132 Dr. von Heuglin on the Malarinps 



and less graduated tail, somewhat longer third primary, and 

 quite different coloration. In the female the frontal region only 

 IS tinged with ferruginous. In four specimens lying before me, 

 the upper surface is always quite spotless, the white tips of the 

 five outer rectrices not so large as in that species ; the dark 

 mark behind them, on the contrary, is more dilated. The outer 

 toe is longer than the inner one. 



We killed this species in October, in the Bogos country, and 

 have also examined some specimens from Sennaar which are 

 quite similarly marked. 



In the Frankfort Museum there is an exactly similar bird, 

 under the name of " Dnjinceca rvficeps,]v\v." ; it was obtained 

 by Dr. Riippell in Abyssinia, and is somewhat smaller; the 

 bill is light-coloured, slighter, and straighter, the tail more gra- 

 duated, and the flanks are duller dingy-brownish-grey. Bill 

 4-8'", wing I" 111'", tail nearly 1" 6'", tars. 9^"'. 



27. Drymceca cisticola. 



Sylvia cisticola, Temm. Salicaria cisticola, Keys. & Bias. 

 Dnj7noeca cisticola, Gray. Cisticola schcenicola, Bp., Consp. Av. 

 i.p.28G; Heugl., Syst. Ueb. No. 163; Id., Faun. Both. Meer. 

 No. 60; Antinori, Cat. p. 37. Sylvia textrix, Descr. deTEgypte, 

 V. tab. 4 (?). Prinia cursitans, Frankl. (?) ; Cass., Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sc. Philad. 1856, p. 3 ; Hartl., Orn. Westafr. No. 754. 



Supra fuliginoso nigricans, plumis omnibus lateraliter fulvo-uiar- 

 ginatis,marginibus plus minusve rufescente lavatis; uropygio 

 et supracaudalibus purius rufcscenti-fulvis, obsolete fuaioso 

 striatis; loris, superciliis, ciliis, gastrseo et subalaribus albi- 

 dis, lateribus corporis fulvo lavatis ; tibialibus rufescenti- 

 bus; remigibus fumosis, extus rufescenti-fulvo-, intus basin 

 versus fulvo- albicante marginatis; rectricibus fuliginoso- 

 atris, infra cauescentibus, fulvo marginatis, ante apicem 

 album macula subrotundata nigrieante oruatis, delude pal- 

 lidioribus, dimidio basali obscurioribus ; rcctrice extima 

 pogonio externo stricte albido marginata ; rostro cerino- 

 flavicante; pedibus magis rubellis ; iride helvola. 

 Long. tot. 4" 3"'-4" 5'", rostr. a fr. 4"'-4i"', al. 1" 10'"- 



1" llf", tars. 8"'-9"', caud. 1" 5"'-l" 6'". 



The outer and inner toes of nearly equal length. The fourth 

 primary is usually the longest, the tliird and fifth scarcely shorter, 



