78 ]\rr C. F. i\I. Swynnorton on the 



roasted anrl left bel)incl. In the low veld I noticed several 

 of these Warblers between Chibabava and Madanda forests. 

 I have not yet recognised it in Northern Melsetter. 



The stomachs examined (19) contained small beetles, 

 larvse, ants, flies, and a spider, but chiefly the first. In the 

 young bird the upper mandible is blackish, the gonys and 

 the gape pale ochreous, i rides dull brown (ochreous-orange 

 in the adult), and feet dull whitish (in the adult pale pinkish 

 brown or pale pink). Tw'cnty-four of my specimens averaged 

 in the flesh 5'1 inches, varying from 4"5 to 5"6. 



1C9. CisTicoLA ERYTHROPs. Rufous - fronted Grass- 

 Warbler. 



P. I secured a male, the only occasion on which I have 

 seen this Grass-Warbler, at the pools near Chibabava on 

 December 12th, 1906. It measured 5'7 inches in the flesh ; 

 ])ill, upper mandible blackish brown, lower (except tip) 

 whitish; feet palest brown ; irides light brown ; contents of 

 stomach small beetles and other insects. This species had 

 been previously obtained by Alexander on the Zambesi. 



110. CisTicoLA suBRUFicAPiLLA. Grey - backed Grass- 

 Warbler. 



Rh., P. Unusually plentiful in the neighbourhood of 

 Chirinda during January and February of the present year, 

 both in pairs and in family-parties, evidently the result of a 

 successful breeding-season. They frequented my coffee- 

 plantation in particular, feeding along the ground or peering 

 up under the leaves of the lower branches for such insects 

 as might be hidden there. It is a common species throughout 

 Southern Melsetter, though south of the Buzi it has to give 

 precedence to C. cinerascens. Between that river and the 

 Lusitu I should judge the tw^o to be equally plentiful, but in 

 Northern Melsetter the present is undoubtedly the dominant 

 form. I have noted it along the Nyahode Valley, on the 

 lulls to the north of the Lusitu, about the township of 

 Melsetter itself, high in the Chimanimani Mts., and on 

 Mt. Pene. It does not appear to occur in the Jihu. 



