358 TURDID,^. 



The greater Sickle-xvingcd Chat-Eobin has occurred in various 

 localities of the northern parts of Cape Colony, ^\;liere it is supposed 

 to be a resident. 

 a, h. Ad. sk. South Africa. E. B. Sharps, Esq. 



4. MyrmecocicMa cinerea. 



Le Traquet traetrac, Lemill. Ois. (VAfr. iv. p. 103, pi. 184. fig. 1 (1805). 

 CEnanthe ciuerea, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi. p. 4:37 (1818, e.v 



Levaill.). 

 Sylvia cinerea ( Viein.), Bonn, et Vieill. Enc. Moth. ii. p. 493 (1820). 

 Saxicola traetrac, Hoie, Isis, 1828, p. 320. 

 Saxicola levaillautii, Smith, III. Zoul. S. Afr. Birds, letterpress to 



pi. xxviii. (1839). 

 Saxicola cinerea (Vieill.), Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 179 (1840); Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 105 (1867); 'Gray, Hund-l. B. i. p. 226. no. '3249 



(1869) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 26 (1871) ; Blanf Sf Dress. P. Z. 



S. 1874, p. 235; Sharpe, ed. La))ard:s B. S. Afr. p. 242 (1877). 

 Dromolsea cinerea ( Vieill.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 302 (1850) ; Sundev. K. 



Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. ii. no. 3, p. 45 (1857). 

 Erithacus sclilegelii, Wahl. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh. 1855, p. 213. 

 Saxicola modesta, Tristram, Ibis, 1809, p. 206 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 225. no. 3237 (1869). 

 Saxicola schlegelii (Wahl.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 225. no. 3236 



(1869) ; Sharp>e, Cat. Afr. B. p. 27 (1871) ; Gurney, Anderss. B. 



Dam. Ld. p. 104 (1872) ; Blanf S,- Dress. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 236, 



pi. xxxix. iig. 2 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard^s B. S. Afr. p. 237 (1876). 



Wing of Myrmecocichla cinerea. 



General colour of the upper parts dull pale slate-grey ; lores and 

 ear-coverts brown ; eye-stripe dull white, obscure, not extending 

 beyond the lores ; wings brown ; wing-coverts brown, margined 

 with pale slate-grey ; secondaries and innermost secondaries nar- 

 rowly margined with white at the tips : rump and upper tail-coverts 

 white ; two centre tail-feathers entirely dark brown, the outer web 

 of each succeeding feather having more and more white at the base 

 until, in the outermost tail-feather on each side, the whole outside 

 web is white ; underparts greyish white, shading into white on the 

 vent and under tail-coverts ; axillaries and under wing- coverts 

 white, with concealed dusky bases ; inner margin of quills pale 

 brown. Bill, legs, feet, and claws black. Wings with the third, 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries nearly equal and longest ; seventh 

 primary much shorter ; second primary intermediate in length be- 

 tween the sixth and seventh, and conspicuously emarginated at the 



