SYLVIADJE. 



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. longicciudus, 



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. Hup. 129, 130./ 11.— Southern Africa. 



Sp. 9. Ma. subflava. 



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

 d'/lfriq, iii. 127.— -Africa. 



Sp. 10. Ma. Africanus. Svoain. Zool. Illust. pi. 170, — Sylvia 

 Africana. Steph, v. x. 615. — Le Fluteur, Le VailL Ois. 

 d' Afrig. iii. pi. 112.-^ AMc'd. 



Sp. 1 1 . Ma. diophrys. 



Ma. Jerrugineo-^uscus subtus alhidus, vertice rufo ; stqna itifraque 



oculos strigd 7iigra; caudd 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'AJriq. yix. pL 128. y. 1, 2.~ 

 Motacilla diophrys. Shaw, Nat. Misc. xxiii. pL 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 



V. XIII, p. II, 15 



