Annals op the Transvaal Museum. 
197 
DESCRIPTION OF A NEW WARBLER OF THE GENUS CISTICOUJ . 
By Alwin Haagner, Assistant, Transvaal Museum. 
Amongst the small collection of birds sent by Mr. P. A. Sheppard, 
from the neighbourhood of Beira, and mentioned in my previous paper 
in this number of the “ Annals,” was a little warbler which appeared to be 
undescribed. In revising the Museum collection of warblers I came across 
another specimen from Matabeleland, which appears to be identical with 
the Beira bird, except that it is a little larger. I have since also found 
another example in the recently acquired collection of Messrs. Kirby and 
Roberts, from the Boror District, just north of the Zambezie River, 
Portuguese South-East Africa. 
CISTICOLA CINNAMOMEICEPS, sp. nov. 
Similar i o fulvicapilla, but differing in that the underparts are 
whitish, only the sides of the breast and body and flanks being greyish, 
the flanks and chest washed with yellowish ; cheeks pale tawny, and not 
dusky-grey, as in fulvicapilla. 
Description : Above drabbish-brown, with a wash of tawny. Top of 
head and nape pale chestnut-brown or “ cinnamon-rufous.” Under surface 
whitish with here and there a yellowish tinge. Sides of the breast and flanks 
grey, washed with very pale tawny-yellow. Under tail-coverts dirty 
white. Thighs pale fulvous. Tail coloured like the back, with the ends 
of the feathers paler, and a feint indication of a subterminal dusky bar. 
Lores, eyebrow, and cheeks pale tawny-yellow, the latter streaked with 
dusky. Remiges brown, edged with pale fulvous on the outer web, the 
edging of the outermost primaries being nearly white. Inner web 
margined with pale rufous. Bill : Upper mandible pale horn-brown ; 
lower pale yellowish. 
(a) Male. Matabeleland, 16th September, 1905. (C. Wilde.) 
Length, 108 ; wing, 52 ; tail, 42 -75 ; tarsus, 18 *5 ; bill, 
11 mm. 
( b ) Sex uncertain. M’Zimbiti, near Beira, 12th January, 1908. 
(P. A. Sheppard.) Length, 100 ; wing, 50 ; tail, 39 ; 
tarsus, 18 ; bill, 11 mm. 
