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. With the rump black like the rest of the 



upper surface. 



c'. No white shoulder-patch, but a large 



white wing-patch formed by the 



base of the primaries ; abdomen 



rufous seminifa, p. 51. 



d'. A white shoulder-patch formed by 

 the lesser and median wing-coverts ; 

 abdomen black. 



a". Crown of head white sheUei/i c? , P- 52. 



b". Crown of head black. 



a'". Throat white shellei/i 5 , p- 52. 



b'". Throat black arnotti, p. 53. 



1. Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris. 



Turdus cinnamomeiventris, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 18.36, pis. -5.5, 56. 

 Saxicola ruhventer, Sumins. Aitiin. in Menag. p. 293 (1837) ; Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 106 (1867). 

 Thamnobia cinnamomeiventris, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 185 (1846) ; 



Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 158; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 211, no. 2996 



(1869); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 26 (1871); id. ed. Layard B. S. 



Afr. p. 2.32 (1876) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1879, p. 396; Shelky, Ibis, 1882, 



p. 251. 

 Thamnolaea cinnamomeiventris, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 8 (1850) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 302 (1850) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1864, p. 349. 

 Copsjchus cinnamomeiventris, pt., Bjj. Consul, i. p. 267 (1850). 

 Petrocincla montaua, Licht. Xomencl. Av. Berol. p. 26 (1854). 

 Saxicola albiscapulata, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 106 (1867, iiec Biipj}.). 

 Thamnobia ptymatura, Guryuy, Ibis, 1869, p. 328. 

 Thamnocichla cinnamomeiventris, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. o 



(1872). 



Adult male. General colour above blue-black ; median and lesser 

 "wing-coverts white, forming a shoulder-patch ; greater series, 

 bastard wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, externally edged 

 with blue-black ; rump and upper tail-coverts tawny rufous, the 

 latter deeper chestnut ; tail-feathers black ; lores, sides of face, 

 throat, and breast blue-black ; between the breast and abdomen a 

 line of whitish ; abdomen and flanks tawny rufous, thighs black ; 

 vent and under tail-coverts deep chestnut, the longer ones black at 

 the end, tipped narrowly with chestnut ; under wing-coverts, 

 axillaries, and quills below black ; inner edge of quills ashy ; "bill 

 and tarsus black ; iris dark umber" (y. Ayres). Total length 8"8 

 inches, culmen O'So, wing 4-55, tail 4, tarsus l-2o. 



Adidt female. Differs from the male in being sooty black above, 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts uniform deep chestnut ; wings and 

 tail as iu the male, excepting that the female wants the white wing- 

 patch, and has the lesser and median coverts edged with slaty grey; 

 lores and ear-coverts blackish ; throat and breast dull slaty grey ; 

 remainder of under surface deep chestnut ; under tail-coverts chest- 

 nut, the longer ones black, chestnut down the middle and at the tips ; 

 thighs black ; axillaries and under wiug-coverts dull slaty grey. 

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