266 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
We have examined the typical specimen of Cisticola elegans of — 
Messrs. Hartlaub and Finsch, which we find to be only the female of 
C. tinniens. 
The following is a description of this identical specimen kindly 
lent to us by the Bremen Museum, 
Head and nape entirely rufous, with the exception of the centre 
of the crown, which is obscured by broad streaks of dull black ; 
back black, slightly streaked with pale ashy buff, some of the 
feathers edged with this colour; the wing-coverts also black, broadly 
edged with ashy fulvous slightly inclining to rufous; quills brown, 
broadly margined with dull rufous, so that the external aspect of 
the wing is of this colour, the inner secondaries black like the back, 
and margined in the same way with fulyous; lower back and upper 
tail-coverts black, with very broad margins of sandy or rufous buff ; 
tail-feathers brown in the centre broadly margined with dull rufous, 
all but the two centre feathers having a broad bar of blackish before 
a pale fulvescent tip, the outermost edged with pale fulvous ex- 
ternally ; lores and a very distinct eyebrow pale rufous buff; sides 
of face light fulvous, with a few whitish streaks on the ear-coverts, 
the hinder margin of which incline to rufous like the sides of the 
_ neck; throat and under parts generally fulvescent as also the cheeks, 
on the latter being a few indications of dusky tips to the feathers ; 
the chest and sides of the body darker and more ashy fulvous, the 
sides of the breast and flanks very broadly streaked with black, 
extremely pronounced on the flanks; under tail-coverts uniform 
ashy fulyous; thighs orange rufous; under wing-coverts pale tawny 
buff; “bill black, the lower mandible reddish, but black at the 
extremity ; legs pale flesh-colour; iris brown” (Andersson). Total 
length, 5 inches ; cuJmen, 0°45; wing, 1:95; tail, 2°15; tarsus, 0°8. 
The male is a little larger, and measures: total length, 5:4 inches ; 
wing, 2°15; tail, 2°55; tarsus, 0°85. 
Fig. Smith, Ill. Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pl. 73, fig. 2. 
251. CisTICcOLA SUBRUFICAPILLA. Small Grey-backed Fantail. 
Drymoica subruficapilla, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 91. 
This Warbler may be distinguished by its grey back and rufous 
head, both distinctly streaked with black down the centre of the 
feathers ; the sides of the body are grey. 
Its range is very restricted, as it seems to be confined to the 
