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looked that Saxicola monticola and 5 . pileata are equally distinct from 
Saxicola (= Oenanthe) oenanthe. S. monticola is apparently the genotype 
of Grillivora Swainson (1837), as well as of Dromolaea Cabanis [Mus. Hein. 
I. 9, 1850), and S. pileata is the genotype of Campicola Swainson {Zool. 
Journ. III. 171, 1827). Mathews {Nov. Zool. xviii. 20, 1911) has shown that 
the type species of Saxicola is S. ruhicola, so that the correct name for the 
genus as formerly accepted would be Oenanthe; and as the relationship of 
Grillivora and Campicola to Oenanthe is not clear, they may for the present 
be regarded as distinct genera. Thamnolaea hifasciata is far removed from 
T. cinnamomeiventris (the genotype) and is probably more closely related 
to Campicola; but as its affinity is obscure, I propose to place it in a new 
genus bearing the name of Campicoloides. Before proceeding to deal with 
other genera, it is necessary to review the specific nomenclature of the 
genera Grillivora and Emarginata, which are somewhat involved. The 
species commonly known by the name of Saxicola monticola has been the 
subject of much enquiry in the past, and the phases of plumage of the male 
are not yet understood; but apart from these phases of plumage, there 
appear to be two subspecies, a western one with a wing length of 104- 
114 mm. in adult males and a larger eastern one having a wing length 
usually varying between 114 and 123 mm., rarely only in mm. The first 
three names to appear in the synonymy of the typical western form are: 
Oenanthe monticola Vieillot {Nouv. Diet. xxi. 434, 1818). 
Vitiflora rupicola Boie {Isis, 1828, p. 320). 
Grillivora capensis Swainson {Class. B. ii. 238, 1837), the first containing 
the specific name and the third the generic name available for the bird 
figured by Le Vaillant as “ Le Traquet Montagnard ” in his Oiseaux d' Afrique 
(PI. 184, fig. 2, and PI. 185, figs. I and 2), which was procured in Namaqua- 
land. Saxicola leucomelana Burchell {Travels in South Africa, i. 335, 1822) 
was taken near the Asbestos Mountains, about where Griquatown now 
stands, and is a synonym of the preceding. S. aequatorialis Hartlaub 
{Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 112), described on one of Verreaux’s specimens, 
said to have been procured in "Gaboon,” but doubtless also from the 
south-v^^est of the Cape Province, is also a synonym; 5 . castor Hartlaub 
{Proc. Zool. Soc. Bond. 1865, p. 747) from the Karroo is another synonym. 
Bocage {Journ. Sc. Lisbon, ii. 151, 1867) procured two specimens from 
Dombe, Benguella, one of which he referred to Dromolaea monticola and 
the other to a new species, " Dromolaea alhipileata,'’ giving the wing length 
as 107 and 105 mm. respectively, so that they clearly belong to the western 
subspecies. Tristram {Ibis, 1869, p. 206) next described Saxicola atmorei 
from "Damaraland,” the wing length being given as 112 mm., which 
agrees with a series from Windhoek. Five years later Blanford and Dresser 
{P.Z.S. 1874, pp. 213-241) in dealing with the chats further added to the 
list of names and confused the synonymy of the species by ignoring what 
Le Vaillant had long before pointed out, namely, that there was a great 
amount of individual variation amongst males. One of their names becomes 
available, however, for the eastern subspecies, namely Saxicola griseiceps, 
recorded from Colesberg, Natal and Transvaal, of which Colesberg may 
be taken as the type locality, although the wing length as given by Blan- 
ford and Dresser is rather short, only iii mm. The other species they 
describe is Saxicola diluta, from "Damaraland,” with a wing measurement 
