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may now expect that it will be found still farther to the southwards. 

 Since the first edition of this work was published, the present species 

 has been met with by Mr. Jameson's expedition to the Mashona 

 Country, and also in the country near Lake Nyassa by Dr. Boehm. 

 Mr. T. Ayres states that it is an arboreal Chat, frequenting the woods 

 on the banks of rivers.] 



74. Myrmecocichla formicivora (Vieill.) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, 



p. 231. Southern Ant-eating Wheatear. 

 a, b. $ Near Newcastle, May 30, 1873. Iris hazel. Stomach very 

 muscular, containing seeds and beetles. Found perching on ant-hills, 

 from which it rises with a hovering flight, something like a Skylark. 



75. Saxicola monticola, Vieill.; Sharpe, Ibis, 1883, p. 343. Saxi- 



cola leucomelcena, Burch. ; Sharpe in Oates's Matabele Land, 

 ed. r, App. p. 308 (1881). Mountain Wheatear. 

 a. Desolate part of High Veldt ; found on walls round corn and 

 peach fields, June 15, 1873. Iris hazel. Beetles in stomach. 



[This specimen was determined as S. leucomelmia, Burch., in the first 

 edition of this book. According to the recent discoveries of Colonels 

 Butler and Feilden and Captain Reid, it is an old male of S. monticola 

 (Vieill.) I have specially referred to it in the ' Ibis ' as cited above.] 



76. Saxicola Galtoni, Strickl. ; Sharpe, ed. Layard, p. 234. 



Familiar Chat. 



a. $ (?) Ladysmith, May 25, 1873. Ms dark hazel. 



b. $ Inyati, October 2, 1873. Iris rich hazel-brown. Native name, 

 "Envahli." 1 



77. Saxicola pileata (Gm.) ; Sharpe, t. c. p. 238. Capped Wheatear. 

 a. Pietermaritzburg, about the beginning of May 1873. 



°- $•> c - ? John Scott's Farm, Transvaal, June 19, 1873. Iris dark 

 hazel. 



78. Pratincola TORQU ata (L.); Sharpe, /. c. p. 250. South African 



Stone-Chat. 



a. <J Durban, April 23, 1873. 



b. $ Pietermaritzburg, May 2, 1873. 



c. $ Near Newcastle, May 31, 1873. Iris very dark hazel. 



d. $ (well developed). Tati, October 15, 1874. Iris hazel. 



e. 5 Tati, October 15, 1874. Iris hazel. 



/• $ (?) (young bird in pen). Tati, October 15, 1874. Iris hazel. 

 Don't remember to have seen this species here before. Is it just 

 arrived, or merely passing as a bird of passage from the south ? 



Family PYCNONOTID.E. 



79. Pycnonotus Layard 1, Gurney ; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 390; Sharpe, 



Cat. B. Brit. Mus., vi. p. 132 ; id. ed. Layard, App. p. 815. 

 Layard' s Bulbul. 



1 [The letters hi in this word must be sounded like # in Welsh, — Ed.] 



