Sho7't Notices of Ornltholor/ical Pahlicatlons. Gl 



Female : Length 89 mm. ; wing 49 ; tail 24 ; tarsus 20; 

 culmen 9'5. Waterfalls, Haenertsburg, 5th February, 1908. 

 (Iris tawny ; bill horn above, light brown below, tip darker. 

 Tarsus ashy-yellow. F. V. Kirby.) 



Male : Length 90 mm. ; wing 49-5 ; tail 24-5 ; tarsus 20; 

 culmen 9"5. Woodbush Forest Reserve, Zoutpansberg, 

 29th January, 1908. (L-is dark brown. Bill dark brown. 

 Tarsus light pinkish-yellow. Gape olive. F. V. Kirby.) 



These birds were collected by Mr. F. Vaughan-Kirby in 

 the north-central Transvaal. 



On a new Species of Cossypha from West Pondoland. By 

 Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, Director of the Transvaal Museum. 

 Among a collection of birds collected by H- H. Swinny at 

 Ngqeleni in West Pondoland, shot on 2n(l August, 1908, I 

 found a specimen which at first sight I took for Cossypha 

 b coloi' (Sparrm.). C'loser examination, however, showed 

 that I had to do with a new and very distinct species. In 

 hicolor the sides of the face, ear-coverts, and lores are black, 

 which is entirely abs;int in the new species, which I desire 

 to name after my assistant, Mr. A. K. Haagner, the energetic 

 Secretary of the South African Ornithologists' Union. 



Cossypha haagneki, sp. nov. 



Description : Adult female, above, including the crown 

 and wing-coverts, bluish slate-grey, merging into orange on 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts. Lores, a broad stripe over 

 the eyes, ear-coverts, under wing- and under tail-coverts and 

 entire under surface of the body uniform bright orange. 

 Back of the neck washed with orange-brown. Primaries 

 blackish, broadly margined with bluish-grey on the outer 

 web, except the first two, which are entirely black. Tail : 

 Outer feather inner web orange, outer web dark brown, 

 second, third, and fourth orange, fifth orange margined near 

 the tip with dark brown, middle feather entirely dark 

 brown. 



Bill black, iris brown, feet pinkish brown. 



