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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
281. ClSTICOLA SUBRUFICAPILLA. 
GC. Klipfontein, Apl., June (3). 
These skins appear to me to represent the true C. subrufi- 
capilla; I have compared them with the type of the species 
in the British Museum, and they agree with it very well. 
The distinguishing characters are:— 
1. The ashy-grey under parts become nearly white in the 
centre of the abdomen, hut with no fulvous or rufous tinge. 
2. The slaty-grey hack has narrow and, as a rule, not 
strongly marked black centres. 
3. The head is washed with rufous and gradually fades 
into the grey of the hack, and is never in strong contrast 
to it ; like the back it is streaked, but faintly and not 
conspicuously. 
In the British Museum there are skins, in every way con¬ 
forming to this type, from Cape Town (Nov.), Deelfontein 
(March, May, and August), Port Nolloth (July), and Piquet- 
berg (Aug.). 
It appears, therefore, to be confined to the western portion 
of Cape Colony, while its place is taken further east and 
north by the following. 
281 a. ClSTICOLA CHINIANA. 
CC« Plettenberg Bay, Feb. (2) : Z. Sibudeni, Oct., Nov., 
Dec., Jan. (4) ; Umfolosi, June, July, Aug., Sept. (8) ; 
Tv, Zuurbron, May (4) ; Woodbush, Nov. (2) ; Klein 
Letaba, Aug. (1) ; P 0 Coguno, June, Aug., Sept. (6). 
This species varies a good deal in size. Two of the birds 
from Coguno, both males, and both taken the same month, 
measure as follows :— 
( a ) Length 135 mm.; wing 67 ; tail 61 ; tarsus 22 ; cub 
men 13. 
( b ) Length 118 mm.; wing 53 ; tail 50; tarsus 21 ; cul- 
men 12*5. 
Two males marked “ Umfolosi/’ also both taken in June, 
are nearly as divergent in measurement. The birds killed 
in winter have the heads almost plain, while those killed 
in summer (November to January) have the heads strongly 
streaked. 
