^0 Mr. A. Haagner — Miscellaneous Notes. 



strongly tinged with yellowish ; sides o£ breast ."nd body and 

 flanks streaked with brown and washed with dusky ; centre 

 of abdomen and under tail-coverts white, slightly washed 

 with pale yellow. 



Young male. — Like the female, but browner (less yellow) 

 above, and greyer below. 



Description of anew Bradypterus //-om West Pondoland. 



Bradypterus pondoensis, sp. nov. 



Resembling Brady^Aerus sylvaticus, Sund., but smaller and 

 of an olive-brown tinge, more on the olive side, whereas 

 sylvaticus is more inclined to the russet ; flanks and under 

 tail-coverts yellower than those of sylvaticus. 



This is a closely related form of sylvaticus ; the latter has 

 hitherto only been definitely recorded from Knysna, Cape 

 Colony (by Victorin). The Transvaal Museum possesses two 

 specimens of sylvaticus collected by J. v. 0. Marais, and in 

 Mr. Lionel Taylor^'s private collection are two more collected 

 by himself — all four from Knysna. 



Description. — Above dark brown, with an olive tinge (much 

 darker than in sylvaticus), more olive on the sides of the 

 neck. All the wing-feathers (except the primaries) brown, 

 edged with rusty olive ; chin and throat dirty white, speckled 

 with grey, owing to the bases of the feathers being whitish 

 and the tips grey ; sides of body smoky grey, inclining to 

 yellowish on the flanks; under tail-coverts grey-brown tipped 

 with yellowish white, the shorter ones being more brightly 

 yellow ; centre of lower breast and abdomen whitish, almost 

 pure white in Hie middle ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 greyish, shaded and tipped with pale yellow, those on the outer 

 edge brownish tipped with yellowish ; lores dusky, above 

 which a whitish " commencement of an eyebrow; tail dark 

 brown, indistinctly banded with transverse stripes, which are 

 only discernible in certain lights. 



Length 140 mm.; wing 60 ; tail 56; tarsus 20 ; culmen 13. 



