from Deelfontein, Cape Colony. 337 



As a rule, the more chestnut face of the male is well 

 marked when compared with the more cinnamon face of the 

 female; and young birds of both sexes have the lighter- 

 coloured face of the old hen bird. Only one female speci- 

 men in the Deelfontein collection has a chestnut face, and 

 possibly this may have been wrongly sexed. 



I find that the specimens from Mashona-land are not the 

 same as the birds from the Cape Colony. They are much paler 

 and more fulvesccnt above and with scarcely any grey on the 

 crown or neck, while the rufous eyebrow and face is of a 

 light vinous cinnamon ; the sides of the body, flanks, and 

 thighs, as well as the under tail-coverts, are light sandy buff, 

 not streaked as in the typical S. ocularis. This pale race, 

 specimens of which are in the Museum from the Malopo 

 and Hart Rivers, collected by J. S. Jameson, seems to 

 extend across to Great Namaqua-land, while some of the 

 Transvaal examples appear to be somewhat intermediate. 

 I have named this pale form S. malopensis \cf. Bull. B. O.C. 

 xiii. p. 80]. 



[Found all the year round and very common ; it is mostly 

 met with on the veldt, but sometimes on the kopjes. The 

 Boer name is " Tentenki," a term used for most of the small 

 Warblers.] 



81. ElTRYPTILA SUBCINNAMOMEA. 



Cisticola subtinnamomea Sharpe, ed. Layard, p. 273 (1876). 

 Euryptila subcinnamomea Sharpe, Cat. B. vii. p. 116 

 (1883); Stark, Faun. S. Afr., Birds, ii. p. 97 (1901); id. 

 Hand-1. B. iv. p. 204 (1903). 



a-c. 6 2 ad. Deelfontein, Feb. 19 & 20, 1901. 



d. 2 ad. „ March 11, 1902. Shot on a 



kopje. 

 e,f. 6 2 ad. „ Oct. 7, 1902. Iris brownish 



grey. 

 g. 6 . „ Dec. 8, 1902. With nest and 



three eggs. 

 This is a very rare species in collections, and I was glad 

 to receive the first specimens which, for want of a gun, 



