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Heuglin, which would include our species E. scotops, with two conspicuous 
rictal bristles, the typical Eremomela having none; in Tricholais the tail 
is also long, the outstretched toes not reaching to the tip and the bill is 
black. In Eremomela usticollis Sundevall two conspicuous rictal bristles 
are present, but the tail is short, the outstretched toes reaching beyond the 
tip, and the bill is brown. Having regard to these differences and the fact 
that these three species are found side by side, I think it is advisable to 
give the last one a new generic name, Magalilais, genotype E. usticollis 
Sundevall. Baeoscelis Heine, genotype B. hadiceps, appears to me to be 
a synonym of Eremomela. E. baumgarti Reichenow, from Damaraland, is 
a synonym of Magalilais usticollis. E. flaviventris saturatior Og.-Grant 
{Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl. xxv. 120, 1910) from the Karroo districts is a very 
distinct subspecies, if not indeed a species, and must be added to our list. 
Reichenow has lumped together under Apalis a number of genera which 
have no close relationship. Stark and Sclater have also placed Stenostira 
scita in this genus, an error which is not easily explained having regard 
to the wide difference between the genera ; it is correctly placed under the 
Muscicapidae by Reichenow. The characters given by Sharpe {Cat. B. Brit. 
Mus. VII. 136, 1883) are sufficient to distinguish Euprinodes from Apalis \ 
but Chlorodyta, genotype C. flavida, appears to me also to be separable, 
Euprinodes having the tips of the tail feathers and the whole of the outer 
pair white as in Apalis, Chlorodyta having them yellowish. Spiloptila” 
ocularia (A. Smith) cannot be assigned to either Apalis or Spiloptila, and 
\ I propose therefore to place it in a new genus, Priniops, differing from 
Spiloptila in colour of plumage, bill, legs and feet, proportionately longer 
tail and tarsus and larger size; it differs from all South African warblers 
in its very long and narrow tail feathers. With regard to species of the 
preceding genera, the following have been recorded or described from within 
our limits : 
Apalis claudei W. L. Sclater {Bull. B.O.C. xxviii. 15, 1911). 
A. ruddi W. L. Sclater {idem). 
A. chirindensis Shelley {B^lll. B.O.C. xvi. 126, 1906). 
A. rhodesiae Gunning and Roberts {Ann. Transvaal Mus. in. 115, 1911). 
A. thoracica venusta G. and R. {idem, p. 116). 
A. thoracica darglensis G. and R. {idem, p. 117). 
A. thoracica spelonkensis G. and R. {idem, p. 116). 
A. thoracica flaviventris G. and R. {idem, p. 117). 
A. thoracica griseiceps Rchw. (cf. Chubb, Ann. Durban Mus. i. 80, 1914). 
Apalis ruddi W. L. Sclater, above mentioned, may have to be removed 
to another genus. Three species of Chlorodyta occur within our limits, 
C. flavida in the north-west, C. neglecta in the north-east and C. florisuga 
in the south-east, 
Camaroptera hrevicauda = C. griseoviridis. 
C. griseoviridis noomei Gunning and Roberts {Ann. Transvaal Mus. in. 117, 
1911) = C. griseoviridis sundevalli Sharpe (cf. Noome, Journ. S. Afr. Orn. 
Un. VIII. 18, 1912). 
Sylvietta flecki Reichenow does not appear to be more than a doubtful 
subspecies of S. rufescens. S. rufescens ochrocara Oberholser {Smiths. 
Misc. Coll. XLVii. 1555, 1907) is said by Sclater and Mackworth-Praed 
{Ibis, 1918, pp. 666-672) to be a synonym of S. rufescens rufescens) at the 
