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178A. PAKUS RUFIVENTRIS Boc. 



There is an example of this species (Shelley B. Afr. ii. p. 238) in 

 the South African Museum, a male, obtained by the late Mr. A. W. 

 Eriksson, at Ochimbora in Ovampoland, on November 4, 1890. 

 It must, therefore, be included in the South African list. It 

 closely resembles P. pallidiventris, but is a darker blue-slate above 

 and a richer cinnamon below. The range of the species extends 

 northwards through Benguela to the Congo. 



181. ^EGITHALUS MINUTUS (Shaw). 



18lA. /EGITHALUS SMITHI Jard. and Selby. 



Mr. Sharps (Bull. B. 0. C. xiii. p. 60, and Ibis, 1904, p. 343), states 

 that there are two species of " Cappoc Vogel " which have hitherto 

 been confused by authors under the name of JE. capensis. This 

 name was founded by Gmelin on Sonnerat's " Petite Mesange du 

 Gap de Bonne Esperance," the figure of which is entirely unlike 

 the Cape " Cappoc Vogel " ; it perhaps represents Stenostira scita, but 

 it is quite unrecognisable, and should be dropped. 



The earliest name for the Cape Cappoc is Sylvia minuta Shaw,* 

 founded on _Levaillant's description and figure of the " Figuier 

 Becque-Fleur " (Ois. d'Afr. iii. pi. 134, figs. 1, 2), which is stated 

 to have come from the Oliphant Eiver district, now the Clanwilliam 

 and Van Ehyns Dorp divisions of Cape Colony. 



Examples of this bird from Deelfontein, Port Elizabeth, and King 

 William's Town are preserved in the British Museum, and from the 

 Cape division, Berg Kiveiv and Hanover, in the South African 

 Museum, and it is apparently confined to Cape Colony south of the 

 Orange Eiver. 



The Capoc Vogel of the Transvaal, Mashonaland, and Damaraland 

 is stated by Sharpe to be brighter in colour than that of the Colony, 

 and to this form he assigns the name JEyithalus smithi, of Jardine 

 and Selby, t the description of which is founded on a specimen 

 obtained by Sir Andrew Smith. 



Both these species are figured by Sharpe (Ibis, 1904, pi. viii., 

 figs. 1, 2), and the following diagnosis is given : 



a. Breast darker, and dull ochreous ; upper surface dark ashy, dark olivaceous on 

 the rump and upper tail coverts ; on the crown a slight indication of dusky 

 basis to the feathers _/>'. mi until*. 



* Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Misc. xxiii. pi. 997 (1812). 

 t Illustr. Orn. pi. 113, fig. 1 (1831). 



