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Mr. W. L. Sclater on Birds collected 
species since the Central Cape Colony trip. It is an active 
little bird, usually found in pairs; it frequents the bushes 
everywhere, and spends much of its time searching for insects. 
It has a jerky flight and is very Wren-like in habits. 
The soft parts are :—Irides grey-brown; bill black, base 
lilac; legs and toes brownish flesh-coloured.] 
272. ClSTICOLA FULVICAPILLA. 
CC. Plettenberg Bay, Mch. (2) ; N. Illovo, Nov. (1). 
This species is apparently confined to the southern part of 
Cape Colony and the coast lands of Natal. The British 
Museum contains examples from Swellendam, George, 
Knysna, King William's Town (Jan., Oct.), and Pinetown 
near Durban (Jan., Mch., May, June, July, and Oct.). 
The specimens with buffy-whitish under parts, mentioned 
by Sharpe as being this species in winter dress and from the 
Transvaal, should be referred, in my opinion, to C. cinnamo- 
meiceps recently described by Haagner. 
[This little Grass-Warbler was noted from the Knysna 
district, where it was decidedly scarce, and Natal. It inhabits 
the long grass and vegetation in the vleis and bordering 
woods, and is usually observed in pairs. Its call is u weep 
weep," constantly repeated ; in other respects and appearance 
it much resembles C. subruficapilla. 
The soft parts are :—Irides pale amber-coloured ; bill, 
upper mandible horn-brown, lower much paler; legs and 
toes palish brown.] 
ClSTICOLA CINNAMOMEICEPS. 
Haagner, Annals Transvaal Mus. i. p. 197 (Jan. 1909). 
Tv. Klein Letaba, July, Aug., Sept. (3) ; Legogot, Apl., 
May (2) ; F. Coguno, Aug. (2). 
These little Grass-Warblers closely resemble C. fulvicapilla , 
with which, indeed, they have been hitherto confounded. 
The series of specimens of both forms now in the British 
Museum shew clearly that C. cinnamomeiceps cannot be the 
winter dress of C. fulvicapilla , as was supposed by Sharpe, 
but is its representative in the Transvaal and Rhodesia. 
In the British Museum series there are skins from 
Potchefstroom (Jan., July), and Rustenburg (Feb., Apl., 
