/. MONTICOLA. 325 



a, b. (S ad.sk. South Africa. Purcliased. 



c. c? ad. sk. Hope Town (T. C. R. B. Sliarpe, Esq. 



Afmorc). 



d. S ad. sk. Damara Land. C. J. Andersson, Esq. fCl 

 e,f. 6 2 ad. sk. Otjimbinque, Damara R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Land (C. J. Andersson). 



8. Mouticola erythrogaster. 



Tiu-dus erythrogaster, Vi^jors, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 171; Gould, Cent. B. 



Ilimal. M. pi. siii. (1832) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. S^c. Nepal Coll. 



Hodys. p. 81 (184('.) ; id. Gen. B. i. p. 219 (1847) ; id. Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 201. no. 3809 (1809). 

 Petrocincla rufiventris, Jard. 8f Selhj, III. Orn. pi. cxxix. (1835). 

 Petrocossyphus ferrugineoventer, Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 160. 

 Tardus (Petrneincla) erythrogastra ( Vigors), Blijth, J. A. 8. Benq 



xi. p. 189 (1842), xii. p. 929 (1843). 

 Petrocincla erythrogastra ( Viqors), Bhjth, J. A. S. Beng. xi p 401 



(1842), xvi. p. 149 (1847) ; id. Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 164 (1849) • 



IZorsf. ^- 3Ioore, Cat. B. Mas. E.I. Co. i. p. 185 (1854). ' 



Orocetes erythrogastra (7%ors), Bp. Cmisp. i. p. 298 (1850); Cah. 



Mus.IIein. i. p. 7 (1850); Jerd.B. Ind. i. p. 514(1802); Godiu.-Aust. 



J.A.S. Bemj. xxxix. pt. 2, p. 268 (1870) ; Hume &■ Davison, Strau 



Feaih. Ti. p. 250 (1878). 

 Petrophila ervthrogastra {Vigors), Hume, Nests and Ei/gs Ind B 



p. 227 (1873). 

 Monticola erythrogastra ( J7yo;-«), David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 159 



(1877). 



In the adult male in hreeding-pJumage the general colour of the 

 upper parts is cobalt-blue, each feather with concealed dark brown 

 bases ; lores, car-coverts, and sides of the neck black ; wings and 

 wing-coverts dark brown, the margins of the outside webs dull blue, 

 becoming cobalt-blue on the lesser wing-coverts ; tail brown, suffused 

 with dull blue and cobalt-blue ; chin and throat black suffused with 

 blue ; the remainder of the underparts, including the axillaries and 

 under wing-coverts, deep chestnut. BiU black. Wing with the 

 third, fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries nearly equal and longest, 

 second primary intermediate in length between the seventh and 

 eighth, bastard primary 1-5 to 1-2 inch. Legs, feet, and claws 

 dark brown. Length of wing 5-0 to 4-6 inches, tail 4'lo to 3-~, 

 culmcn 1-0 to Q-Oo, tarsus 1-1 to I'O. 



In the adult female in hreedimj-idumage the general colour of the 

 upper parts, including the wings and tail, is dull olive-brown, 

 transversely barred with black on tlic rump and upper tail-coveits • 

 chin and a narrow line down the centre of the throat nearly uniform 

 buff; the remainder of the underparts dark brown, each feather with 

 a broad subterminal buffish-white transverse bar; axillaries and 

 iinder wing-coverts pale ochraccous, barred with dark brown. It 

 is not known that any change takes place after the autumn moidt. 

 Birds of the year differ from adults only in the male having pale 

 ochraceous tips to the greater wing-coverts, and in the female 

 ha-snng the barring of the rump extending more or less consi^icuously 

 over the back, scapidars, and wing-coverts. Young iajirst plumage 



