200 TTMEI.IID.'E. 



;•. 2 ad. sk. Taita, E. Africa, Feb. 1;3, J. M. Hildebrandt [C.]. 



1870. 

 s. Ad. sk. Mombas ( Wakefield). E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



<. Ad. sk. Senaf^, Abyssinia, Feb. 23, W. T.Blanford,Esq.[P.]. 



1808. 

 u. Ad. sk. Quilombo, Angola {A. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Heath), 

 r. Ad. sk. Angola. J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [C.]. 



e. Ad. in ptil. hiom. ( = C. cMniana, Sm.). 



w. <S fid. sk. Otjimbinque, Damara Land, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



June 18, 1866 (C. J. A.), 

 .r. (S ad.sk. Otjimbinque, Damara Land, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Aug. 25, 1860. 

 y, s. c? ? ad. Elephant Vley, Aug. 1859 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



sk. {C.J. A.), 



a' ,i' , c' . (S ; d' ,e' . Swakop river, April 1865 E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



2ad.sk. {C.J. A.), 



f. (S ad. sk. Otjipatna, July 18, 1866 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



{CJA.). 

 </'. (5 ad. sk. Damara Land, July 12, 1866 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



{C.J. A.). 



12. CHTHONICOLA. 



Type. 

 "Chthonicola, Gould, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 35 C. sagittata. 



Range. Australia. 



1. Chthonicola sagittata. 



Streaked Warbler, Lath. Gen. Syn., Suppl. ii. p. 247 (1801)'. 

 Sylvia sagittata. Lath. Lnd. Om., Suppl. ii. p. liv (1801). 

 Anthus minimus, Vig. fy Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 230 (1837). 

 Chthonicola minima, Gould, P. Z. 8. 1847, p. 34; id. B. Austr.iol, 



iii. pi. 72 (1848) ; Eeichenb. Vog. Keuholl. p. 295 (1850). 

 Calamanthus strigatus, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 104 (1848). 

 Chthonicola sagittata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 280 (1850) ; Gould, Handb. 



B. Austr. i. p. 390 (1865) ; Ra-)nsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



ii. p. 186 (1878). 

 Calamanthus sagittatus. Gray, nand-l. B. i. p. 204, no. 2875 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above light olive-greenish mottled with 

 brown, the feathers brown in the centre, edged with olive-greenish ; 

 rump olivaceous buff; upper tail-coverts olive; wing-coverts brown 

 margined with olive, paler on the greater coverts ; quiUs browTi, 

 narrowly edged with whity brown, olive on the secondaries; centre 

 tail-feathers brown, shaded with darker brown down the middle of 

 the feathers ; remainder of tail-feathers brown, edged with olive, 

 becoming black towards the end of the tail, which i.s tipped with 

 white ; head and nape brown, the forehead and crown mesially 

 streaked with whity brown ; lores, feathers round the eye, and a 

 slight eyebrow, as well as the sides of the face and ear-coverts whitish, 

 the latter slightly shaded with brown ; along the side of the hinder 



