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Annals of the Tkansvaal Museum. 
9. Upper surface tawny-yellow, streaked black or dark brown ; upper 
tail-coverts unstreaked . . .. .. .. C. chiniana. 
Upper surface tawny-yellow, streaked black or dark brown, upper 
tail-coverts streaked . . . . . . . . . . C. magna. 
10. Underside grey and white, or greyish and tawny-white mixed. 11 
Underside whitish, tawny, or dusky yellowish. 13. 
Ft. Underside deep grey, centre of abdomen white . . C. fulvicapilla. 
Underside tawny white or yellowish; flanks and sides of breast 
greyish, or washed with grey. 12. 
12. Tail over 55 mm., longer than wing . . . . C. ruficapilla. 
Tail under 55 mm., not longer than wing . . C. cinnamomeiceps. 
13. Head rufous, defined from coloration of back. 14. 
Head either coloured like the back, or greyer or yellower. 15. 
14. Back dark earth brown . . . . . . . . C. pretoriae. 
Back grey brown . . . . . . . . . . C. semitorques. 
15. Wing over 54 . . . . . . . . C. sylvia. 
Wing under 54. 16. 
16. Cheeks and forehead yellowish, wing 52 . . . . C. erythrops. 
Cheeks and forehead only slightly paler than crown, wing 44 
C. rufa. 
(1) Cisticola subruficapilla (A. Sm.) 
Following series examined :■ — 
11 Specimens from Ivnysna, C.C. (Marais). 
1 Specimen 
1 
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2 Specimens 
1 Specimen 
1 
2 Specimens 
Uitenhage, C.C. (R. H. Ivy). 
Grahamstown, C.C. (R. H. Ivy). 
Pienaars River, Transvaal (F. V. Kirby). 
Woodbush, Zoutpansberg, Transvaal 
(F. Y. Kirby). 
Pretoria, Transvaal (A. Roberts). 
Dargle, Natal (A. Roberts). 
Bulawayo (ex Rhodesia Museum). 
C. subruficapilla differs from chiniana in its smaller bill, shorter and 
more slender tarsus and toes (nails) ; is altogether a good bit smaller. 
Typical examples have the crown red - brown, the back grey, while in 
chiniana the difference in the coloration of head and back is not very 
pronounced. 
The bird from Uitenhage, the one from Natal, and seven of the 
Knysna birds are obviously juvenile. The two former have the crown 
only slightly ruddier than the back, while three of the Knysna birds have 
this region considerably redder, but not so rufous as in typical adults, 
the remaining four having the crown of the same grey ground colour as 
the back. Most of the Knysna juveniles have the chest streaked with 
dark brown. 
(2) Cisticola mulleri Alex. 
Three specimens examined. 
1 Transvaal (?). 
1 Modderfontein, Transvaal (Haagner). 
1 Matoppos (R. Williams). 
These birds are referred to this species with some doubt, as the 
ground colour of the back is inclined to russet-brown, only the bases of 
the feathers and some of the inner webs being grey. In the) plain 
chestnut-brown centre tail feathers, it agrees with Alexander’s description 
of mulleri. 
