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Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant made the following remarks 

 on Eremomela fiaviventris (Burchell) : — BurchelPs description 

 of his Sylvia fiaviventris was founded on specimens obtained 

 in the Asbestos Mountains, Griqualand West, which, as 

 clearly stated in the description, have the throat and breast 

 white. This form ranges eastward into the South-western 

 Trausvaal, being found at Rustenburg and at Potchefstroom ; 

 thence westwards through Lataku, where it was obtained 

 by Sir Andrew Smith ; and can be traced from the Molopo 

 River across the Kalahari to Damaralaud. 



At Deelfontein, in the Karroo Country, Cape Colony, 

 a different, dark-breasted form is found, and a fine series 

 of this bird collected in almost every month between January 

 and September by Messrs. Seimund and Claude Grant was 

 presented to the British Museum by Colonel Sloggett. The 

 Museum Collection also possesses a similar dark- breasted 

 bird from King William's Town. 



Sharpe (cf. ' Ibis/ 1904, p. 339) considered that the 

 Deelfontein birds represented typical E. fiaviventris and 

 renamed the more northern white-breasted form E. damar- 

 ensis. 



Dr. Reichenow [Vog. Afr. iii. p. 634 (1905)] still further 

 complicated the matter by including under his E. fiaviventris 

 examples referable to three different species, viz. : — the dark- 

 breasted birds from King William's Town and Deelfontein 

 (which are a new species, E. saturatior), Potchefstroom 

 birds (which are typical E, fiaviventris, Burch., = /2. damar- 

 ensis, Sharpe, = E. fiaviventris sharpei, Reich.), and also birds 

 from Umf uli and Salisbury, which are undoubtedly examples 

 of E. pulioxantha, Sharpe — a quite distinct form with the 

 yellow on the underparts extending up to the chest. 



These three species of Eremomela with a yellow abdomen 

 should therefore stand as follows : — 



1. Eremomela polioxantha, Sharpe. 

 Eremomela polioxantha, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. vii. 

 p. 160(1883). 



Chest greyish-white ; breast and belly bright yellow. 



