On a new species of Cossypha 
FROM WEST PONDOLAND. 
By Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, Director of the Transvaal Museum. 
Among a collection of birds collected by IT. H. Swinny 
at Ngqeleni in West Pondolaad, shot on 2.8.08, 1 found a speci- 
men which at first sight ! took for Cossypha bicolor (SparrmT 
Closer examination, however, showed that I had to do with a 
new and very distinct species. In bicolor the sides of the face, 
ear coverts, and lores are black, which is entirely absent in 
the new species, which I desire to name after my Assistant, 
Mr. A. K. Haagner, the energetic Secretary of the South 
African Ornithologists Union. 
“Cossypha haagnen!.” 
Description : Adult female, above, including the crown 
and wing coverts, bluish slate-grey, merging into orange on the 
rump and upper tail coverts. Lores, a broad stripe over the 
eyes, ear coverts, under wing and under tail coverts and entire 
under surface of the body uniform bright orange. Back of the 
neck washed with orange brown. Primaries blackish, broadly 
margined with bluish -grey on the outer web, except the first 
two, which are entirely black. Tail : outer feather inner web 
orange, outer web dark brown, 2nd, 3rd and 4th orange, 5th 
orange margined near the tip with dark brown, middle feather 
entirely dark brown. 
Bill black, iris brown, feet pinkish brown. 
Length 198 mm. in the flesh, wing 93 mm., tail 91 mm., 
bill 15 mm., tarsus 31 mm. 
The type is in the Transvaal Museum. 
