354 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
The males are said to be very quarrelsome, and to fight with con- 
siderable ferocity and tenacity.” 
Senor Anchieta states that it is called “ Mucombia” by the natives 
of Humbe, on the Cunene River, and the same traveller has met 
with it at Caconda in Benguela, and at Biballa in Mossamedes : here 
it is called “ Katambuixe.” 
Adult male.—General colour above bright chestnut, the tail en- 
tirely chestnut with dark red shafts: wing-coverts also chestnut like 
the back, the primary-coverts and quills blackish on the inner web, 
chestnut on the outer one, the innermost secondaries entirely chest- 
nut like the back: head, which is much crested, glossy steel-green, 
as well as the sides of the face and the throat: rest of under surface 
of body leaden grey, the steel-green colour of the throat descending 
on to the fore-neck, the feathers of which are edged with the Jatter 
colour: thighs, vent and under tail-coverts pure white : under wing- 
coverts and axillaries white, slightly washed with chestnut near the 
base, coverts near the edge of the wing dull chestnut mottled with 
brown bases to the feathers: lower surface of quills blackish, the 
inner web reddish along the edge: “bill grey tipped with black, 
wattled eyelids of a bright greyish blue: legs grey: iris dark 
brown.” (Shelley.) Total length, 14 inches; culmen, 0°7; wing, 
3:25; tail, 3°5; long central tail-feathers, 11:2 ; tarsus, 0°65. 
Adult female.—Differs from the male in wanting the two long 
tail-feathers. The colours are altogether duller and paler, the head 
dusky leaden grey, and the throat and under-surface dull grey with 
no green gloss anywhere, excepting a little on the crown, the chest 
slightly washed with brown on the sides: soft parts in the female as 
_ in the male. Total length, 6 inches ; culmen, 0°7; wing, 3°05 ; tail, 
3:2; tarsus, 0°65. 
Fig. Le Vaill. Ois. @Afr., pls. 142, 148. 
341,.—TROCHOCERCUS CYANOMELAS. Grey-mantled Flycatcher. 
Tehitrea cyanomelas, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 146. 
Le Vaillant found this bird in the forests of Outeniqua Land, and 
in the mimosa groves of Kaffraria, and it seems to be tolerably 
plentiful at the Knysna, where the late Mr. Andersson procured 
many specimens, and where Victorin also met with it between May 
and September. Mr. L. C. Layard found it breeding near Groote- 
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