110 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



disturbed it will return times without number, after 

 such excursions, to the same perch. 



The iris in this species is dark brown. 



[This species has not been figured. ED.] 



135. Saxicola Atmorii, Tristr. Atmore's Wheatear. 

 Saxicola Atmorii, Tristram, in Ibis, 1869, p. 206. 



Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 3235. 



Saxicola Atmorei, Sharpe's Oat. No. 244. 



[Mr. Andersson's last collection contained several specimens 

 of this new Wheatear, obtained at Objimbinque and Hykomkap ; 

 and from these it was described by Mr. Tristram in the ( Ibis ' 

 as cited above, but has not yet been figured. 



Mr. Andersson's notes furnish no account of this species, 

 except the following measurements of a female : 



in. lin. 



Entire length 73 



Length of folded wing 41 



tarsus 12 



,, middle toe ..... 8 



tail 2 8 



bill 10* ED.] 



136. Myrmecocichla formicivora (Vieill.). Southern Ant-eating 

 Wheatear. 



Le Traquetfourmilier, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pis. 186 & 187. 

 Myrmecocichla formicivora, Layard's Cat. No. 205. 

 Saxicola formicivora, Chapman's Travels in S. Afr., App. p. 399. 

 Myrmecocichla fo?'micivora, Sharpe's Cat. No. 239. 



I have met with this species, though only sparingly, 

 in Damara Land, and in the parts adjacent to the north 

 and east, but I do not recollect having seen it in Great 

 Namaqua Land. It always occurs in pairs in open 

 localities interspersed with bush, on which, or on ant- 



