254 
Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
No.. 
Locality. 
Date. 
Sex. 
Wing. 
Tail. 
Tars. 
Culm. 
4266 
Umtamvuma Riv., 
Pondoland 
-/6/08 
O, 
63 
67 
27 
14 
4265 
"-/6/08 
3 
73 
2 
28 
15 
4267 
Noodsberg, Natal. . 
- 1/08 
3 
73 
2 
27 
14 
6829 
Hector Spruit, E. 
Transvaal 
13/9/10 
3 
73 
70 
28 
13 -5 
6827 
33 5 3 
25/5/10 
c? 
74 
74 
27 
15 
6825 
5 ) 3 3 
15/7/10 
c? 
72 
74 
28 
14 
8941 
33 33 
20/5/11 
- ¥ 
63 
59 
25 
13 
6824 
3 3 3 3 
1/3/11 
<?(¥) 
63 
55 
25 
12 
8940 
3 3 3 3 
1 / 6 /10 
¥ 
62 
58 
24 
12 
6826 
3 3 3 3 
30 /5 /10 
3 (¥) 
60 
50 
24 -5 
13 
5255 
Matoppos, Rhodesia 
19/4/08 
<? 
71 
58 
27 
14 
5241 
Beira, P. E. Africa 
26/12/06 
■3 
71 
55 
27 
15 
5253 
3 3 3 3 
1/9/07 
¥ 
62 
60 
24 
13 
5254 
Boror, P. E. Africa 
2 
( -j hiem.) 
72 
65 
27 
14-5 
5242 
28 /4/08 
$ (aest.) 
60 
49 
25 
14 
8945 
Kesii, Brit. E. Africa 
-/9/10 
2 ( 3 ) 
72 
50 
27 . 
14 
Note. — The adult <$<$. in summer plumage have the maxilla black, and the mandible 
white for the apical half, black like the maxilla on the basal portion ; in the case' cf adult 
in winter plumage, the whole of the mandible is horn-colour and the maxilla is dark 
brown. 
Group X — Cisticola erythrops. 
(1) Tail and wing about equal in length ; (2) first primary 62-68 % 
length of second; (3) tail broad and soft; (4) beak medium, in length 
equal to middle toe and half the claw ; (5) inner and outer toes equal, 
their claws reaching beyond base of middle claw ; (6) middle claw less than 
half length of toe, rather weak but sharp ; legs and feet slender ; (7) 
seasonal changes not noted. Inhabits short grass and bushes under shelter 
of the forests of tropical Ethiopia. 
Cisticola erythrops (Hartlaub).* 
The following description is taken from Sharpe’s Catalogue of Birds 
in the British Museum, Vol. 7, p. 250 
“ General colour above ashy olive-brown, with tufts of silky-buff 
feathers on each side of the rump ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; 
median and greater coverts, bastard wing, primary-coverts and quills 
ashy, with narrow rufescent margins ; quills ashv-brown, with, rufous- 
brown edges ; the inner secondaries more ashy, with indistinct dusky 
cross markings and pale fulvescent edges ; upper tail-coverts like the 
back ; centre tail-feathers ashy-olive, the remainder clearer ashy with 
broad yellowish-buff ends to the feathers, preceded by a broad bar of black ; 
crown of the head like the back, the base of the forehead tawny rufous, 
with a shade of the latter extending over the hinder crown and occiput ; 
lores and eyebrows tawny buff, paler on the former ; feathers round the 
eye, ear-coverts and cheeks also tawny buff ; throat and under surface of 
* Orn. Westafrikas, p. 58 (1857). 
