NOVITATBS ZOOLOOIOAE XXVII. 1920. 467 



" Iris neutral orange. Feet light brown, brown-ochre, brown flesh-colour. 

 Bill black, lower pale " (Ansorge). 



Hab. Benguella: Quando River, 20.xii.l904 (W. J. Ansorge); Cuan- 

 hangamma River, 17. ix. 1904 (W. J. Ansorge) ; Bulu-Bulu, in Bihe, 4.x. 1904 ; 

 Bailundu, 18.viii.l901. 0. H. Pemberton. AU these locahties are inland (east) 

 of the town of BengueUa. 



t 599. Cisticola simplicissima Neum. = Cisticola angusticavda Rchw. 



Cisticola angusticavda Reiohenow, Journ. f. Om. 1891. pp. 69, 163 (Gonda, Tabora). 

 Cisticola simplicissima Neumann, J5mK. B.O. Club, xxiii. p. 47 (1908 — " Benguella "). 



Type : ^, Kukema River, Bihe, BengueUa, S.xii. 1904. W. J. Ansorge leg. 

 No. 870. 



The type is not fully adult. There can be no doubt that it is the same species 

 as angusticauda, which extends westwards to Benguella. I do not understand 

 why Neumann did not aUude to angusticavda, while comparing his supposed new 

 species with C. rufa. G. mudleri Alex. (1899) appears to be also augusticauda ! 



t 600. Cisticola hypoxantha Hartl. = Cisticola rufa (? a subsp.). 



Drymmca rufa Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1843. p. 17 (" River Quorra, opposite Iddah "). 

 Cisticola hypoxantha Hartlaub, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880. p. 624 (" Magungo, December 11." 



Errore: The specimen is labelled "Magungo, 19.11.1879," and the eleventh month is 



November). 



Type: (J juv., Magungo, 19. xi. 1879. Emin Pasha leg. No. 122. 



There is no doubt that Hartlaub's hypoxantha is the young bird of C. rufa, 

 which has, like so many Cisticolae, a yellow underside. It is, however, possible 

 that G. rufa can be subdivided into several subspecies, but even if the East 

 African form is separated I believe " hypoxantha " would remain a synonym 

 of rufa. 



f 601. Phyllergates * cinereicollis Sharpe = Phyllergates cucullatus cucullatus. 



Orfhotomus cViCuUatus Temminck, PI. Col. 599. fig. 2 (1836 — Java, Sumatra). 

 Phyllergates cinereicollis Sharpe, /6m, 1888, p. 479 (Kina Balu, N.E. Borneo). 



Type: ^ ad., Kina Balu, 4,000 feet, 10. ii. 1888. John Whitehead leg. 

 No. 2,101. 



In NoviTATES ZooLOGiCAE, iv. pp. 517, 518, I said that most likely 

 cinereicollis would not be separable from cucullatus. This is indeed the case — 

 Bornean and Javan, as weU as Sumatran specimens {sumatranus Salvad.), are 

 absolutely inseparable, and so are those from the Malay Peninsula. Stresemann 

 (NoviTATES ZooLOGiCAE, xix. 1912, pp. 341, 342) has also come to this conclusion. 

 Stresemann also points out that my statement, that the outer rectrices in Javan, 

 Malaccan, and Bornean specimens had no white at all, was not quite correct ; 

 this is true, at the same time a (more or less narrow) white outer edge to the 

 lateral rectrices is very rare and only seen in our series in a few skins from the 

 Malay Peninsula, and one from Java, so that the absence or diminished extent 



* Though, for the sake of convenience, I follow Sharpe' s^Hand-list in this List, in reversed order, 

 I cannot do so in all cases. In this case, for example, I have to deviate : Phyllergates is closely 

 allied to Orthotomus, while Sharpe placed 56 genera between them. 



