LIST OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM 
that the Cisticola (misspelled Cysticola) campestris of Gould, 
afterwards named by him G. magna, and figured in his Birds of 
Australia, vol. iii. pi. 41, is evidently identical with the South 
African Drymceca levaillanti. Mr. Gould’s figure was taken from 
a specimen which has been for many years in my own possession, 
the locality of which was unknown, but which being stuffed with 
wool, as is frequent in specimens from Australia, I conjectured to 
be from that country. Mr. Gould accordingly figured it as a new 
species in his Birds of Australia. The occurrence of a specimen 
in the Damara collection has enabled me to detect this error. 
Mr. Gould’s specific name campestris was given in 1845, and 
must therefore yield to levaillanti , Smith, 1842. 
33. Drymceca jlavicans, Yieill. ; Levaill. Ois. Af. pi. 127. 
34. Drymceca jlavida , Strickland. Front, crown and cheeks, 
pale cinereous; back and wings yellowish-olive; remiges fuscous, 
margined with clear olive yellow; rectrices olive, margined vitli 
olive yellow, and tipped with pale yellow, the external pair wholly 
pale yellow ; chin whitish ; throat and breast pure pale yellow ; 
belly silvery white ; sides, under wing-covers and under tail-co\ers 
pale yellow ; beak horn colour ; base of lower mandible pale , kg 8 
pale brown. 
Total length, 4.2 ; beak to front, 4, to gape, 5, high, 1, broad, If > 
wing, 2; medial rectrices, i.6, external, i . 2 ; tarsus, 8. . 
The cuneate tail and form of beak refer this little bird to ^ 
vicinity of Drymceca or Prinia , though the coloration is more 1 ' ^ 
that of Phylloscopus. It seems allied to the “Malurus pulche >(■> 
of Buppell, Atl. Nord. Af. pi. 35,/. a., but that has a longer tai , 
tipped with white, and otherwise differs. 
35. Sylvietta brachyura , Lafr. Bev. Zool. 1839, p. 258. 
36. Sphenceacus pycnopygius, Sclater. D. capite et dorso si 
riore nigro brunneoque striatis: linea utrinque a rostro super oCU J ^ 
gula et pectore albis ; maculis crebris in pectore nigris ; venti e 
crisso, tibiis et tectricibus caudm superioribus et inferioiibus ru 
brunneis; alis caudaque nigricantibus, illis brunneo limbatis , ^ ^ 
rectricibus lateralibus pallide brunneo terminatis ; man i )U 
feriore alba, superiore nigra ; pedibus brunneis. 
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