90 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



112, Aedon Subcinnamomea (Smith). Kamiesberg Aedon. 



Drymoica subcinnamomea, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 111. fig. 1. 



Layard's Cat. No. 151. 



Drymceca subcinnamomea, Sharpe's Cat. No. 295. 



[Sir A. Smith, in his ' Illustrations of the Zoology of South 

 Africa ' (loc. cit.}, figures a single individual of this species, which 

 he obtained " on the top of one of the mountains of the Ka- 

 miesberg in Little Namaqua Land," a locality which brings the 

 species within the geographical range of the present volume. 

 I believe that this specimen is the same that is preserved in 

 the British Museum; and I only know one other example of 

 this species, which was obtained at Colesburg, and is now in 

 the collection of Mr. R. B. Sharpe, to whom it was sent by 

 Mr. Layard. 



Sir A. Smith has placed this species and the succeeding 

 one, which is very closely allied to it, in the genus Drymoica, 

 but with the following remark in his article on the present 

 species : " In its general aspect this bird has much of what 

 characterizes birds of the group Drymoica ; but when its indi- 

 vidual characters are closely surveyed it is found to want that 

 which would entitle it to be classed among typical species ; or, 

 in other words, it exhibits what requires it to be viewed as an 

 aberrant form/' 



Both this and the succeeding species appear to me to be more 

 nearly allied to the genus Aedon than to Drymoica -, and I have 

 therefore so arranged them, though not without some doubt as 

 to whether they ought not rather to be placed by themselves in 

 a separate and distinct genus. ED.] 



113. Aedon fasdolata (Smith). Easciolated Aedon. 



Drymoica fasciolata, Smith's Zool. of S. Africa, pi. 111. fig. 2. 



Layard's Cat. No. 148. 



Drymoeca fasciolata, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 398. 



Sharpe's Cat. No. 296. 



Aedon fasciolata, Gurney, in Ibis, 1871, p. 152. 



