of North-eastern Africa. 103 



which is no longer to be found in the Museum at Turin, re- 

 sembles Drymoeca rujiceps ; the bill is robust and much curved. 



21. Drymceca ruficeps. 



Malurus ruficeps, Riipp., Atl. tab. 36. Drymceca ruficeps, 

 Riipp., Syst. Ueb. No. 120; Bp., Consp. Av. i. p. 283 ; Haiti., 

 J.f.O. 1861, p. 110; Heugl., Syst. Ueb. No. 169; Cass.,Proc. 

 Ac. Phil. 1859, p. 37(?). 



Capite supra, cervice et supracaudalibus cinnamomeis, concolori- 

 bus ; loris, ciliis, stria superciliari, gastrseo et subalaribus 

 albidis, isabellino lavatis ; macula anteoculari obsolete pal- 

 lide fumosa; interscapulio et scapularibus migricanti-fuscis, 

 lateraliter obsolete ex rufescente fulvo-albido marginatis ; 

 tertiariis saturate nigricanti-fuscis, late et conspicue pallide 

 fulvescente-marginatis ; reniigibus et tcctricibns alse fusco- 

 fumosis, his fulvescenti marginatis, margine exteriori basin 

 versus magis magisve cinnamomeo rufescenti, illis late 

 fulvescenti-limbatis ; rectricibus saturate fumosis, infra 

 canescentibus, pogonio externo basin versus cinnamomeo 

 marginatis, | exterioribus ante apicem late album macula 

 subrotundata nigricante notatis, prima pogonio externo 

 vixtotoalbo; tibiis cinnamomeo lavatis; rostro Ipete cerino 

 corneo, culmine et apice magis spadiceo ; iride helvola ; 

 pedibus rubello flavidis. 

 Long. tot. 4i"-4|", rostr. afr. 4i"'-5"', al. 2" l"'-2" 2'", caud. 



1" 8"'-l" 9'", tars. 8"'-9"'. 



The fourth primary is the longest, the third to the seventh 

 nearly equal to it, the second 2'" and the first 9i"' shorter than 

 the tip of the wing. The tail rather broad and much gra- 

 duated, the outermost tail-feathers 7'" shorter than the middle 

 ones. 



This species inhabits Kordofan, the lower district of the 

 Abiad, Sennaar, Takah, Abyssinia, and probably also southern 

 Nubia. It lives in pairs in the bushes and dry tall grass, not 

 only along the streams, but also on the steppe and in the forest- 

 region. It is a very lively little bird, whose agreeable song and 

 Sedge- Warbler-like call-note is very often heard. It does not 

 migrate. We did not meet with this species in the coast-country 

 of Abyssinia; in the mountains it probably ascends above 

 7000 feet. 



