13. THAMXOL^A. 51 



Young. Blackish brown, the wings and taU as in the adult 

 female, which the bird otherwise resembles ; no white shoulder- 

 patch ; rump rufous, barred with dusky black ; throat and breast 

 dusk_y blackish, the lower breast and abdomen light chestnut ; no 

 buff line between the black and chestnut of the breast. Wing 4-3. 



Hab. Iv orth-eastern Africa. 



a. c? ad. ; Abyssinia. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



b. Juv. sk. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Abyssinia. Purchased. 



d. c? ad. sk. Middle Sooroo, loOO feet, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



Jan. 2, 1868. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Senafe, 7500 feet, March 5, W. T. Bkxnford, Esq. [0.1. 



1868. ^ 



/. S ad. St. Abyssinia. Dr. EiippeU [C.l. 



ff. (S imm. st. Abyssinia. Baron Laugier. ' 



3. Thanmolaea semirufa. 



Saxicola semirufa, Rupp. Netie Wirb. Vog. p. 74, Taf. "^5 fio-s 1 2 

 (1835). ° ' ' 



Thamnobia semirufa, Rlipp. Si/st. Uebers. p. 59, no. 169 (1845) ; 

 Heugl. Si/st. Uebers. p. 27 (18%56) ; id. J.f. O. 1862, p. 286. 



Thamnolffia semirufa, Cab. Mtis. Hein. Th.i. p. 8 (1850): Heugl. J. 

 f. O. 1869, p. 150 ; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 368 (1869). 



Myrmecocichla quartini, Bp. C. R. xxxyiii. p. 7 (1854). 



Saxicola quartini. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 227, no. 3265 (1869). 



Adidt male. General colour above glossy black ; lesser win^- 

 coverts, median and greater coverts like the back ; bastard wing 

 and primary-coverts black ; quills black, with nearly the basal half 

 of the primaries white, forming a conspicuous wing-patch ; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail-feathers black ; lores and sides of face, sides of 

 neck, throat, and breast black ; lower breast, abdomen, sides of 

 body, and flanks chestnut ; thighs black ; under tail-coverts chest- 

 nut : under wing-coverts black ; axiUaries • black, with the inner 

 web chestnut ; quills blackish below, inner edge ashy, white near 

 the base, forming a large wing-patch. Total length 7 inches, 

 culmen OSo, wing 4-5, tail 2-95, tarsus 1-15. 



Adidt female. Kesembles the male in colour {Ueuqlin, I.e.). 



Young. Dusky blackish, the lower back, rump, part of the wing- 

 coverts, and under surface varied with pale fulvous ; the base of the 

 primaries (the first one excepted) and of the secondaries whitish ; a 

 median stripe on the throat, widening out on the lower throat, 

 bright fulvous ; vent and under tail-coverts rufous buff, with narrow 

 dusky shaft-streaks and small bands. 



Still younger birds are of a blackish dusky colour, all the feathers 

 margined and varied with a rufescent buff shade ; the alar speculum 

 smaller and more obsolete. (Heuglin, I. c.) 



Hab. :\\E. Africa. 



a. (S ad. sk. Abyssinia. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



b. 1mm. sk. Abyssinia. Purchased. 



c. Ad. St. Abv.ssinia. Purchased. 



d. Juv. st. Abyssinia. M. Verreaux. 



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