SYLVIAD7E. 



Traquet familier. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. iv. pL 183.— -Familiar 

 Warbler. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. \n. p. 100. 



Inhabits Southern Africa. Plumage in general 

 grey-brown, slightly tinged with rufous; deeper on 

 the upper parts : the breast and flanks, ears and rump, 

 rufous : the two middle tail-feathers brown, the others 

 the same, with the outer edges rufous : legs black : 

 beak and eye brown. Female rather less. 



Sp. 9. Sa. montana. 



Sa. nigra, ventre, humeris, tectricibus caudce margineque exterior 



rectricium exteriorum hasi alhis. 

 Black Wheatear with the belly, shoulders, tail-coverts, and outer 



margins of the exterior tail-feathers at the base, white. 

 Traquet montagnard. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. v. iv. pi. \ 84.J'. 2. 



Namaqua Warbler. Lath. Gen. Hist. v. vii. p. 102. 



Inhabits Southern Africa. Beak and legs black : 

 eye reddish-brown : plumage in general black, except 

 the belly, shoulders, upper and under tail-coverts, 

 and the outer margins of the exterior tail-feathers 

 from the base, which are white. The young are 

 wholly of a fine grey, inclined to blue above : quills 

 grey on the edges : the two middle tail-feathers black, 

 the others partly white : rump and shoulders whitish- 

 grey : beak and legs brown. After the second moult 

 the crown and nape become grey : hack, wing-coverts, 

 chin, throat, and breast black ; shoulders mixed with 

 white : the rest as above. 



Sp. 10. Sa. pileata. 



Vi. pileata. Steph. v. x. 568. — Africa. 



Sp. 1 1 . Sa. formicivora. 



