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the body browner; thighs chestnut; under tail-coverts fulvous ; 
under wing-coverts tawny-buff ; upper mandible light orange brown, 
shaded with deep reddish brown; lower mandible straw yellow ; 
feet pale reddish yellow. Total length, 5°5 inches; culmen, 0°55 ; 
wing, 1°95; tail, 2°85; tarsus, 0°9. 
The female is smaller, measuring only 1:75 inch in the wing, and 
0°75 in the tarsus. Winter birds are much more mealy in colour. 
Fig. Smith, Il. Zool. 8. Afr. Aves, pl. 73, fig. 1, and pl. 78. 
257. CrsTicoLa sUBCINNAMOMEA. Cinnamon-breasted Fantail. 
Drymoica subcinnamomea, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 88 (1867). 
This peculiar little Warbler is so different in its colouration that 
some authors have considered it to be an Aedon. Sir Andrew Smith 
only procured one specimen of this bird, which was killed on the top 
of one of the mountains of the Kamiesberg, in Little Namaqualand. 
“ For some time before it was shot, it was beheld flitting from bush 
to bush, occasionally perching on their summits, at other times hop- 
ping rapidly to and fro among their branches, as if engaged in quest 
of insects, which were found to constitute its food.” Mr. Ortlepp 
has also procured it near Colesberg. 
Upper surface of head, neck, back, and shoulders, between oil- 
green and orange-brown; forehead tinted cinnamon-red; wing- 
feathers, light reddish-brown, with a tinge of green; the primaries 
edged narrowly towards their base with cinnamon-red ; rump ruddy ; 
tail rather long, and slightly rounded, deep brownish-red ; chin and 
neck inferiorly liver-brown, variegated with narrow white trans- 
verse bars; breast and fore part of belly cinnamon-red ; belly and 
vent coloured as the back. Length, 5’’ 8’’’; wing, 1’ 11’”’ ; tail, 
ONE (Seatelee 
Fig. Smith, Ill. Zool. 8. Afr. pl. 111, fig. 1. 
258. CIsTICOLA FASCIOLATA. Barred-breasted Fantail. 
Drymoica fasciolata, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 86. 
Sir Andrew Smith first obtained this very distinct species on open 
flat plains to the north-east of Latakoo. He says that it “inhabits 
districts covered thinly with small underwood, and in such places is 
found moving from bush to bush in search of its food, which it 
appears to take partly from the top of the bushes and partly from 
the branches, among which it passes rapidly.” 
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