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BRADYORNIS WOODWARDI. 403 
‘described by them will probably be found to be identical with 
Bradyornis pallidus, which inhabits Eastern and North-Eastern 
_ Africa, and occurs also on the west coast. It may be distin- 
guished by its uniform light brown colour, white throat, and 
fawn-coloured under wing-coverts. 
Adult male.—Above earthy brown or fawn greyish; wings dark 
brown, slightly edged with rufous brown along the outer web, for 
the basal half of the inner web clearer and broader reddish fawn ; 
secondary coverts externally edged with pale reddish fawn; from the 
base of the nostrils above the lores to the eye an indistinct reddish 
white streak, the eye surrounded with an ill-defined ring of the same; 
in front of the eye on the lores an obsolete dusky spot ; region of the 
ear fawn-reddish brown, like the sides of the neck, crop, breast, and 
sides ; under wing-coyerts clearer reddish isabelline fawn-colour ; chin, 
throat, lower part of the breast, vent, and under tail-coverts white, 
with a tinge of fawn colour; tail-feathers dark brown, externally and 
at the tips very slightly edged with pale reddish brown; bill and 
feet blackish horn-colour ; ‘‘iris chestnut-brown” (Anchieta). Total 
length, about 7 inches; wing, 3°9; tail, 2°10; bill, 6’; tarsus, 10’”. 
(Hartlaub and Finsch.) 
3086. Brapyornis woopwarpi, Sharpe. Woodward’s Wood-Shrike. 
A single specimen of this interesting bird was forwarded by the 
Messrs. Woodward to the British Museum, having been obtained by 
them on the Berea Hills, near Durban. It may be distinguished by 
its olive brown colour; the throat, breast, and under wing-coverts 
being pale yellowish buff with the abdomen whitish. 
Adult.—General colour above olive brown, the wing-coverts 
resembling the back; greater wing-coverts and quills ashy brown, 
edged with the olivaceous colour of the back, the secondaries 
resembling the latter, and having paler tips; tail-feathers ashy 
brown, margined with olivaceous; lores and an indistinct eyebrow 
buffy whitish; round the eye a ring of buffy white feathers; ear- 
coyerts light fulvous brown ; sides of neck washed with clear grey ; 
cheeks and under surface of body yellowish buff, whiter on the 
centre of the abdomen, the flanks darker and more ochraceous 
brown; under tail-coverts white, with dusky brown centres; under 
wing-coverts yellowish buff; quills below ashy brown, the inner 
webs ashy whitish along their inner edge; bill brown, lighter at 
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