Anhals of the Tkamsvaal Museum. 
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Upper surface drab-brown with a tinge of fawn, top of head only 
slightly rustier than back. Under surface whitish ; sides of head, peck, 
body, and flanks pale tawny-yellow. Tail feathers very broad (approaching 
Bradypterus) with a broad pale edge after the - subterminal black bar. 
Central tail feathers unicoloured. Length, 140 mm. 
The specimen from Boror is a young bird, as evidenced by the washes 
of yellow on both upper and under surface, (Iris light vandyke-brown, 
bill brown above, horn below ; gape yellow ; tarsus flesh colour. L. 144. 
W. 58. C. 13. Kirby & Roberts.) 
(14) Cisticola semitorques (Heugl.) 
\_C. cvnerascens, Stark & Sclater.] 
Resembles pretoriae, but paler everywhere, also smaller, the bill being 
also more slender. Back greyer. 
The Transvaal Museum possesses only two examples of this species, 
one from Natal, collected by A. Roberts, and one from Melsetter, Rhodesia 
(Swynnerton). 
(15) Cisticola ruficapilla (Vieill.) [C. aberrans (Smith)]. 
4 Grahamstown, C.C. (Ivy). 
7 Pondoland (H. H. Swinney). 
1 Woodbush, Transvaal (U. V. Kirby). 
1 Boror, P.E. Africa (Kirby & Roberts). 
1 Karri River, Bulawayo (Rhodesia Museum). 
From this series it is impossible to separate ruficapilla from aberrans, 
and the two must henceforth be united. 
Distinguished from cinnamomeiceps Haagner by its much larger size 
and longer tail, and from fulvicapilla, in addition, by its whitish under 
parts. 
(16) Cisticola cinnamomeiceps Haagner. 
(Annals, Transvaal Museum, January, 1909.) 
Type from Beira, P.E. Africa (P. A. Sheppard). 
Co-type from Matabeleland (C. Wilde). 
5 Skins, Pretoria, Transvaal (A. Roberts). 
1 Potchefstroom, Transvaal (A. Roberts). 
1 Irene (Sliortridge). 
1 Bulawayo (Rhodesia Museum). 
1 Shangani River (Rhodesia Museum). 
1 Boror, P.E. Africa (Kirby & Roberts). 
This bird has hitherto been confused with fulvicapilla and possibly 
with aberrans. It is the northern representative of fulvicapilla, from 
which it mainly differs in its pale under parts, only the sides of breast and 
body being washed with grey, and the upper breast greyish in some speci- 
mens. It has moreover a feint subterminal dark brown bar on the tail 
not possessed by either fulvicapilla or ruficapilla. From the latter bird 
it is in addition distinguished by its smaller ,size and shorter tail. 
(17) Cisticola fulvicapilla (V). 
5 Grahamstown (Ivy). 
2 Knysna (Marais). 
1 E. Pondoland (Davies). 
8 W. Pondoland (Swinney). 
This is a distinct and easily recognised form ; the throat, entire 
breast, sides, and flanks being of a deep (slate) grey, only centre of 
abdomen and chin being white ; under tail-coverts tinged with grey. This 
is the true (southern) fulvicapilla , the description of which in “ Vogel 
Afrikas,” p. 565, is somewhat misleading. 
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