8. EREMOMELA. 159 



c. Head blue-grey, contrasting with olive-yellow back. 

 e' . Throat white ; remainder of under surface bright 



yellow elegans, p. 163. 



f. Throat, breast, and underparts white, with a 



broad yellow band across the chest caniceps, p. 164. 



d. Head ashy blackish ; upper smi'ace bright olive- 



yellow ; wings and tail black, edged ■> ith hoary 



grey ; outer tail-feathers tipped with wuite .... nigriceps, p. 165. 



e. Head rufous ; upper surface bluish grey ; on lower 



throat a black mark hadiceps, p. 164. 



1. Eremomela flaviventris. 



Sylvia flaviventris, Burchell, Trav. 8. Afr. i. p. 335, note (1824). 



Eremomela flaviventris, Sundev. OEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fiirh. Stockh. 

 18o0, p. 102; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 285 (1869); Ayres, 

 Ibis, 1871, p. 153 ; 'Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 34 (1871) ; Gurney, in 

 Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 97 (1872) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. 

 p. 297 (1877) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1878, p. 286 ; Socage, Orn. Angola, 

 p. 565 (1882) ; SheUey, Ibis, 1882, p. 254. 



Drymoica flaviventris, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 202, no. 2849 (1869). 



Adult female. General colour above light ash-colour, the rump 

 lighter and slightly olivaceous ; wings dark brown, the feathers 

 washed externally with ashy, inclining to whity brown on the outer 

 greater coverts and the primaries ; tail dark brown, externally 

 edged with dull olivaceous ; lores dull white, extending over the 

 eye and forming a narrow eyebrow ; round the eye a narrow 

 circlet of white feathers ; ear-coverts ash-coloured, with very narrow 

 shaft-lines of white ; in front of the eye a dusky spot ; feathers 

 below the eye white ; cheeks and under surface of body as far as 

 the abdomen white ; the sides of the upper breast light ash-colour ; 

 abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts light yellow ; thighs ash- 

 colour ; under wing-coverts ashy whitish ; " bill dark horn-colour, 

 yellow at the angle of the mouth, and livid flesh-colour on the basal 

 part of the lower mandible ; iris dark brown " (Andersson). Total 

 length 3-5 inches, eulmen 0*4, wing 2-1, tail 1*5, tarsus 0"65. 



The male does not differ from the female in plumage. Total 

 length 3-5 inches, eulmen 0'45, wing 2-2, tail 1"45, tarsus 0-7. 



Ilab. South Africa from Benguela on the west to the Orange 

 river, and from British Caffraria on the east northwards to the 

 Mashoona country. 



a, b. Ad. ; c. Inim. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [0.1. 



sk. 



d. (5 ad. sk. Kingwilliamstown, Capt. H. Trevelyan [P.]. 



June 3, 1877 ( C. 

 Newby). 



e, f. $ ad. sk. Transvaal {T. Ayres). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



<7, A. <5 9 ad. sk. Damara Land. " C. J. Andersson, Esq. [C.]. 



t. 2 ad. sk. Elephant Vley, Sept. 5, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1859 (C. J.'A.). 

 k. cJ ad. sk. Elephant Vlev. Oct. 26, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1859 (C.XA.). 



