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four on the nape and hindneck, with the base more rufous than white ; 
back and inner scapulars of the same ground colour as the crown, but 
much suffused with rufous yellow, on the lower back yellowish white ; 
upper outermost scapulars white for the greater part, next white on the 
outer margin, rufous and dark brown on the inner, and tipped with dark 
brown ; towards the tail the white spreads across both webs, and the 
dark brown tip extends round the margin until quite encircling the white 
in some feathers. Rump and upper tail-coverts somewhat more rufous- 
shaded than the back. Central tail-feathers with eleven or twelve bars, 
outer ten or eleven, the greater figures referring to the paler colour. 
Primaries and secondaries dark brown, barred with rufous, becoming 
white towards the base of the inner webs and increasing towards the 
innermost secondaries, which are white for the greater part ; secondaries 
white on the outer web also, forming spots. Primary coverts, greater 
wing-coverts, and bastard wing less distinctly barred than the primaries ; 
middle wing-coverts brown, with a rufous spot on the inner web, for the 
greater part of the outer web white, forming a bar across the wing ; bend 
of the wing and lesser wing-coverts like the back, but not so distinctly 
banded. Eyebrow, cheeks, and lores white, the last with protruding 
black bristles ; chin and patch on centre of crop white ; throat rufous 
brown ; ear-coverts brown, variegated with white ; breast white in the 
middle, banded on the sides and upper part with yellowish, red-brown, 
and white ; remaining under-surface of body white tinged with buff, and 
thickly marked with triangular-shaped bars, red-brown on the lower 
portion and darker on the upper. Legs rufous in front, more or less 
banded, and uniform white behind. Under tail-coverts uniform, white 
tinged with buff. Under wing-coverts white or yellowish, more or less 
marked with dark and red-brown, axillaries pale sulphur yellow and not 
banded ; edge of wing white. 
Type of $ T.M. No. 4741 ; ex coll. Kirby and Roberts, Boror, 
P.E. Africa, 13.VIII.08. (Iris, sulphur yellow ; bill, yellowish green, 
tip paler : feet, greenish yellow. Length, 206 mm. — K. & R.) Wing, 
144 ; tail, 87 ; culm., 13 mm. 
Type of § T.M. No. 4744 ; same coll, and loc., 24.VII.08. Length, 
215 ; wing, 137 ; tail, 80 ; culm., 13 mm. 
In the collection there are also three more specimens from the same 
locality which are identical in colour with the types, and measure : 
length, 208-215 ; wing, 135-142 ; tail, 80-86 ; culm., 11-13 ram. 
Dendromus albifacies , spec. nov. 
Very similar to Dendromus scriptoricauda Reich enow, but differing 
in having a white eyebrow extending from the upper edges of the 
ear-coverts to the forepart of the eye, where it is separated from the 
white lores by a few dark brown feathers with white tips ; the side of 
the face between the eye and red malar streak, as also the lores, pure 
white ; rump and sides of upper tail-coverts distinctly paler than the 
back and middle upper tail-coverts, and forming a band across the former. 
Forehead, crown, and nape crimson ; hindneck dark brown 
banded with whitish ; remaining upper surface like the hindneck, but 
suffused with bright olive yellow on the upper back, middle upper 
tail-coverts, and external margins of wing feathers ; tail dark yellowish 
indistinctly banded with dark brown, the shafts yellow and darker 
towards the tips. Feathers and bristles overlapping the nostrils yellowish ; 
lores white, extending in a broad patch below the eye to the base of the 
ear-coverts white ; small patches before and behind the eye dark brown, 
