106 Dr. von Heuglin on the Malurinse 



bird described as a somewhat faded youug state of D. ruficeps, 

 if the diflference in the proportion of the toes were not observed ; 

 for the outer toe is shorter than the inner one^ while in the 

 other species the contrary proportion occurs. Moreover the 

 vertex and nape are not bright ferruginous, but light greyish- 

 brown, with narrow, not clearly defined, but yet tolerably distinct 

 smoky-brown streaks on the shafts ; the upper tail-coverts and 

 margins of the rectrices are not bright ferruginous, but light 

 greyish-brown. 



Described from a specimen killed on the 6th February in the 

 country of the Kidj negroes, on the Bahr el Djebel. 



To a form very similar to this, probably still undescribed, 

 and distinguished by the peculiar striation of the breast, in the 

 museums of Stuttgart and Frankfort, I give the name of 



Drymceca virgata. Pileo et nucha fusco rufescentibus, 

 obsolete fusco striolatis ; interscapulio, scapularibus, tergo 

 et tectricibus alse secundi ordinis umbrino canescentibus, 

 conspicue nigricanti-fusco striatis; uropygio et supra- 

 caudalibus eodem colore dilute uiaculatis ; tectricibus alse 

 majoribus et tertiariis fumoso nigricantibus, conspicue et 

 late pallide rufescenti-griseo marginatis ; remigibus satu- 

 rate fumosis, pogonio externo rufescenti marginatis, interno 

 basin versus hepatico fulvo limbatis; rectricibus saturate 

 fumosis, conspicue rufescente lavatis, pallidius limbatis, ^ 

 extimis ante apicem albidum, cano lavatum, macula nigri- 

 cante notatis ; loris, genis et gastrteo sordide albidis, 

 lateribus pectoris et hypochondriis sordide umbrino caues- 

 cente lavatis, genis et colh lateribus obsolete rufescente 

 variis, pectore fuscescente striolato ; tibialibus rubiginosis ; 

 subalaribus albidis, fulvo tinctis ; rostro, ut videtur, cerino 

 corneo, culmine magis fusco ; pedibus et unguibus tlavidis. 

 Long. tot. circa 4|", rostr. a fr. 4i"', al. 2", caud. 2" 2'", 



tars. 7'". 



The outer toe is somewhat longer than the inner one. In the 

 museum at Stuttgart as D. levaillanti, from the Cape, at Frank- 

 fort from West Africa. 



23. Drym(eca eximia, Heugl. 



(Plate III. fig. 1.) 

 Habitu Cisticolce schoenicola, at cauda angustiore, longiore, 

 magis graduata, coloribus ex toto Isetioribus ; pileo, inter- 



