242 
Annals of the Tkansvaal Museum. 
No. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Sex. 
W mg. 
Tail. 
Tars. 
Culm. 
8965 
Wakkerstroom. . . . 
16/10/09 
<? 
66 
51 
20 
12 
9180 
J5 * * • 9 
26/12/11 
<? 
67 
56? 
19 
12*5 
9506 
• 
18/1/12 
-A 
0 
64 
2 
21 
12 
9507 
5? • • • * 
18/1 /12 
¥ 
55 
? 
18 
11 
8986 
J5 .... 
5/10/09 
$ 
54 
50 
19 
11 
1 have also taken the following measurements of skins 3dnd.lv lent me 
for the purpose by Eev. R. Godfrey, of Pirie, King williams town : — 
No. Locality. 
Date. 
Sex. 
Wing. 
Tail. 
Tars. 
Culm. 
— Pirie 
. . 29/6 /10 
$ 
62 
68 
22 
12 

.. 28/9/10 
3 
62 
58 
20 
12 
)5 
.. 29/6/10 
¥ 
52 
54 
19 
11 
>5 
.. 19/12/10 
1 
52 
4:8? 
19 
11 
JJ 
. . 14 12 09 
$ 
52 
44 ? 
18 
11 
JJ 
.. 19/12/10 
¥ 
56 
51 
19 
11 
JJ - • * * * 
. . 23/12/10 
9 
T 
51 
47 ? 
18 
11 
Note. — Some specimens are more lightly coloured on the crown than others ; this 
fact is due apparently to friction. 
3. Cisticola monticola , spec. nov. 
This species closely resembles C. lais , but may be readily distinguished 
by its uniform and brighter coloured crown, less conspicuously streaked 
back, and by the fact that the sub terminal marks on the tail feathers are 
not so clearly defined. The following description is taken from an adult 
male in winter plumage, collected at Six-mile Spruit, Pretoria, on 17th 
August, 1909 : — 
Forehead, crown and nape uniform chestnut red, merging on the neck 
into the paler coloured back ; scapulars and feathers of the back grey, 
with dark centres, producing a streaked appearance, and more or less 
suffused with rufous ; rump and upper tail- coverts coloured like the back 
but not streaked ; middle tail feathers uniform rufous brown, the remaining 
feathers slightly darker and with a dark brown subterminal smudge confined 
to the inner web. Lesser and median coverts like the back ; greater coverts 
brown in the centre with rufous outer margins and paler tips and inner 
margins ; primaries and secondaries brown, the outer margins of all but 
the two outermost of the former bright rufous, this colour extending 
obliquely over all the quills and becoming paler on the innermost secondaries, 
the faded rufous margins then extending round the tips and inner margins ; 
primary-coverts like the primaries. Bristles on the sides of the face tipped 
with black, giving a freckled appearance to the cheeks ; lores, eyebrows, 
and the whole of the under surface fulvous, the flanks slightly darker and 
the throat and middle of abdomen paler. Edge of wing yellowish white. 
Iris red-brown ; maxilla brown, mandible and legs flesh colour. Length 
in the flesh, 147 mm. 
Although the Transvaal Museum collection contains about a dozen 
skins of this species, most of them possess a worn and soot-stained plumage, 
and are useless for detailed examination ; but the outstanding characters 
are still clearly perceptible. In summer the plumage is much whiter 
below, greyer above, and the crown lighter rufous, and therefore in greater 
