by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 297 



Tlie soft parts are : — Trides reddish brown ; bill brownish ; 

 legs and toes slate-coloured.] 



224. Chlorocichla occidentalis. 



P. Coguno, June (1) ; lieira, Jan. (1) ; Tambarara, 

 July (2). 



I cau see no distinction between the type of this species, 

 described by Sharpe from Ovaqiienyama in Northern 

 Damaraland, birds from the Upper and Lower Zambesi 

 Valley, Nyasalaud, and the examples here catalogued. In 

 this I am in agreement with Reichenow. Shelley separated 

 the Zambesi Valley birds as C. zanibesice. 



[This is the Eastern and Northern representative of 

 C. flaviventris, and differs nowise from that species in call 

 or habits. The soft parts are also similar.] 



226. Phyllastrephus terrestris. 



Phyllastrephus capensis Stark & Sclater, Bds. S. Afr. ii. 

 p. 71. 



CC. Knysna, Dec, Jan. (2) ; N, Illovo, Nov. (1) ; 

 Z. Sibudeni, Nov., Dec, Jan. (6). 



Owing to the fact that Mr. Richmond has discovered that 

 Swaiuson's 'Birds of West Africa^ was published three 

 months previously to his ' Classification of Birds/ the name 

 of this species has to be changed from C. capensis to 

 P. terrestris. Both names, proposed by the same author, 

 are founded on " le Jaboteur" of LevailUmt. 



A nestling hardly free from down is almost exactly similar 

 to the adult in coloration. 



[I have noted this bird from Kuysna, Natal, and Zulu- 

 land. It is essentially a Avoodland species, and is usually 

 lound in small parties ; it frequents the thick undergrowth, 

 spending much of its time on the ground and scraping among 

 the dead leaves, the rustle of which I have often mistaken 

 for that of some large animal moving about. Unless dis- 

 turbed it is silent, but when alarmed it utters a loud harsh 

 note of " churr churr'' (the r's being rolled), constantly 

 repeated by the whole party. 



The soft parts are : — Irides reddish brown ; bill brown, 

 base of lower mandible slaty ; legs and toes livid.] 



