234 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
and somewhat of the Flycatcher’s wavering flight when it left the 
bush and settled on the ground close by, apparently in search of 
some insect.” 
According to the late Mr. Andersson’s notes this species is 
“ found abundantly in Great Namaqua Land, and also occurs ina 
few localities in Southern Damara Land; it is found singly or in 
pairs in open localities interspersed with low bush. It is extremely 
wary and difficult to approach; perched on the top of a conspicuous 
bush it quickly espies the hunter, and immediately takes its 
departure ; it does not fly far at a time, but always takes care to be 
beyond the range of the gun. It feeds on insects, which it catches 
on the wing or on the ground, but it never stays on the ground to 
search for them there.” Mr. Monteiro shot 4 specimen in Benguela. 
It places its well-made cup-shaped nest in the bottom of a dense 
bush; the eggs, three to five in number, well-marked and hand- 
some, are light verditer blue in colour, much speckled with rather 
large reddish-brown spots and blotches, sometimes forming a ring 
at the obtuse end. Axis, 11’’’; diam. 8’”. ' 
General colour, rusty brown; chin and throat of a dirty white; 
under parts grey, more or less tinted with yellowish-brown; wing 
and tail-feathers with a dash of umber-brown about them ; the latter 
and the wing-coverts are more or less edged with dirty-white; tail 
square; iris black. Length, 7” 6”’; wing, 4” 9” ; tail, 3’’ 6'’’. 
Fig. Smith, Ill. Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pl. 28. 
a. Back in the males neither black nor cinereous. 
220. SaxIcoLA GALTONI. Familiar Chat. 
Sazicola sperata, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 107. 
In the arrangement of the Chats in the present work, recourse 
has been had to a monographic essay by Messrs. Blanford and 
Dresser, published in the ‘ Proceedings ” of the Zoological Society 
for 1874. The present species belongs to the section of the genus 
Sazicola which have the interscapulary region similarly colowred to 
the wing-coverts, according to the classification of the above- 
named gentlemen. It is the bird usually known to naturalists as 
Saaicola familiaris or S. sperata, but for the reasons stated by the 
authors of the above-named paper, neither of these titles can be 
employed. 
