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I am well aware that Calamoherpe gracilirostris has beeu described from 

 Natal, bnt no exact locality is given, and the measurements point to the larger 

 bird, wing 3.02 = 76 mm., which, indeed, occurs still plentifully at Newcastle. 

 It is impossible to employ for this bird the name of Si/ln'a babaecula Vieill., 

 founded on "La Caijneteuse " of Levaillant, which lias dirty black jiatches on 

 the chest and breast, and ver\- probably is the Dnidi/jiterug, later called harratti 

 by Sharps, as Reicheuow, Vogel Afrikas, iii. p. 680, has correctly pointed out. 



1 have examined no less than thirty-eight specimens of this species, all of 

 which, with the exception of three specimens in Tring, aTe in the British Slusenm. 



Seventeen specimens from Potchefstroom and six specimens from Newcastle 

 have the following measurements : 



2 <?(?, wing 75| — 78 (80 in two cases), tail 07 — 73 (75 in two cases), 

 tarsus 27 — 29, hindclaw 8— S^ mm.; 2 ??, wing 72 — 74, tail 07 — 73, tarsus 

 27—29, hindclaw 8— 8i mm. 



Two specimens from Capetown have the wing 72^70, tail 70 — 75, tarsus 

 26i— 28, hindclaw 8— 8| mm. 



Two specimens from the Berg River (Cape Colony) : wing 71 — 72, tail (worn) 

 C6— 68, tarsus 28, hindclaw H\ mm. 



Two specimens from Omambonde, near Otavi, German South West Africa : 

 wing, c? 72, ? 68, tail 67, 69, tarsus 27, hindclaw 7J mm. 



Four specimens from Sir W. Jardine's collection without exact locality : 

 wing 09, 09A, 70j, 75, tail 65, 67, 70, 71, tarsus 27, 28, Iiindclaw 8} mm. 



The only specimen from the Limpopo System belongs to the Tring 

 Museum. ? Matlabas River (Erickssou coll.): wing 71, tail 66, tarsus 26i, 

 hindclaw 8. 



Three specimens from Sir Andrew Smith's collection : wing 70, 72, 76, 

 tail 62, 64, 72, tarsus 27, 28, hindclaw 8, broken in the red specimen, 8i in 

 the others. 



I cannot say, of course, whence the birds out of the Jardine collection 

 came, nor where Sir Andrew Smith collected his specimens, bnt they seem to 

 belong to a slightly smaller form than the specimens from Potchefstroom and 

 Newcastle. 



As to the coloration, the two Omambonde specimens are slightly paler on 

 the underside than most of the others, while two of Sir Andrew Smith's speci- 

 mens, as well as some of Sir William Jardine's birds, are very dark rufous. 



Calamocichla cunenensis Hart. 



Calamocichla cunenensis Hart., B. B. 0. C. vol. xiii. (U)03). p. 02. 



In this species the whole lores are white, and this colour is extended to above 

 the eyes. It diflers from L. gracilirostris, which it resembles in that respect, in 

 having the upper side more grey and less fulvous or rnsset-brown, and in the 

 under.side being practically white and crop and sides of the body slightly washed 

 with grey. A second specimen from Benguella has the upperside a little more 

 fulvous than the type, but still less so than 5fmc27»-os<;-2.9, the sides of body, belly, 

 and under tail-coverts being slightly washed with very pale buff. In both specimens 

 the first ])rimary is as broad as in the northern species of Calamocichla. Distribu- 

 tion from the Cunene to Benguella. 



