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Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
IIEMIPTERYX MINUTA, sp. nov. 
This bird is considerably smaller than textrix , is not streaked on the 
flanks and breast, and has a comparatively shorter tail. 
Description : Feathers of the upper surface blackish-brown edged 
with pale brown, rustier on the wings, and on the wing and upper tail- 
coverts. Crown reddish-brown, the bases of the feathers being darker, 
giving a mottled appearance. A short eyebrow, and the cheeks greyish- 
cream, shading into pale rusty-brown on the nape, forming an indistinct 
collar. Lores blackish. Under surface greyish-white, the sides of the 
chest dusky-brown, the flanks fawny ; under taii-coverts tawny-white. 
Tail blackish-brown, the feathers (excepting the central pair) narrowly 
tipped with white. Thighs tawny-rufus. 
Female : Length, 89 mm. ; wing, 49 ; tail, 24 ; tarsus, 20 ; 
culmen, 9 -5. Waterfalls, Haenertsburg, 5th February, 1908. (Iris tawny ; 
bill horn above, light brown below, tip darker. Tarsus ashy-yellow. 
F. Y. Kirby.) 
Male : Length, 90 mm. ; wing, 49-5 ; tail, 24 -5 ; tarsus, 20 ; 
culmen, 9 -5. Woodbush Forest Reserve, Zoutpansberg, 29th January, 
1908. (Iris dark brown. Bill dark brown. Tarsus light pinkish-yellow. 
Gape olive. F. V. Kirby.) 
These birds were collected by Mr. F. Vaughan-Kirby in the north- 
central Transvaal. 
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 H. H. Swinny at Ngqeleni in 
West Pondoland, shot on 2nd August, 1908, I found a specimen which at 
first sight I took for Cossypha bicolor (Sparrm.) 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 HAAGNERI, n. sp. 
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, second, third, and fourth orange, fifth 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. 
