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a rocky nature, as also to abandoned "werfts" and villages. 

 It is rather a voracious feeder, preying on all kinds of 

 insects, from the minutest beetle to the scorpion, of 

 which I have found specimens in its stomach; it also 

 occasionally eats soft seeds. 



The iris is reddish brown ; the legs and toes bluish 

 black, as also is the bill, but with the base of the gape 

 yellow. 



[This species has not yet been figured ; seven specimens 

 obtained at Objimbinque by Mr. Andersson are now in the 

 collection of Mr. R. B. Sharpe. — Ed.] 



148, Chsetops pycnopygius (Sekt.). Damara CliEEtops. 



Sphenosacus pycnopygius, Strickland & Sclater, Birds Damar., Contr. 



Orn. 1862, p. 148, pi. 102. 

 Dryinceca anchieta; Bocage, in Jorn. Acad. Lisb. 18G8, p. 41. 

 Chcetops anchietee, Bocage, in Jorn. Acad. Lisb. 1868, p. 351. 

 Cheetops Grayi, Sharpe, in Proc. Zool. Soo. 1869, pi. 14. 

 Chcetops pycnopygius, Sbarpe's Cat. No. 226. 



The only places where I can recollect having caught 

 a glimpse of this rarely seen Rock-Thrush are the Kaaru 

 River, Ongari Ombo, near Jacongana, Okamalute, and, 

 lastly, the Omaruru River, where I obtained one specimen 

 on October 30th, 1866, which I found hopping about 

 amongst some stones thickly overgrown with bush and 

 coarse grass, and strewn with decaying wood. As soon 

 as the bird perceived that it was observed, it imme- 

 diately slipped into the thickest part of this tangled bush, 

 and for some time I thought I had lost it ; but after 

 pelting it with stones it flew out and settled on the lower 

 branch of a small acacia. I found, when shot, that its 



