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Nephelicola major Rbts. {l.c. p. 263). Albany District? 
N. mystica Rbts. {Journ, S. Afr. Orn. Un. x. 106, 1914). Pretoria. 
N, immaculata (Hartl.). Cradock. 
N. ayresi (Hartl.). Natal. 
N. minuta Gunning {Ann. Transvaal Mus. i. 174, 1909). Woodbush. 
{N. ayresi and N. minuta may prove to be synonymous with N. immaculata.) 
Tachydyta kalahariae (Og. -Grant) {Bull. Brit. Orn. Cl. xxv. 121, 1910). In 
literature referred to also as Cisticola lavendulae, which was described from 
. Socotra Island. Dry, open, grass- veld country, or open patches of veld 
in the “bush -veld.” 
Neocisticola pusilla (Gunning and Roberts, Ann. Transvaal MuL iii. 118, 1911). 
This has been recorded as Cisticola rufa by W. L. Sclater {This, 1912, p. 227) 
from Lower Zambesi; but according to Sclater and Mackworth-Praed {This, 
1918, p. 656) “C. rufa is found in West Africa from the Welle River to 
the Cameroons, and perhaps Angola, is a reddish bird as the name implies, 
and appears to be always without striping on the back.” On the previous 
page they refer records from other parts of Africa to Cisticola hrachyptera 
Sharpe and state that “winter birds show distinct but not very heavy 
stripes on the back, the summer birds are quite plain.” We have a speci- 
men from Nyasaland, presented by C. F. Belcher, Esq., which agrees 
fairly well with C. hrachyptera, but the two specimens from Lower Zambesi, 
upon which C. pusilla was teased, are decidedly redder, while the tail 
feathers are broader and the outermost primary is longer, so that I cannot 
see that the Nyasaland and the coastal specimens are referable to the same 
species, though belonging no doubt to the same genus. The Nyasaland 
specimen was taken in January, the Boror specimen in May and the Beira 
specimen in September, and all are unstriped above. 
Drymodyta {Drymodyta) tinniens (Licht.). Cape to Zoutpansberg. 
D. {Drymodytops) luguhris (Riipp.). Tropical low country. 
D. {Threnodyta) suhruficapilla (A. Smith). Southern Cape Districts. 
D. {Threnodyta) lais (Hartlaub). Kaffraria and Drakensberg. 
D. {Threnodyta) monticolaWots. {Ann. Transvaal Mus. iv. 242, 1913). Central 
Transvaal. 
D. {Threnodyta) rufilata (Hartl.). Dry western kopjes. 
D. {Threnody tops) chiniana (A. Smith). Bushveld. 
D. {Pseudhemipteryx) natalensis (A. Smith). Tropical Africa. C. strangei (Fras.) 
is a synonym. 
D. {Threnetes) erythrops (Hartl.). Streams and marshes in tropical low country. 
D. {Threnetes) semitorques (Heugl.). Eastern mountainous country within the 
Tropics. C. cinerascens Heuglin is a synonym of this species, a conclusion 
formed by both Heuglin and Reichenow and with which I agree after 
consulting the original descriptions and other literature. 
D. {Rhathymodyta) aherrans aberrans (A. Smith). Subtropical area from Natal 
to Transvaal. C. pretoriae (Haagner, Ann. Transvaal Mus. i. 230, 1909) 
is based upon a soot-stained example from the neighbourhood of the city, 
others from the neighbourhood and farther north not differing from typical 
specimens from the coast of Natal. 
D. {Rhathymodyta) aherrans minor Rbts. {Ann. Transvaal Mus. iii. 237, 1913). 
Pondoland and Kaffraria. 
Dryodromas fulvicapilla fulvicapilla (Vieillot). Kaffraria to Barberton. 
D. fulvicapilla silherhaueri Rbts. {Ann. Transvaal Mus. vi. 117, 1919). Groot 
Drakenstein Mts. 
D. ruficapilla (A. Smith). Orange River and bushveld generally. Owing to 
authors having confused this species with C. aherrans, it has received 
