'50 TlMELIID^i;. 



Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 4-35, tail 3-9, tarsus 

 1-15. 



A male from Kanye has the median wing-coverts tipped with a 

 black edging, and black tips to some of the upper tail-coverts ; the 

 band separating the black breast from the abdomen also is fulvous. 

 Wing 4-45. 



A younger female has the forehead and lores washed with ashy, 

 and the sides of the chest and breast washed with brown. 



Hah. South-eastern Africa, extending as far north as the Ma- 

 shoona country. 



a, b. 2 ad. iun. sk. Eland's Post,S.E. Africa, April R. B. Sharps, Esq. 

 1870 ( T. C. Atmore). 



c. 6 ad. sk. Eland's Post, April 9, 1870 {T. Pv. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



C. A.). 



d. S ad. sk. Kanye, llatabele Land {Dr. H. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Exton). 



e. d ad. St. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



2. Thainnolaea albiscapulata. 



Saxicola alboscapulata, R'dpp. Neue Wirb. p. 74, pi. 26. fig. 1 (1835) ; 



Des Miirs in Lefebire's Vox/. Abyss, p. 92 (1845). 

 Thamuohia alboscapulata, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 58 (1845) ; Heuql. 



Syst. Uebers. p. 27 (1856) ; Brehm, Reis. Habesch, p. 292 (1863) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 211, no. 2995 (1869). 

 Thamnolsea alboscapulata, Cab. Mus. Rein. Th. i. p. 8, note (1850) ; 



Bp. Comp. i. p. 302 (1850) ; Heuyl. J. f. O. 1862, pp. 286, 294 ; 



Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 40 (1864) ; HeiuiL J. f. O. 1869, p. 149; 



id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 367, App. p. cii (1869-71) ; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. 



vii. p. 235 (1870) ; Blanf. Geol. ^- Zool. Abyss, p. 360 (1870) ; 



Gurmy, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 148 ; Antin. Sf Salvad. Viagg. Bogos, 



p. 95 (1873). 

 Thamnobia cfesiogastra, Bp. Comptes Rendus, xxxviii. p. 7 (1854) ; 



Hartl Orn. Westafr. p. 70 (1857). 

 Thamnolffia csesiogastra, Heugl Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 368 (1869). 

 Thamnobia schimperi, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 212, no. 2998 (1869). 



Male. General colour above blue-black ; rump chestnut, the lower 

 feathers tipped with black ; median and lesser wing-coverts pure 

 white, forming a shoulder-patch ; greater coverts, bastard wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills black, externally edged with blue-black ; 

 upper tail-coverts black, with chestnut bases to the feathers ; tail- 

 feathers black, washed externally with chestnut at the extreme 

 bases of the feathers ; lores, sides of face, sides of neck, throat, and 

 breast blue-black ; lower breast, abdomen, sides of body, and flanks 

 chestnut, with a line of yellowish buff separating the breast from 

 the black chest ; thighs black, barred with yellowish buff ; under 

 tail-coverts black, with chestnut bases to the feathers ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries blue-black ; quiUs blackish below, inner edge 

 browner. Total length 7-8 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 4-65, tail 3-5, 

 tarsus l-lo. 



Female. Like the male in colour, but without the white wing- 

 patch. Total length 7-8 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 4-45, tail 3-4, 

 tarsus 1-15. 



