no BIRDS OF DAM All A LAND. 



disturbed it will return times without number, after 

 such excursions, to the same perch. 



The iris in this species is dark brown. 



[This species has not been figured. — Ed,] 



135. Saxicola Atmorii, Tristr. Atmore's Wheatear. 

 Saxicola Atmorii, Tristram, in Ibis, 18G9, p. 20G. 



„ „ Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 32.3o. 



Saxicola Atmorei, Sliarpe's Cat. No. 244. 



[Mr. Andersson's last collection contained several specimens 

 of this new Wheatear^ obtained at Objimbinque and Hykomkap ; 

 and from these it was described by Mr. Tristram in the * Ibis ' 

 as cited above, but has not yet been figured. 



Mr. Andersson^s notes furnish no account of this species, 

 except the following measurements of a female :— 



in. lin. 



Entire length 7 3 



Length of folded wing 4 1 



„ tarsus 12 



,, middle toe 8 



tail 2 8i 



bill lOi —Ed.] 



136. MyrmecOCichla formicivora (Yieill.). Southern Ant-cating 

 WTieatear. 



Le Traquct fonrmilier, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afi-. pis. 180 & 187. 

 Myrmecocichla formicivora, Layard's Cat. No. 205. 

 Saxicola formicivora, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 399. 

 Myrmecocichla formicivora, Sharpe's Cat. No. 239. 



I have met with this species, though only sparingly, 

 in Damara Land, and in the parts adjacent to the north 

 and east, but 1 do not recollect having seen it in Great 

 Namaqua Land. It always occurs in pairs in open 

 localities interspersed with bush, on which, or on ant- 



