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Collected a,t Buluma , Fisherman Lake. 

 An adult female has the feathers of the throat edged 

 with shining golden green. 



Iris dark brown, bill and feet black. 



Print a my sta ce a. 



Prinia mystacea^ Riipp. N. Wirbelth. Vög. 110; — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. VII. p. 191. 



Drymoeca superciliosa , melanorhynclia and mystacea , Hartl. 

 Orn. W. Afr. pp. 55, 56 and 57. 



Hab. The whole of Africa, below the Sahara (Sharpe). 



An adult female with nest and eggs , collected near 

 Robertsport, Oct. 2Q^^. This specimen is according very 

 well with the description of Swainson , much better than 

 with that of Rüppell (Drymoeca mystacea). 



Iris reddish brown , bill black , feet pale flesh-color. 



The globular nest , upon which I caught the bird , was 

 built in the top of a low shrub , in a swamp , about 2' 

 above the water. It was very neatly woven from narrow 

 strips of grass leaves and sewed to some green leaves , the 

 edges of which had been perforated for that purpose. A 

 large leaf was sewed to the top of the nest and covered 

 it like a roof, forming a kind of portico above the aper- 

 ture, which is on the side of the nest, near the top. The 

 nest had no lining at all. It contained four beautiful eggs 

 of a pale green color and very irregularly spotted with 

 brown, especially round the thicker pole. Axis 1,55 cm., 

 width 1,05 cm. Another nest of the same species I found 

 in a Coffee-tree at Robertsport, fastened on the same way 

 between two large Coffee-leaves. 



Cisticola lateralis. 



Drymoeca lateralis, Pras. P. Z. S. 1843, p. 16; — Hartl. 

 Orn. W. Afr. p. 55. 



Cisticola lateralis , Sharpe, Cat. Birds Br. Mus. VII. p. 251. 



Notes from tlie Leyden IMuseum , Vol. "VII. 



