226 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
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not a definite eyebrow, but has a white streak extending just over 
the fore part of the eye; the ear-coverts are orange; the tail 
orange, and the head, bluish-grey. 
Adult. (Type of species.)—General colour above, light yellowish- 
brown, shading off into orange on the rump and upper tail-coverts, 
the latter being bright orange; crown of head slaty-grey; the 
feathers in front of and over the fore part of the eye, white; lores, 
blackish ; cheeks, ear-coverts and entire under surface of body, 
bright orange; the centre of the abdomen, white; under wing- 
coverts, pale orange; wing-coverts coloured like the back and 
margined externally with orange ; quills, dark brown, the primaries 
externally washed with ashy-grey, the secondaries with yellowish- 
brown like the back; tail imperfect, the two feathers remaining 
bright orange; bill, black; feet, brown ; iris, brown. ‘Total length, 
65 inches; culmen, 0°6; wing, 32; tail, 2°8; tarsus, 1:0. (Mus. 
Lisb.) 
210. CossypPHA BARBATA. Bearded Chat-Thrush. 
This fine species, which has more the appearance of an Aedon 
than a Cossypha, was met with by Senor Anchieta at Caconda in 
Benguela and we are indebted to our friend Professor Barboza du 
Bocage for the loan of the type specimen, which will be figured in his 
forthcoming work on the birds of South-Western Africa. 
Like C. heuglini, the present species has a very distinct white 
eyebrow, but is distinguished by its white throat, in which it 
resembles (. humeralis. From the latter, however, it differs in its 
white wing-spot and rufous ear-coverts, besides many other minor 
particulars. The following is a detailed description of the type- 
specimen. 
Adult.—Above, ashy-brown; the rump and upper tail-coverts, 
pale orange-rufous; forehead slightly tinged with rufous; lores 
and a short eyebrow as well as a ring of feathers round 
the eye, white, with a narrow margin of black running above 
the white eyebrow; feathers in front of the eye, blackish; ear- 
coverts, dull sandy-rufous; cheeks and throat, white, with a long 
moustachial streak of dull grey, extending on each side of the 
throat for its whole length; breast and sides of the body, pale 
orange, inclining to buff on the centre of the chest and shading off 
