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intermediate in length between tbe seventh and eighth, occasio- 

 nally between the eighth and ninth, and occasionally equal to 

 the seventh. ßastard-primary narrow, sometimes half as long as 

 the second primary, but geuerally less than half. Legs dusky 

 brown, feet and claws reddish brown. Iris pale chrome-yellow, 

 Tarsus scutellated in front. Length of wing 2,36 — 2,27 inches; 

 tail 1,95 — 1,86; culmeu 0,52—0,50; tarsus 0,73. Tail feathers 

 twelwe, of which the outer ones are from 0,20 to 0,15; shorter 

 than the longest. There appears to be no difference in the sexes. 

 Hab.: Rustenburg, Transvaal. 



130. Eremomela lixj'poxantlia. 



A. V. Pelz ein, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien 1881 p. 145. 



E. corpore supra et alarum tectricibus superioribus brunnes- 

 cente olivaceis, loris nigricantibus, remigibus brunneis, posterio- 

 ribus olivaceo marginatis, secunda inter quintam et sextam inter- 

 media, gastraeo toto cum subalaribus pallide sulphureo flavo, 

 caudae rectrieibus brunneis, albo terminatis, mediis nitore viridi 

 et striis transversis nigris obsoletis , rostro pedibusque nigris. 

 Longit. 4", alae 2", caudae 1" 3'", rostri a fronte 4'"; a rictu 6'", 

 tars. 6'" 



Ab E. sGoto-pi Sundev. statura minore et proportione remigum 

 diversa (in *S. scotopi remige secunda septimam aequante). E. hemi- 

 xanthae Seebohm (Ibis 1879) similis sed minor et remige secunda 

 inter 5. et 6., dcc inter 7. et 8. vel 8. et 9. vel 7. aequali differt. 

 Rectrices duae extimae solum i''' breviores quam longissimae. 



Hab.: Central- Africa. 



131. Malurus cy anochlamy s. 



Bowdler Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1881 No. III p. 788. 



M. cyaneus Sharpe Cat. B. IV p. 286 (nee Ellis). 



Ad. ?. Similar to M. cyaneus of Nev7 South Wales, and like 

 that species, having the head, ear coverts, and mantle of the same 

 tint, but the blue much lighter, pale, and of a silvery cobalt, 

 instead of the deep cobalt-blue of M. cyaneus. The mantle is 

 also smaller and more circumscribed. 



Hab.: Moreton Bay. 



132. Ortygocichla gen. nov. ex fam. Timeliidarum. 

 Sclater; P. Z. S. 1881 No. II p. 452. 



Dasyornitld forsan affine, sed rostro compresso elongato, 

 vibrissis rictus nullis, aut saltem vix conspicuis et frontis plumis 

 exstantibus diversum ; uropygium valde plumosum ; alae modicae 

 rotundatae, rem. quarto et sequentibus ad nonum inter se fere 

 aequalibus; pedes validiusculi, digitis amplis; cauda rectrieibus XII, 

 valde graduatis. 



133. 0. ruhiginosa. 

 Sclater, 1. c. pl. XXXIX. 



Supra terreno-fusca, alis et cauda extus rufescentibus ; fronte, 

 superciliis, capitis lateribus et corpore medio subtus ferrugineo- 

 rubris; hypochondriis dorso concoloribus ; rostro nigro, pedibus 



