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a rocky nature, as also to abandoned " werfts" and villages. 

 It is rather a voracious feeder, preying on all kinds of 

 insects, from the minutest beetle to the scorpion, of 

 which I have found specimens in its stomach; it also 

 occasionally eats soft seeds. 



The iris is reddish brown ; the legs and toes bluish 

 black, as also is the bill, but with the base of the gape 

 yellow. 



[This species has not yet been figured ; seven specimens 

 obtained at Objimbinque by Mr. Andersson are now in the 

 collection of Mr. R. B. Sharpe. ED.] 



148. Chsetops pycnopyghis (Sclat.). Damara Chaetops. 



Sphenceacus pycnopyyius, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. 



Orn. 1852, p. 148, pi. 102. 



Drymceca anchietce, Bocage, in Jorn. Acad. Lisb. 1868, p. 41. 

 Chcetops anchietce, Bocage, in Jorn. Acad. Lisb. 1868, p. 351. 

 Chatops Grayi, Sharpe, in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1869, pi. 14. 

 Chcetops pycnopyyius, Sharpe's Cat. No. 226. 



The only places where I can recollect having caught 

 a glimpse of this rarely seen Rock-Thrush are the Kaaru 

 River, Ongari Ombo, near Jacongana, Okamalute, and, 

 lastly, the Omaruru River, where I obtained one specimen 

 on October 30th, 1866, which I found hopping about 

 amongst some stones thickly overgrown with bush and 

 coarse grass, and strewn with decaying wood. As soon 

 as the bird perceived that it was observed, it imme- 

 diately slipped into the thickest part of this tangled bush, 

 and for some time I thought I had lost it ; but after 

 pelting it with stones it flew out and settled on the lower 

 branch of a small acacia. I found, when shot, that its 



