SYLVIADJE." &8Sf 



are edged with whitish-brown or reddish, with their 

 centres dusky-brown : the rest of the upper parts is 

 brownish, with small brown stripes : the tail and the 

 quills are ashy-brown ; the throat, the eyebrows, and 

 the under parts are white, with a belt of dusky points 

 on the breast : the thighs as well as the abdomen are 

 of an isabella tint, marked with a brown stripe in the 

 middle of each feather : the legs and the upper mandible 

 of the beak are brown, the under mandible white. 



Sp. 7. Ma. longicaudus. 



Sylvia longicauda. Steph. v. x. p. 756. — India. 



Sp. 8. Ma. Capensis. 



Sylvia macroura. Steph. v. x. p. 724. — Le Capolier. Le Vaill. 

 Ois. d'Afriq. in. p. 129, 130.,/: 1 1 .—Southern Africa. 



Sp. 9. Ma. subflava. 



Sylvia subflava. Steph. v. x. 61 1. — Le Citrin. Le Vaill. Ois. 

 d'Afriq. iii.pl. 127. — Africa. 



Sp. 10. Ma. Africanus. Swain. Zool. Must. pi. 170. — Sylvia 

 Africaua. Steph. v. x. 615.— Le Fluteur. Le Vaill. Ois. 

 d'Afrig. iii.pl. 1 12. — Africa. 



Sp. 1 1 . Ma. diophrys. 



MA.ferrugineofuscus subtus albidus, vertice rufo ; supra infraque 



oculos strigd nigral canda valde cuneata. 

 Rusty-brown Soft-tail, beneath whitish ; with the crown rufous; 



a black stripe above and beneath the eyes ; the tail greatly 



wedged. 

 Le double Sourcil. Le Vail. Ois. d'Afriq, vii. pi. 128. f \, 2.— 



Motacilla diophrys. Shaw, Nat. Misc. xxiii. pi. 973. — Double 



streaked Warbler. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. vii. p. 44. 



Inhabits Africa. Length six inches and a half: 

 beak rather stout, dusky black ; crown of the head 

 deep rufous : plumage above pale ferruginous brown, 

 beneath dirty-white, with a tinge of rufous on the 



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