14. BRADYORXIS. 311 



faintly washed with rufous ou the upper tail-coverts ; lores eonspi- 

 cuously dull white ; round the eye a ring of isabelline feathers ; 

 ear-coverts lifi^ht brown, with paler shafts to the feathers ; cheeks 

 brown, the feathers below the eye mottled with white ; throat dull 

 white, shaded with brown, especially on the sides ; fore neck and 

 breast pale isabelline brown ; rest of under surface duU whitish, 

 inclining to fawn-colour on the vent and under tail-coverts ; flanks 

 also pale fawn-colour ; under wing-coverts light fawn, the inner 

 edges of the quills rufous fawn-colour; wings above brown, the 

 coverts with paler whity -brown edges to the feathers, the pri- 

 maries externall}' edged with rufous fawn-colour, shading into 

 fulvous towards the tips of the quiUs, the secondaries externally 

 margined with whity brown ; tail brown, the feathers edged with 

 paler brown near the base ; " bill brown, paler towards the base of 

 the lower mandible ; tarsi and feet brown ; irides brown " (Shelley). 

 Total length 6-4 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-35, tail 2-85, tarsus 

 0-85. (Mus. G. E. Shelleij.) 

 Hah. Gold Coast. 



4. Bradyornis woodwardi. (Plate XIV.) 



Adult. General colour above olive-brown, the wing-coverts re- 

 sembling the back ; greater wing-coverts and quills ashy brown, 

 edged with the olivaceous colour of the back, the secondaries 

 resembling the latter, and having paler tips ; tail-feathers ashy 

 brown, margined with olivaceous ; lores and an indistinct eyebrow 

 buffy whitish ; round the eye a ring of buffy white feathers ; ear- 

 coverts light fulvous brown ; sides of neck washed with clear grey ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body yellowish buff, whiter on the 

 centre of the abdomen, the flanks darker and more ochraceous 

 brown ; under taH-coverts white, with dusky brown centres ; under 

 wing-coverts yellowish buff; quills below ashy brown, the inner 

 webs ashy whitish along their inner edge ; bill brown, lighter at 

 base of lower mandible; feet brown (in skin). Total length 5"S 

 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3-2.5, tail 2'4, tarsus O'So. 



Hab. Natal. 



a. Ad. sk. Berea Hills, near Durban, Natal. Messrs. Woodward [P.]- 



5. Bradyornis chocolatina. 



Muscicapa chocolatina, Biipp. Neue Tfirh. p. 107 ; id. Si/st. Uehcrs. 



Taf. 20 ; Guerin et De Lafrem. in Ferr. et Galin. Voy. Abyss, ii. 



p. 211, pi. 7 ; Ifcuyl. SysL Uebcr.'i. p. 31. 

 Muscicapa fiimigata, Guerin, Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 161. 

 Curruca chocolatina, Rilpp. Syst. TJebers. p. 37, Taf. 14 ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 294. 

 Butalis chocolatina, Bp. Cun,sp. i. p. 318. 

 Sylvia chocolatina, Hetigl. Syst. Uehers. p. 25. 

 Bradj'ornis chocolatina, Finsch i<f Hartl. Viiq. Ostafr. p. 323, note ; 



Heugl. Orn. K.-O. Aft: p. 429; B/anf. Ge'ol. 8,- Zool. Abyss, p. 34G. 

 Melrenornis chocolatina, Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 288. 



Adult. General colour above ashy chocolate-brown, the wing- 



