by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 415 



I liave only secured it fi'om the Inluirabanc district. In 

 liabits it greatly resembles Tarsiger stellatus. 



The soft parts are : — Trides hazel ; bill black ; legs and 

 toes brown.] 



833. CossYPHA CAFFllA. 



CC. Table Mt. slopes, Jan. Feb. (5) ; Tokai, Feb. (2) ; 



Durban Rd., Mch., Sept. (3) ; Plettcnbero- 15ay, Mch. (J) ; 



Tv. Zuurbron Meh., May (2) ; Wakkerstrooni, Apl. (1) ; 

 AVuodbush, jNIay, June (2); Ijegogot/Apl. (1). 



CoSSYPHA CAPFRA NAMAQUENSIS, Subsp. UOV. 



CC. Klipfontein, June (1). 



This form of the Cape Robin differs from the ty[)ical form 

 commonly found throughout Southern Caj)e Colony and 

 Natal in the great extension of the Avhite on the sides of the 

 head ; instead of forming a compr.ratively inconspicuous 

 eyebrow, it makes a broad band on either side of the head 

 from the base of tlie bill over the eye to above the ear- 

 coverts, where there is a very conspicuous wdiite jiatcli ; this 

 at once distinguishes it from the common Cape Town form ; 

 and except that the orange-rufous of the throat and chest is 

 of a slightly darker and richer shade, as was noticed l)y 

 Sharpe when examining the Deelfontein bird (' Ibis,' ICOi, 

 ]). 322), there does not seem to be any other appi-ecialjle 

 difference. 



Only a single exatnple Avas procured by Grant. This, 

 the type of the subspecies, is a female from Klipfuntein, 

 Namaqualand, dated June 19, 1903. 



I have found two other specimens in the British Museum, 

 One of these, also a female, was obtained previously by 

 Claude Grant at Deeliontein in July; the other, a male, 

 is labelled " tlopetown, Atmore." 



Measurements of the type : length 170 mm., wing 81), tail 

 80, culinen 12, tarsus 27 ; of the Hopetown male, length 

 18G mm., wing 87, tail 90, culmen 12, tarsus 27. 



The Xamaqualand Robin-Chat doubtless replaces the Cape 

 Robin-Chat in the valley of the Orange River and in 

 Northern and North-AVestern Cape Colony. 



