by Mr. Claiulc Grunt in South Africa. 305 



Apalis cl.vuj)ei. (Plate IV. fig. 2.) 



W. Sclater, i5ull. 13. (). C. xxvii. Nov. 1910, p. 15. 



CC. Kny.sna, Jan. (3) ; Plettenberg- Bay, Mch. (1). 



Hitherto two quite distinct spe(;ies liave been confused 

 under the name of A. tJioracica. The ditlerences between 

 the two are briefly as follows. 



A. ciaudei. — Above dark shaty grey throughout, with the 

 faintest perceptible wasli of olive ; ear-coverts slightly paler 

 than the back, a black spot iu front of the eye ; below, 

 throat white separated from the abdomen by a black transverse 

 hand ; remaining under parts white in the centre, olive- 

 brown on the flanks and under tail-coverts. Tail with two or 

 three outer tail-feathers tipped with while, the outei'uiost 

 chiefly white. 



Length about 130 mm., wing 50, tail 57, tai'sus 20, culmen 

 13. 



Type from Plettenberg Bay, a nuile killed ^larch 12, 

 1905. 



This species differs from A. thorucica in having the back 

 dark slaty grey instead of olive-green and in the entire 

 absence of any yellow on the lower side ; the dimensions 

 seem very similar. The sexes in both species are alike, 

 and the young birds differ from the adults in the absence 

 of the bhick chest-band. 



In additicni to those mentioned above, the British Museum 

 contains examples of this new species from Knysna 

 (^Andersson, Dec. 2nd, 1865) and Grahamstown; while 

 of A. tlioracica there are examples from Port Elizabeth 

 (/?k/ta?Y/j, King William^s Town (Treveluan, May), Pinetown 

 [Ayres, Mch., May, July, Oct., Nov., Dec), the Drakens- 

 berg {Butler, Aug.), Macamac {Barratt), and Rustenburg 

 {Ayres). 



Apalis thorucica was founded on '' Le plastroii noir" 

 of Levaillant, whose plate and description, as also those of 

 Shaw and Nodder and Swainson, obviously refer to the 

 yellow-bellied form from the east of Cape Colony and Natal. 

 I have found no name to apply to the white-bellied form, 

 and am therefore naming it after Claude Grant. 



