DRYOSCOPUS PRINGLIL 353 
Dryoscopus cubla: Cape Colony—Knysna (Andersson and 
C. Grant), Port Elizabeth (Cutler), Elands Post (Atmore) ; 
Natal—Durban (Shelley), Illovo (C. Grant), Drakensberg 
(Butler); Transvaal—Rustenburg (Lucas), Crocodile River, 
(Oates), Barberton (Pease), Swaziland (Buckley), Klein 
Letaba, Woodbush and Legogot (C. Grant). 
Dryoscopus cubla hamatus : Angola—Humbe (Anchieta) ; 
German South-West Africa—Elephant Vlei (Andersson) ; 
S. Rhodesia—Umvyuli and Hunyani rivers (Jameson), Bula- 
wayo (Selous), Chiquaqua (Sowerby), Salisbury (Marshall) ; 
N.-H. Rhodesia—Loangwa River (Neave); Portuguese EH. 
Africa—Zumbo (Alexander), Tete (Livingstone), Beira (C. 
Grant), Cheringoma (Cavendish), Rovuma River (Thomson) ; 
Nyasaland—Zomba, Milanji and Nyika plateau (Whyte), 
Angoniland (Sharpe); German H. Africa—Dar-es-Salaam 
(Moir), Pangani and Usambara (Kirk), Kilimanjaro (Johnston 
and Percival); British Hast Africa—Malinde and Lamu 
(Kirk), Takaungu (Percival), Nairobi and Msara (Delamere). 
Dryoscopus pringlii. 
Dryoscopus pringlii, Jackson, Bull. B. O. C. iii. p. 3 (1893) between Tsavo 
and Kufumika; id. Ibis, 1901, p. 88; Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 744 
(1896) ; Reichen. Vog, Afr. ii. p. 597 (1903) ; Erlanger, J. f. O. 1905, 
p. 699 South Somaliland. 
Adult male. Similar to D. cubla, but very much smaller, and having the 
pale edges to the scapulars, coverts and secondaries broader and more 
conspicuous and washed with pale brown; the edges of the feathers of the 
lower mantle are also pale brown. ‘The puff-feathers are pure white at 
the base, the tips pale grey and frequently stained. Below white washed with 
pale browny grey across the breast and along the flanks. Iris crimson, bill 
black, pale horny at the base of the lower mandible ; feet horn blue. Length 
5:78 inches, wing 2°75, tail 2°35, culmen 0°60, tarsus 0:70. Tsavo-Kufumika 
road, 3, type, 5. 4. 92 (Jackson). 
Female. Is very different looking ; it has the whole of the upper parts light 
mouse brown with white edgings to the coverts and inner secondaries ; the 
lores and a ring round the eye are whitish and the ear-coverts like the upper 
