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CHETOPS AURANTIUS. PALL?) 
on all the mountains that he has been up. He says that they nest in 
the crevices of the rocks, and that their eggs resemble those of the 
Cape Robin (Cossypha caffra) but are larger. 
It frequents the tops of the hills and high elevations on their 
stony sides, and seeks its food, consisting of insects, about stones 
and rocks. In habits it much resembles the Rock-Thrush, and, like 
it, is fond of perching on the summit of some conspicuous stone or 
ant-hill, from which it surveys the surrounding prospect, and seeks 
for safety by immediate flight on perceiving the approach of a foe. 
It progresses by a series of enormous hops, its powerful legs being 
well suited to this end; while its strong pointed claws enable it to 
traverse with ease the inclined surfaces of slippery rocks. It con- 
ceals itself readily in holes, and, if wounded, seeks such a retreat in 
which to die. It is generally found in small families of three or four 
individuals. 
Upper parts of head and back, ash-coloured, the centre of each 
feather being very dark ; rump, chest, and belly, bright red-brown ; 
yent and thighs ash-coloured; head with a white eyebrow and 
moustache ; throat and cheeks black ; wings black-brown, some of 
the feathers edged with rufous ash; secondaries tipped with white, 
causing the wing to appear crossed with a white bar; shoulders 
spotted with white, a few spots of the same colour between the 
white bar and the shoulder; tail-feathers, with the exception of the 
centre pair, tipped with white; legs, claws, and bill, black; eye 
bright-red ; plumage very lax and fluffy, particularly about the 
rump; on being raised on this spot, it will be found to be ash- 
coloured, like the back, the rufous tint being quite superficial. 
Length, 9”; wing, 3” 7’”; tail, 3” 7”; tarsus, 1” 7’". 
Fig. Temm. Pl. Col. 385. 
201. Cumrors avrantivs. Orange-breasted Rock-Babbler. 
(Pirate VI.) 
This species, which we characterised as distinct in our first 
edition, was at first identified by European ornithologists as C. fre- 
natus, but as we were at the time in possession of a series of both 
species, containing adult and young birds of both sexes, we affirmed 
the distinction of C. awrantius, and the information received since 
