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a. (S ad. sk. South Afi-ica (E. L. Lctyard). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



h. Ad., c. Jiiv. sk. South Africa {E. L. Layard). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d. Ad. sk. Cape Town ( C. J. Andersson). Purchased. 



e. Ad. sk. Aamhoup, Great Namaqua . R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Laud, June 29,1861 {V.J.A.). 



f. g. Ad. St. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



2. Erythropygia simplex. 



Thamnobia simplex, Cah. J.f. 0. 1878, pp. 205, 221. 

 Erythropygia simplex, Sharpe, J.f. O. 1882, p. 345. 



Adult male (Kdi, Taita ; Dr. Hildebrandt, July 1877: type of 

 species). General colour above dark slate-colour; -wing-coverts like 

 the back, -with a slight wash of olive-brown ; quills dusky brown, 

 ■with reddish-brown shafts, the primaries also slightly washed with 

 reddish brown near the base : secondaries with a slight wash of 

 olive-brown on their outer web ; tail-feathers dark brown, blacker 

 towards their ends, which are narrowly fringed with white at the 

 tips ; sides of face and ear-coverts dull slate-colour, the under 

 surface a little lighter, slightly paler on the throat. Total length 

 5-6 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-35. tail 2-2, tarsus 0-85. {Mus. 

 Berol.) 



Hah. Eastern Afiica. 



3, Erythropygia leucophrys. 



Le Grivetin, LevaUl. Ois. d'Afr. iii. pi. 118. fig. 1 (1802) ; Swidev. 



Krit. Framst., Levaill. p. 37 (1857). 

 Sylvia leiicophrvs, I'ieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xi. p. 191 (1817, ex 



'Levaill.) ; id.^Sf Eonn. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 454 (1823). 

 Turdus pipiens, Steph. in Spates Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. ii. p. 202 (1826). 

 Curnica leucophrys, Lesson, Traite, p. 416 (1831). 

 Erythropygia pectoralis. Smith, Rep. E.iped. C. Afr., App. p. 46 



(183G)'; Bianc. Spec. Zool. Mosamb. fasc. xvi. p. 401 (1865). 

 Aedon leucophrvs, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 173 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 286 (1850) : Gtirney, Ibis, 1864, p. 349 : Layard, B. S. Afr. 



p. 99 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 211,no.'298i (1869) ; Finsch 



%■ Hartl. Tog. Osfafr. p. 863 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 29 



(1871, part.) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 153 ; Buckley, iJ«s, 1874, p. 372 ; 



Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 100 ; Sharpe in Oates's Matabele Land, p. 309 



(1881) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 252. 

 Aedon pectoralis. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 173 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 286 (1850) 

 Thamnobia leucophrys. Cab. Miis. Hein. Th. i. p. 40, note (1850). 

 Thamnobia pectoralis. Cab. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 40, note (1850). 

 Erythi'opygia leucophrys, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 588. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, with faint indications of 

 dusk}- margins to some of the feathers, the rump more ferruginous ; 

 lesser wing-coverts more ashy brown than the back, with dusky 

 centres ; wing-coverts blackish, edged with fulvous-brown and tipped 

 with white ; primary-coverts dusky brown, edged with fulvous 

 brown ; quills dusky brown, margined with whity brown ; tho 



