134 TIMKLIID^. 



The sexes measure as follows: — 



Total 



length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 



in. in. in. in. 



cJ . Damara Laud 60 2-4 2-15 0-85 



2 . Damara Laud 4-5 2-25 2-0 0-85 



The female is like the male in plumage. 



Young. Very similar to the adult, and differing only in its less 

 banded under surface, the breast and flanks being uniform. 



Hub. South Africa, extending from the interior of the Cape 

 Colony to the Mashooua country on the east, and to Damara Land 

 on the west. 



a. Ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith _[C.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 h. Ad. sk, Damara Land. C. J. Andersson, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 c, (/. (S ad. et $ juv. sk. Otjimbinque, June 1866 R. B. Sharps, L.>q. 



\C. J. Andersson). 

 e. 2 ad. sk. Matalko, Damara Land, E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



July 1866 (C. /. A.). 



2. Calamonastes undosus. 



Drymoeca undosa, Eeichenoic, J.f. O. 1882, p. 211. 



Adult male (type of species). General colour above uniform dark 

 ashy brown ; wing-coverts like the back ; the greater coverts ob- 

 scurely edged with lighter ashy ; bastard-wing feathers and pri- 

 mary-coverts dusky broA\Ti with ashy margins ; quills dark brown 

 with lighter brown margins, the inner secondaries like the back ; 

 tail-feathers brown, with dusky cross bars under certain lights, the 

 feathers with obsolete lighter brown margins, but having no dark 

 subtenniual bar ; crown of head like the back ; lores ashy whitish, 

 mottled with dusky bases ; feathers below the eye and the ear- 

 coverts dusky brown, streaked with whitish shaft-stripes ; cheeks 

 and throat dull white, barred with dusky brown ; fore neck and 

 chest ashy brown, with less distinct dusky cross bars, these becoming 

 still less distinct on the breast and abdomen, which are whiter ; 

 sides of the body and flanks washed with ashy ; thighs tawnj' ; 

 under tail-coverts apparently whitish ; under wing-coverts and ax- 

 illaries pale tawnj' buff, with dusky markings near the edge of the 

 wing ; quills below ashy brown, inner edge of quills pale fulvous ; 

 "bill black; feet and iris reddish jellow"' [Bohm). Total length 

 58 inches, culmen 0*o5, wing 2"55, tail 1-55, tarsus 0*85. {Mus. 

 Berol.) 



Hah. Central Africa. 



