302 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
of minute insects, eggs of moths, etc. During the summer months _ 
they may frequently be seen perched on the top of a low tree or 
bush, when they utter a monotonous weeping note fora length of 
time.” 
_ Adult male.—Above brown, faintly darker in the centre of the 
feathers, the upper tail-coverts somewhat washed with fulyous; sca- 
pulars slightly shaded with ashy, the lesser and median wing-coverts 
clearly edged with ashy grey, the greater coverts and the quills 
brown washed with reddish brown, the margins of the quills rufes- 
cent, inclining to whitish; tail-feathers brown waved with dusky 
cross lines, and margined with yellowish brown, without any dark _ 
subterminal bars to the feathers; head and nape uniform rufous ; 
lores buff extending backwards over the eye and forming a faint 
eyebrow ; sides of face grey shaded with fulvous on the upper and 
hinder margin of the ear-coverts ; entire under-surface of body ashy 
grey, whitish on the chin and malar line; centre of abdomen and 
vent also whitish, the under tail-coverts very pale yellowish ; under 
wing-coverts buffy whitish slightly washed with fulvous near the edge 
of the wing, the lower series ashy brown like the lower surface of 
the quills, which are edged with light rufous along the inner web; 
upper mandible brown, the lower flesh-colour ; legs flesh-colour ; 
iris light brown. Total length, 4°3 inches; culmen, 0°45; wings, 
1:9; tail, 1°85; tarsus, 0°75. 
Adult female.—Similar to the male, but rather smaller, and not so 
brightly coloured. Total length, 3°5 inches; culmen, 0°4; wing, 
1:7; tail, 1°5; tarsus, 0°75. 
Fig. Hartlaub, Ibis 1863, pl. vin, fig. 1. 
288. PINDALUS RUFICAPILLUS. Yellow-browed Bush-Warbler. 
Muscicapa ruficapillus, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 149. 
We have received this rare species from Mr. Cairncross at Swel- 
lendam, and from Mr. Atmore at Traka. The late Mr. Andersson 
also procured it at the Knysna. It was originally described from 
specimens procured by Wahlberg in “ Lower Caffraria,” and the . 
editor’s collection contained one example shot by the last-named 
traveller in Natal: this is now in the national collection. Here Mr. 
Ayres also obtained it, and he observes concerning it :— Rare in 
this locality ; frequents the bush and thick creepers. When in search 
of food is exceedingly active, flitting and hopping from twig to twig 
