3i2 APPENDIX. 



Order PASSERES. 

 Family Turdid^e. 



68. LUSCINIOLA GRACILIROSTRIS (Hartl.) ; Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. 



Mus., v. p. 122. Brady pterns gracilirostris, Sharpe, t. c. p. 287 

 (corrected in App. p. 825) ; id. in Oates's Matabele Land, ed. 

 1, App. p. 310 (1881). White-breasted Reed-Warbler. 

 a. Not labelled. 



69. GEOCICHLA LITSITSIRUPA (Smith). Turdus litsitsirufta, Smith 1 ; 



Sharpe, ed. Layard, p. 198 (corrected in App. p. 813) ; id. in 

 Oates's Matabele Land, ed. 1, App. p. 307 (1881). South African 

 Thrush. 

 a. ct, b. $ Pair of thrushes shot together near Eland's River, July 

 1873. Iris hazel. 



c. $ (Ovary very rudimentary). Tati, March 19, 1874. Iris dark 

 hazel ; upper mandible dusky black, under one orange ; legs flesh-colour. 



d. ct Tati, October 1874. 



70. Monticola EXPLORATOR (Vieill.) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, p. 220. 



Sentinel Rock-Thrush. 

 a. Kaar Kloof Heights, near Pietermaritzburg, May 19, 1873. 

 Iris hazel. 



71. Cossypha Natalensis (Smith); Sharpe, t. c. p. 223. Natal 



Chat-Thrush. 

 a. Durban, April 23, 1873. Iris bright hazel (?). 



72. Erythropygia LEUCOPHRYS (Vieill.) Aedon leucophyys (Vieill.) ; 



Sharpe, /. c. p. 252 (corrected in App. p. 821) ; id. in Oates's 

 Matabele Land, ed. 1, App. p. 309 (1881). White-eyebrowed 

 Chat-Thrush. 

 a. $ Transvaal, November 1873. Iris hazel. 



73. THAMNOLiEA Shelleyi (Sharpe) ; id. ed. Layard, p. 246. Saxi- 



cola Shelleyi, Sharpe in Oates's Matabele Land, ed. 1, App. 

 p. 307, pi. A (1881). Shelley's Bush-Chat. (Plate I.) 



a. Ramakwebani River, a few miles above the drift, on the way to 

 Gubuluwayo, June 24, 1874. Iris dark hazel ; bill, legs, and claws 

 black. Gravel and beetles in stomach. This bird seems to have a 

 habit of climbing about in trees. 



b. ( $ probably, on account of the very bare breast). Near Siba- 

 nani, December 8, 1874. Iris hazel ; bill and legs black. 



[This fine species was hitherto known from a pair of birds only, 

 which were purchased a few years back from a dealer by the British 

 Museum, and were stated to have come from the Victoria Falls. Mr. 

 Oates has now established the Zambesi region to be the habitat of the 

 species, and has also procured it 300 miles off the place whence the 

 first specimens were obtained. The occurrence of Shelley's Bush- 

 Chat so far south as the Ramakwebani River is very interesting, as we 



