110 BIRDS OF DA2IAEA LAND. 



disturbed it will return times without number, after 

 such excursions, to the same perch. 



The iris in this species is dark brown. 



[This species has not been figured. — Ed.] 



135. Saxicola Atmorii, Tristr. Atmore's Wheatear. 



Saxicola Atmorii, Tristram, in Ibis, 1869, p. 206. 



„ „ Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 3236. 



Saxicola Atniorei, Sharpe's Cat. No. 244. 



[Mr. Andersson's last collection contained several specimens 

 of this new Wheatear, obtained at Objimbinque and Hykomkap ; 

 and from these it was described by Mr. Tristram in the ' Ibis ' 

 as cited above, but has not yet been figured. 



Mr. Andersson's notes furnish no account of this species, 

 except the following measurements of a female :— 



in, lin. 



Entire length 7 3 



Length of folded wing 4 1 



,, tarsus . . . . .12 



„ middle toe 8 



„ tail 2 8i 



bill lOi — Ed.J 



136. MyrmeCOCichla formicivora (Vieill.). Southern Ant-eating 

 Wheatear. 



Ze Traquet fourmilier, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr, pis. 186 & 187. 

 Myrmecooichla formicivora, Layard's Oat. No. 205. 

 Saxicola formicivora. Chapman's Travels in S. Air., App. p. 399. 

 Myrmeco(Achla formicivora, Sharpe's Cat. No. 239. 



I have met with this species, though only sparingly, 

 in Damara Land, and in the parts adjacent to the north 

 and east, but 1 do not recollect having seen it in Great 

 Namaqua Land. It always occurs in pairs in open 

 localities interspersed with bush, on which, or on ant- 



