Annals of the Transvaal Museum 
235 
Wing 
Tail 
Tarsus 
Culmen 
C. sylvaticus 
A 
61 
61 
19 
12*2 
} f 
0 
T 
57 
56 
18 
13 
C. pondoensis 
60 
58 
18 
13 
$ 
57 
57*5 
18 
— 
C. godfreyi 
? 
62 
61 
21 
12 
Imm. 
62 
62 
20*5 
II 
Imm. 
62 
62 
20 
12 
C. major 
69 
74 
23 
13-2 
>> 
69 
76 
21 
13-3 
,, 
68-5 
76 
21 
13 
,, 
A 
65*5 
77 
21 
13 
? 
63 
69 
20*5 
13 
C. harratti 
62 
68 
22 
13 
The type of C. godfreyi is from Pirie, taken by the Rev. R. Godfrey 
and presented by him to the Albany Museum, Grahamstown, in which 
institution the specimen is preserved. The two immature specimens are 
yellowish in place of white and were taken by the Rev. Godfrey at Tsolo 
and presented to the Transvaal Museum. The series of C. major are from 
Wakkerstroom, taken by me, and as the type I select, T. M. No. 6869, 
18 October, 1910, a male in breeding plumage. Besides these specimens, 
there is in the Transvaal Museum collection a specimen which I take to 
be C. godfreyi, from Grahamstown, which differs from the type in having 
the underparts whiter, so that it is possible the two which are recorded 
as being immature represent another form found farther east at Tsolo, 
and the Grahamstown specimen a paler form found in the south, C. pon- 
doensis being a coastal species representing C, sylvaticus of the coastal 
forests- of the Knysna belt. We have also a specimen from Giants Castle 
of C. major and a specimen of,C. harratti from Woodbush. 
Schoenicola apicalis = Catriscus apicalis. 
According to Mathews and Iredale (Austral. Av. Rec. iii. 122, 1917 and 
IV. 131, 1920) the Icterine Warbler should bear the name of Hippolais 
coelehs (Frentzel, 1801). Iduna olivetorum has been recorded from the 
Transvaal and Rhodesia, first as Sylvia nisoria in error, and subsequently 
as Hippolais olivetorum (cf. Ann. Transvaal Mus. iii. 109, 1911; Journ. 
S. Afr. Orn, Un. viii. 17 and 62, and This, 1915, p. 568). The genus Sylvia 
should be reconstructed, but only two species occurring within our limits, 
it is here only necessary to separate Sylvia simplex {= horin Boddaert), 
genotype of Epilais, which differs from Sylvia sylvia in the length of the 
wing and tail, in the colour of the bill, legs and feet, and in the shape of the 
tail feathers. 
The genus Eremomela as at present constituted does not form a natural 
genus. Eremomela alhigularis Hartlaub is so entirely different from the 
other members of the pseudogenus that I propose to place it in a new genus, 
Eremomeloides, differing from Eremomela, Chlorodyta, Apalis, Camaro- 
ptera and Dryodromas (to which it has at times been referred) in having 
a shorter and blunter bill, and the third primary the longest; the tail 
feathers are very broad and in length, in proportion to the wing, inter- 
mediate between Camaroptera and Apalis \ the feet are as in Eremomela. 
Two more genera may be separated. Tricholais, genotype T. elegans 
