LIOPTILUS NIGRICAPILLUS. 343 
June, July, and October, and it has been sent to us from Blanco by 
Mr. W. Atmore, who states that it is very scarce in that neighbour- 
hood. We have received a specimen from the neighbourhood of 
Kingwilliamstown, from Lieut. H. Trevelyan. Mr. T. C. Atmore 
‘has collected several examples near Eland’s Post, and further north- 
ward in the Hastern Transvaal they are more often obtained. Mr. 
¥. A. Barratt found them common at the Macamac Gold-fields, and 
Mr. Thomas Ayres writes from Lydenburg as follows :—‘ These 
birds seem to appear in the spring and summer months, when they 
become tolerably plentiful, frequenting the thick forest; they are 
solitary, or at most in pairs, and in habits much resemble our 
Robin.” The sexes, when adult, appear to be perfectly alike, but 
the young birds are much duller in colour, and have the white spots 
- on the throat and above the eye scarcely perceptible. 
Adult male.—Above yellowish olive, the upper tal-coverts bright 
yellow; least wing-coverts olive like the back, the rest of the 
eoverts and quills blackish, externally blue grey inclining to silvery 
grey on the outermost greater coverts; tail yellow, with a broad 
black band at the tip, the outer feather externally blackish for the 
terminal half of the outer web, the two centre tail-feathers entirely 
black; head dull blue, including the sides of head and entire throat ; 
lores and feathers round the eye more dusky ; above the eye a large 
spot of silvery white, a spot of which is also apparent on the lower 
throat ; rest of under surface of body orange yellow, including the 
under wing and tail-coverts; thighs and outermost of the under 
wing-coverts light grey with whitish margins; “bill black; tarsi 
and feet dusky pale; iris dusky” (7. Ayres). Total length, 6°2 
inches; culmen, 0°5; wing, A°55; tail, 2°75; tarsus, 1:1. 
Fig. Le Vaill. Ois. d’Afr. pl. 157. 
301, Lropri.us NIGRICAPILLUS. Black-capped Bush-Flycatcher. 
Pycnonotus nigricapillus, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 140. 
Le Vaillant found this bird only in the forests of Bruintjes 
Hoogte, and even there sparingly. Major Bulger procured it in the 
neighbourhood of Windyogelberg. We ourselves saw it near the 
summit of the Kat-berg, and Mr. T. C. Atmore has sent us several 
specimens from Eland’s Post, Mr. H. Bowker has also forwarded it 
from the Transkeian region. Mr. Thomas Ayres writes from Natal; 
