310 Mr. W. L. Sclater on Birds collected 



species since the Central Cape Colony trip. It is an active 

 little bird, usually found in pairs ; it frequents the bushes 

 everywhere, and spends much of its time searching for insects. 

 It has a jerky flight and is very Wren-like in habits. 



The soft parts are : — Irides grey-brown ; bill black, base 

 lilac ; legs and toes brownish flesh-coloured.] 



272. ClSTICOLA FULVICAPILLA. 



CC. Plettenberg Bay, Mch. (2) ; N. Illovo, Nov. (1). 



This species is apparently confined to the southern part of 

 Cape Colony and the coast lands of Natal. The British 

 Museum contains examples from Swellendam, George, 

 Knysna, King William^s Town (Jan., Oct.), and Pinetown 

 near Durban (Jan., Mch., May, June, July, and Oct.). 



The specimens with buflty-whitish under parts, mentioned 

 by Sharpe as being this species in winter dress and from the 

 Transvaal, should be referred, in my opinion, to C. cinnamo- 

 meiceps recently described by llaagner. 



[This little Grass- Warbler was noted from the Knysna 

 district, where it was decidedly scarce, and Natal. It inhabits 

 the long grass and vegetation in the vleis and bordering 

 woods, and is usually observed in pairs. Its call is " weep 

 weep," constantly repeated ; in other respects and appearance 

 it much resembles C. suhruficapilla. 



The soft parts are : — Irides pale amber-coloured ; bill, 

 upper mandible horn-brown, lower much paler ; legs and 

 toes palish brown.] 



CiSTICOLA CINNAMOMEICEPS. 



llaagner, Annals Transvaal Mus. i. p. 197 (Jan. 1909). 



Tv. Klein Letaba, July, Aug., Sept. (3) ; Legogot, Apl, 

 May (2) ; P. Coguno, Aug. (2). 



Tliese little Grass- Warblers closely resemble C.fulvicapilla, 

 with which, indeed, they have been hitherto confounded. 

 The series of specimens of both forms now in tiie British 

 Museum shew clearly that C. cinnamomeiceps cannot be the 

 winter dress of C. fulvicapilla, as was supposed by Sharpe, 

 but is its representative in the Transvaal and Rhodesia. 



In the British Museum series there are skins from 

 Potchcfstroom (Jan., .hily), and Ivuslcnburg (Feb., Apl., 



