216 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
aberrant member of the genus. Having sent the type to England 
for the purpose of being figured in his new work, I enjoyed the 
opportunity of examining it, and I find that, although closely allied 
to Crateropus and to Cichladusa, it differs from both m the short- j 
ness of the first primary, which does not nearly equal the tarsus in ) 
length, whereas in both the above-named genera this quill is as 
long or even longer than the tarsus. Again the upper tail-coverts — 
are extremely long, falling short of the tip of the tail only by 14 
times the length of the tarsus, whereas in the other two genera the 
distance between the tip of the upper tail-coverts and that of the — 
tail itself is more than double the length of the tarsus. I therefore — 
propose the name of Neocichla for it. R. B. S.J 
Only one specimen of this bird is known at present, the typical — 
one in the Lisbon Museum, procured by Senor Anchieta at Huilla — 
in Mossamedes. The following description is from that specimen. 
Adult female (type of species)—Head and neck grey; back and — 
scapulars brown, with “straw-coloured margins to the feathers ; } 
lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ashy, somewhat inclining 
to creamy brown; wing-coverts brown glossed with purple, the 
outer ones purplish black; quills purplish black, shading off into © 
brown at the tips, the secondaries externally white, forming a broad 54 
longitudinal bar down the wing, the innermost brown, edged with | 
fulvous inclining to white at the tip ; tail purplish black tipped with 
white, more broadly on the outer feathers, the two centre ones paler 
brown, a shade of this colour being also apparent on the inner webs — 
of most of the others; entire sides of face and throat light grey, — 
rather paler than on the crown and shading off into a black patch on — 
the fore-neck, the lower feathers of which are edged with fulvous; ‘ 
rest of under surface orange buff, inclining to white in the centre of — 
the abdomen and under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts like the 
breast ; bill black; iris, bright yellow. Total length, 8 imches; — 
culmen, 0°8; wing, 4:2; tail, 3°6; tarsus, 1-2. 
200. Crmrors FRENATUS. Rufous-breasted Rock-Babbler. 
This bird is, as far as we yet know, peculiar to mountain ranges. 
We have seen it between Caledon and Swellendam, in How-Hoghte, 
and once in Bains Kloof on the Wellington side. Mr. W. Atmore, 
however, declares that it is more widely distributed, and is common 
