270 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
South Africa. It is very closely allied to C. subruficapilla, but has 
the head uniform pale tawny rufous, and the flanks are not grey as 
in the last-named bird. Mr. Andersson’s examples were obtained 
by him at Otjimbinque and near ‘Onani’s Mouth’ on the Swakop | 
River, as well as in Ondonga. We also identify a specimen procured 
by Dr. Kirk at Tete in the Zambesi district as belonging to the 
present species. The following description is that of a female bird 
(sex ascertained by Mr. Andersson by dissection), but we have not 
yet come across an authentic male. 
Adult female-——General colour above fulvous brown, almost 
tawny, with indistinct mesial streaks of darker brown on the back 
and scapulars, the upper tail-coverts and rump uniform; crown 
uniform tawny rufous, shading off into the brown of the back ; outer 
scapulars and least wing-coyerts shaded with grey, the centres of 
the feathers dark brown, the greater series and primary-coverts 
dark brown, broadly edged with fulvous; quills dark brown, exter- 
nally margined with rufous, the inner secondaries edged all round 
with fulvous; tail rufous brown, pale fulvous at the tip, with a sub- 
terminal bar of black, very distinct on all excepting the two centre 
feathers, where it is only obscurely indicated; lores and a faint 
line above the eye, yellowish white; round the eye a circlet of buff ; 
cheeks and sides of face yellowish white, the ear-coverts marked 
with brown, especially on the hinder margin ; under surface of body 
pale tawny yellow, deeper on the flanks, the sides of the upper 
breast washed with ashy brown ; the throat and centre of the belly 
whitish; thighs bright tawny ; under wing-coverts pale tawny, the 
lower series ashy-brown at tip, the lower surface of the quills brown, 
margined with rufous along the inner web; bill (in skin) horn 
brown, the lower mandible yellowish ; feet deep yellow in skin. Total 
length, 4:7 inches ; culmen, 0°55; wing, 2:1 ; tail, 2°15; tarsus, 0°85. 
255, CIsTICOLA LAIS. Rufous-flanked Fantail Warbler. 
This little species is very closely allied to C. subrujicapilla, but is 
apparently specifically distinct from the last named bird: from 
which it differs in not having the grey back, so that the rufous head 
never appears in strong contrast. Its principal difference, however, 
consists in the tawny flanks, these being greyish-brown in C. sub- 
ruficapilla. We have seen several specimens from Natal, all of 
them being similarly coloured ; it is probably confined to this part 
