264 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
Sundeyvall (Ofv. K. Vet. Akad. Forh. Stockholm, 1850, p. 104), 
places it in the latter genus. Its habitat is said to be in “ Kaffraria,” 
where it was discovered by Wahlberg. The following is a trans- 
lation of the original description :— 
Adult male.—Belly unspotted, entirely yellow; back and head 
fulvous grey, narrowly spotted with blackish ; bill pale, strong, the 
culmen strongly arched as in D. curvirostris ; feet large, pale; quills 
margined with greyish-buff; tail-feathers dusky, with a broad black 
spot before the fulvous tip, the tips of the feathers sharpened, but 
soft in texture. Total length, 6 inches; wing, 2°7; tarsus, 1°15 ; 
tail, 2°5 ; bill from front, 0°55; height of latter, 0-2. 
249. CISTICOLA FULVIFRONS. Buff-fronted Fantail Warbler. 
This is really a very distinct species of Fantail Warbler, and 
apparently one of the rarest in South Africa, as we have only seen 
three specimens of it, and all from Natal. The British Museum 
contains two of these and the third was shot by Captain Shelley, 
near Durban, on the 14th of April, 1874. 
Adult female ——Head pale-rufous, inclining to ashy-brown on the 
nape; the back and scapulars ashy-brown, especially the mantle, 
the rest broadly black in the centre of the feathers, some of which 
are edged with sandy-buff; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts 
ashy grey, the latter rather more dusky with slightly paler edges ; 
wing-coverts ashy brown with black centres, the median series with 
rufous tips, the greater coverts tawny rufous with long black 
centres; quills dusky brown, externally edged with tawny rufous, 
paler towards the tips of the primaries, the inner secondaries edged 
all round ‘with ashy; quills dark brown, edged with ashy and 
broadly tipped with white, before which the brown deepens into a 
black bar, which is apparent on all but the two centre feathers, these 
having only a dusky subterminal spot, and no white tips; lores and a 
faint eyebrow buffy-white; ear-coverts very pale fulyous brown, 
clearer buff on the lower parts adjoining the cheeks, which are 
yellowish; throat and centre of abdomen, white; breast whitish, 
washed with pale yellow, the flanks slightly shaded with ashy-brown; 
thighs tawny; under wing-coverts whitish with a pale wash of fawn- 
colour; bill dusky; tarsi and feet pale; iris light reddish-brown. 
Total length, 5 inches; culmen, 0°85; wing, 2°1; tarsus, 0°95. 
The male is somewhat larger, measuring as follows :—Culmen, 0°6 ; 
wing, 2°35; tarsus, 1°(. 
