]0. MVRMKCOC'IC:iLA. .'^59 



tip on the inner wol} ; bastard primary 0-S to O'O inch. Longth 

 of wing 3-8o to 3-7 inches (females 3"6 to 3-3), tail 2-7 to 2-3, 

 culnicn ()-7 to 0-61, tarsus 1-2 to 1-05. 



The female differs from the male only in being smaller in size, and 

 has been described as a different species. After the autumn moult 

 the general colour of the plnmage is browner, less sand}'. Birds 

 of the year and young in first plumnye appear to be unknown. 



The Lesser Sickle-winged Chat-Robin is found in Damara Land and 

 Great Namaqua Land, extending southwards as far as the Karroo in 

 Cape Colony. It is not known to bo migratory. 



n. (J ad. sk. Great Namaqua Land. C. J. Andersson, Esq. [C], 



b. cJ ad. .fk. Otjimbinque, Damara Land, R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



'May :',0, 1860 (C. J. An- 



derK!<oH). 

 c-f. 2ad.sk. Otjimbinque, Aug. 1803 (C. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



J. An(h'rsso7i). 



5. Myrmecocichla sinuata. 



Luscinia sinuata, Sundev. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. llandl. ii. no. -3, p. 44, 



note (1857). 

 Saxicola sinuata (Sundev.), Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 108 (1807) ; Ay res, 



Ibis, 1871, p. 155; Sharjie, Cat. Afr. B. p. 27 (1871); Blaiif. ^ 



Dress. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 238 ; Sfiarjje, ed. Lm/ard's B. S. Afr. 



p. 236 (1876). 

 Aedou sinuata [Sundev.), Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 211. no. 2987 (1869). 

 Ruticilla (Erythacus) sinuata {Sundev.}, Bkinf. Ann. Kat. Hist. 



1869, iv. p. 329. 



Wiug of Myrmecocichla sinuata. 



Adult male in breediny-plumar/e. General colour of the upper 

 parts, brown, scarcely darker on the lores, and shading into chestnut 

 on the rump and dark chestnut on the upper tail-coverts ; ear-coverts 

 russet-brown ; wings brown, the wing-covcrts and secondaries edged 

 with pale huffish brown ; tail brown, nearly the whole of the out- 

 side web and the basal half of the inside web of the outside tail- 

 feather on each side pale dull chestnut, the amount of chestnut 

 lessening on each succeeding feather until the two centre feathers 

 arc entirely brown for the terminal two thirds ; underjjarts pale 

 grey, browner on the breast, and suffused with chestnut on the flanks 

 and under tail-coverts ; axillaries, under wing-coverts, and inner 

 margin of quills pale buffish grey. Bill, legs, feet, and claws black. 

 Wings with the tliird to the sixth primaries nearly equal and longest ; 

 second primai-y intermediate in length between the sixth and seventh, 

 and omarginated at the tip to such an extent (hat for from an eighth 



