Zomba District of Nyasaland. 233 



(Caconda) = Cisticola meridionalis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vii. 

 p. 24.3 (1883) (Chiuchonxo). 



3. Cistiala orientalis, Sharpe, t. c. p. 24;5 (Paugani R.). 



In attempting a classification of the birds of Africa I 

 should recognize a subfamily Cisticolince , to include the 

 genera in the following order : — 



a. Bill longer and more slender &c 1, Orthotomus ; 



2. Rectirostrum ; 3. Calamonastes. 



b. Bill shorter and stouter &c. 

 a'. Tail-feathers ordinary. 



a". Tail of 10 feathers 4. Burnesia ; 



5. Prima ; 6. Debroioskia (not known to me), 

 6". Tail of 12 feathers. 



a'". Tail-feathers more slender &c 7. Spiloptila. 



b'". Tail-feathers much broader. 



a*. Smaller; wing less than 2'8 inches; 

 tail-feathers generally with a dark 



subterminal bar 8. Cisticola. 



b^. Larger ; wing not less than 2"8 inches ; 

 tail with pale ends and no dark sub- 

 terminal bar. 

 a*. Upper parts uniform. 



a^. General plumage rufous brown ; 



with a black moustachlal band . . 9. Melocichla. 

 6'. General plumage brownish black ; 

 with no black moustachial band 

 and with broad white ends to the 



tail-feathers 10. Pinurornis. 



i'. Crown and mantle mottled ; rump 



and upper tail-coverts bright rufous. 11. Chcetops. 

 b'. Tail wedge-shaped, the feathers stiffened with 

 spiny shafts and loose webs ; tail of 10 



feathers &c 12, Sphe7U£acus ; 



13. Drwmceocercus. 



21. Eremomela scotops. 



Eremomela scotops, Sundev. ; Shelley, Ibis, 1893, p. 16 ; 

 1894, p. 13. 



Zomba. One specimen. 



22. CiNNYRlS FALKENSTKINI. 



Cinnyris fulkensteini, Reichen.; Shelley, Ibis, 1893, p. 16, 

 1894, p. 13 ; Reichen. Vog. Deutsch-Ost-Afr. p. 212. 

 Zomba. One full-plumaged male. 



