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66. THAMNOLHA ALBISCAPULATA, Riipp. 
Thamnolea albiscapulata, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. t. 26. f.1; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 58. no. 168; Heugl. 
Syst. Uebers. no. 250; Brehm, Habesch, p. 2138. no. 58. 
Thamnolea casiogastra, Bp. Compt. Rend. xxxviii. p. 7 (1854). 
a. 3. Koomaylee. March 22 (no. 145). 
b. Sooroo. May. 
Long. al. Caud. Culm. Tars. 
4’ 6” Bf” i eas a 13” 
This species has often been erroneously confounded with the southern Th. cinna- 
momeiventris, Lafr. (Rev. Zool. 1836, t. 56; Petrocincla montana, Licht. Nomencl. 1854, 
p- 26), a very nearly allied but different species. The north-eastern Th. albiscapulata 
is distinguished by having the upper and under tail-coverts black, the latter being only 
cinnamomeous at the base, whereas in Th. cinnamomeiventris these parts are uniform cin- 
namon, like the rump and under surface. Mr. Layard and Mr. Gurney have overlooked 
these differences, and make the southern bird the same as the north-eastern. Saxicola 
albiscapulata (Layard, B. 8S. Afr. p. 106), Thamnobia ptymatura (Gurney, Ibis, 1863, 
p. 328), and Th. albiscapulata (Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 157) belong therefore as synonyms 
to Th. cinnamomeiventris. I have compared both species carefully in the Berlin and 
Frankfort Museums. 
Thamnolea casiogastra, from Abyssinia, seems to be, from the short description of 
Bonaparte, nothing more than the female of Th. albiscapulata, which differs from the 
male only in wanting the white patch on the shoulders.—O. F. 
{Iris dark brown; beak black; legs and feet black. 
This specimen was shot in the Sooroo Pass, seven miles higher up the road to Senafé 
than Koomaylee. I procured another specimen at Sooroo in May. It was tolerably 
plentiful about this locality, but I did not come across it anywhere else during my stay 
in Abyssinia or Bogos.—W. J.] 
67. THAMNOLHA MELENA (Riipp.). 
Sazxicola melena, Riipp. Neue Wirbelth. t. 28. f. 2; id. Syst. Uebers. p. 58. no. 154; Heugl. Syst. 
Uebers. no. 230. 
a. 3. Senafé. April 24 (no. 137), 
Agrees very well with the description and figure given by Dr. Riippell, who collected 
a few specimens in the Abyssinian province Agame. Heuglin observed it in the moun- 
tains of Simehn and Woggara. A comparison with Thamnolea ethiops, Licht. (Cab. 
Mus. Hein. p. 8; Hartl. W. Afr. p. 65), from West and South Africa, would probably 
prove the identity of the two species.—0O. F. 
{Iris brown; beak black; legs and feet black. 
The only specimen procured ; two others seen near Senafé.— W. J.] 
