184 On a Bush-Slir'ike from Cape Colony. 



'I lie ft)llo".^ing is a complete list of tlieni^ with dates and 

 sexes : — • 



S . Gonna, Knysna 10 5 98. 



$ . Salt River, Knysna 14/5/98. 



J adult. Craddocks liiis^li, Knysna 3/11/98. 



6- . \, H/10 99. 



d adult. Stoclibels Busb, „ 1 1/10/99. 



2 adult. „ „ 11 10/99. 



2 adult. Brick-kiln Bush, „ li' 10 09. 



(^ adult. Stockbels Bush, „ 1310 99. 



J adult. Craddocks Bush, „ KMOUO. 



J adult. Brick-kiln Bash, „ 11 1/99. 



J adult. Salt Biver, „ 20, 1 1/99. 



Mr. Marais tells me that he has found the sexual orgai;s 

 enlarged and obviously in use in most of these birds, and I 

 have no hesitation in considering the species new. 



From the adult L. rubiginosus the present bird differs 

 markedly in the absence of the white lores, of the black 

 stripe through the eye, and of the i)ale rufous breast. 

 Young examples of L. rubiginosus, although without the 

 black band through the eye, always have the throat and 

 breast slightly tinged with pale rufous, and the freckling of 

 the lower surface does not extend to the chin and throat ; 

 neither has L. rubiginosus, c\i\\vv in the young or adult stage, 

 the pale tips to the wing-coverts present in L. maraisi. 



1 have not been able to compare L. maraisi with the young- 

 stages of L. o/u'flce«5 for want of specimens, but the latter 

 is very rare in the Knysna, and has, in fact, been only once 

 obtained by Mr. Marais in that district; this being, so far 

 as I am able to ascertain, the first definite record of its 

 occurrence within the borders of the Cape Colony. 



[There are two skins in the Collection of the British 

 IMuseum which appear to be referable to this species, if 

 distinct, as Mr. W. L. Sclater believes. They have been 

 catalogued (B. M. C. viii. p. 161) as the young of L. rubi- 

 ginosus (specimens // and i). There is also a third recently 

 received from the Scebohm bequest. — Edd.] 



