackish spots at the tips of the rectrices are produced down- 

 wards along the shaft, somewhat like an arrow-head. 



We found this species only in the environs of Adowa, in Abys- 

 sinia, upon moist places overgrown with bushes and rushes, at 

 an elevation of from 5000 to 7000 feet above the sea. It climbs 

 about like a Sedge- Warbler upon the stalks, or balances itself 

 whilst singing or calling upon their tips. In the nestling- 

 plumage the blackish striation on the vertex and mantle is more 

 indistinct, and the crissum more whitish. The breeding-time 

 seems to be in tlie month of November. At the beginning of 

 December we found young birds of this species, scarcely able 

 to fly, upon Cy/)en«-bushes on the margin of a large marsh. 



17. Drymceca robusta. 



Drymceca robusta, Riipp. (nee Blyth), Syst. Ueb. No. 123, and 

 tab. 13 ; Heugl., Syst. Ueb. No. 172 ; Lefebv., Abyss. Ois. p. 89; 

 Bp., Consp. Av. p. 283. 



Major; capite supra cerviceque tota Isete et saturate umbrino rufis, 

 hac pallidiore, illius plumis medio late fusco nigricanti stri- 

 atis ; macula anteoculari obsoleta fumosa ; loris, ciliis, stri- 

 aque lata superciliari fulvescenti-albidis ; interscapulio, 

 tergo, viropygioet supracaudalibus, scapularibus et tectricibus 

 alse minoribus fusco uigricantibus conspicue pallide fulvo-, 

 tectricibus alse minoribus et uropygii plumis magis fulvo- 

 canescenti-marginatis; tertiariis nigricantibus, extus stricte 

 et late rufescenti-, intus paulo angustius fulvescenti-albido 

 mai-giuatis ; tectricibus alse majoribus fusco-nigricantibus, 

 albido marginatis, albediue marginali plus minusve ru- 

 fescenti-lavata ; remigibus fumosis, basin versus extus 

 rufescenti-, intus magis hepatico-fulvescenti-marginatis ; 

 rectricibus latis, truncatis, supra fumosis, medianis magis 

 nigricantibus, infra canescentibus, rufescente marginatis, 

 \ medianis exceptis ante apicem fulvescenti-albidum late 

 nigricante notatis; genis et gastrseo fulvescenti-albidis, 

 colli lateribus et hypochondriis magis ochi-aceo lavatis; 

 crisso, subcaudalibus et tibialibus Isetius ex rufescente fulvo- 

 ochraceis; pectoris lateribus plus minusve cano lavatis; 

 rostro fusco-corneo, dimidio basali mandibulse flavido ; iride 

 helvola, pedibus rubellis. 

 Long. tot. 6i"-6L", rostr. a fr. .54"'-6"', ab ang. or. 9"', al. 



2" 101'", caud. 2" 5"', tars. 12"'-13"'. 



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