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of country lying between the Transvaal and the Zambesi, and I know from 
personal experience that the call-notes of the birds in the two regions 
mentioned are decidedly different. 
Laniarius ferrugineus fermgineus Gmelin. 
Specimens examined from Cape Town, Paarl, Knysna, Zuurberg and 
Grahamstown, in the Cape Province. 
Males are blue-black above, white on the throat and breast, in strong 
contrast to the rufous belly and under tail-coverts; the breast has an 
underlying huffish coloration, which is, however, hardly noticeable, the 
white general effect being very marked. The female is olive-brown above, 
with a darkening under the eyes to the ear-coverts to almost black; the 
underparts of the body merge from pale rufous on the throat to dark rufous 
on the under tail-coverts. In both sexes the outermost tail-feather has 
no white tip, though usually a narrow trace of yellowish where it is present 
in the Zambesi forms. The tarsus is long (33-34*5 mm.), the bill deep 
(height at the nostrils about 10 mm.) and broad when viewed from above. 
Laniarius ferrugineus pondoensis subsp. nov. 
A long series from Port St John’s, Pondoland. 
In these specimens the male is similar to the male of the Cape form, 
though several of them have a yellowish suffusion on the back; in the 
female the top of the head and back are very markedly yellowish olive 
and the dark mark on the sides of the face is almost absent; the immature 
are similar above to the female. Possibly this form extends northwards 
along the coastal belt of forests, as there is a single adult specimen from 
Magudi, a little north of Louren90 Marques, which is somewhat similar. 
The dimensions of this form are practically the same as in the typical one. 
Laniarius ferrugineus natalensis subsp. nov. 
Specimens examined from Weenen and Dargle district in Natal uplands. 
In this form the male has the underparts paler than in the preceding 
and the female is rather darker brown above than in the Cape form, the 
bill is narrower, decreasing to 9-5 mm. in height at the nostrils, and the 
tarsus on an average is shorter, 31*5-33 mm., the length of wing and tail 
approximately the same as in the southern forms. 
Laniarius ferrugineus transvaalensis subsp. nov. 
Specimens examined from Swaziland, Barberton, Lydenburg, Zout- 
pansberg high veld, Waterberg and Rustenburg districts. 
In this form the white sheen on the throat and breast in the male has 
given way to a buffy rufous, so that it approaches more nearly to the 
female in coloration, and, on the other hand, the female is black above. 
The outermost tail feather usually has a narrow white tip. The tarsus is 
on an average still shorter than in natalensis, that is to say, 29*5-32 mm,, 
the bill weaker (height at the nostrils 8*5-9 ni^i-) and the tail shorter than 
in the next form, namely, males 90-98, females 85-94 mm. 
Laniarius ferrugineus limpopoensis subsp. nov. 
Specimens examined from Lilliput, Njellele River, Mapogone, Malala 
Drift (Zoutpansberg District) and Manetsi River, S.E. Rhodesia, all situ- 
ated in the low-country north of Zoutpansberg. 
