102 TI.MKL1ID.E. 



a,h. S 9- ad. sk. Transvaal [Ayres). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c,d. S 9. al. sk. Otiimbiiique, D.unara T.aud, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



"June 30, 18G6 (C. J. An- 



dersson). 

 e. Ad. sk. Damava Land. C. J. Andersson, 



Esq. [C.]. 



6. Eremoraela pulchra. 



Tricholais puk-hra, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. vi. pp. 257, 275, 1880, p. 24^1 ; 



id. Oin. Angola, p. 555 (1881). 

 Tricbolais citriniceps, Reichenoiv, J.f. 0. 1882, pp. 210, 235. 



Female. General colour above ashy grey ; lesser, median, greater, 

 and primary wing-coverts, and bastard wing like the back ; quills 

 dusky externally like the back, with a slight tinge of olive- 

 yeUow near the base of the outer web ; tail-feathers ashy grey, 

 narrowly fringed viith white at the tip and along the end of 

 the inner web, washed near the base with olive-yellow ; crown 

 of head light olive-yellow ; lores dusky grey, surmounted by a 

 narrow line of yellow, forming an eyebrow ; feathers round the 

 ej-e yellow ; ear-coverts pale yeUow, dusky olive on the upper 

 margins ; fore part of cheeks white, as also the base of the 

 chin ; throat and fore neck pale yellow ; breast and abdomen 

 white ; sides of body and flanks slightly washed with ashy ; thighs 

 washed with yellow at the tips ; under tail-coverts white ; under 

 wing-coverts and axiUaries white ; edge of the wing washed with 

 pale yellow : quills ashy below, inner edges whitish ; bill black ; 

 iris yellow. Total length 5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-5, tail 2-U5, 

 tarsus 0*7o. 



The bird described is in Capt. Shelley's collection, and is one of 

 the typical specimens fromCaconda. An adult female in the Berlin 

 Museum from Kakomy (Bohm), the tj[5e of Tricholais citriniceps., 

 Reichenow, diflers m its very much brighter coloration, the head 

 being yellow, brighter on the forehead, over the eye, and on the sides 

 of the face and throat, while the thighs are also bright yellow. 

 Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-3, tail 1-6.5, tarsus 0-75. 



Hah. Benguela in S.W. Africa, ranging across to Central Africa. 



7. Eremomela scotops. (Plate V. fig. 1.) 



Eremomela scotops, Siindev. OSfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fiirh. Stockh. 1850, 



p. 103; HeiKil. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 285 (18G9); Finsch ^- Hartl. 



Vng. Osiafr.' p. 241 (1870) ;" Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 299 



(1877). 

 Urymoica scotops, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 202, no. 2854 (1869). 

 Eremomela hemixantlia, Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 403 ; Shelley, Ibis, 



1882, p. 254. 



General colour above light ashy, slightly tinged with yellow ; 

 lesser and median coverts like the back, with a faint tinge of yellow; 

 greater coverts a little paler ashy ; bastard wing and primary- 

 coverts dusky with ashy margins ; quills dusky brown, with light 



