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black. Length, 378 mm. — K. & R.) Wing, 142 ; tail, 200 ; tars., 23 ; 
culm., 44 mm. 
Type of $ T.M. No. 4653, ex coll. Kirby and Roberts, Villa Pereira, 
13.VI.08. Length, 353 ; wing, 127 ; tail, 192 ; tars., 23 ; culm., 38 mm. 
Alseonax caerulescens pondoensis , subsp. nov. 
This subspecies differs from the typical A. caerulescens in being much 
darker grey, the throat in particular grey and not white. 
Type of £ T.M. No. 7288 ; ex coll. H. H. Swinny, Port St. Johns, 
Pondoland, 21. VII. 09. (Iris, brownish hazel ; bill, blue-black, lighter 
below ; Kgs and feet, dark brown. Length, 145 mm. — H. H. S.) Wing, 
75 ; tail, 75 ; tars., 16 ; culm., 12 mm. 
Type of 5 T.M. No. 7289 ; same collection and locality, 16. VII. 09. 
Length, 142 ; wing, 70 ; tail, 58 ; tars., 16 ; culm., 12 mm. 
There are also three more specimens in the Transvaal Museum from 
the same locality which are identical with the types. 
Gerthilauda daviesi, spec. nov. 
This species is intermediate between C. semitorquata and C. capensis , 
differing from the former in being darker, more profusely streaked on the 
crop, and slightly larger, the beak stouter and the liindclaw exceeding 
10 mm. in length ; from the latter it differs in being smaller, and in having 
the under-surface more fulvous coloured and the streaks not extending 
beyond the upper breast. 
Top of head, neck, back, and scapulars dull vinous chestnut, streaked 
with dull black, the hindneck greyer and forming a collar ; rump clearer 
vinous, only very faintly streaked ; upper tail-coverts greyer than the 
rump and more distinctly streaked ; tail dark brown, broadly margined 
with rufous. Lores and an eyebrow streak, broadest above the ear-coverts, 
dull whitish varied with pale brown ; ear-coverts chestnut varied with 
dark brown ; sides of face buffish white with cross-bands of blackish ; 
chin and part of upper throat immaculate buffish white ; crop and breast 
vinous buffish, streaked with dark brown, sides of both darker and more 
vinous ; remaining under-surface of body pale buffish, the flanks darker 
and streaked with vinous ; under tail-coverts vinous, streaked with dark 
brown and margined with pale buffish ; under wing-coverts pale vinous. 
Primaries dark brown, narrowly edged externally and at the tips with very 
pale vinous ; secondaries more broadly margined with vinous rufous, the 
innermost on both webs and with only a dark brown shaft streak ; 
primary coverts dark brown edged with pale vinous ; greater coverts more 
broadly margined, and the remaining coverts pale vinous, with only the 
centres dark brown and the tips paler ; edge of wing varied dark brown 
and very pale vinous. 
Type of <$ T.M. No. 8444 ; ex coll. C. G. Davies, Matatiele, East 
Griqualand, 28.V.11. (Iris, hazel ; bill, dusky, base pale grey ; legs and 
feet, fleshy yellow. — C. G. Davies.) Wing, 105 ; tail, 78 ; tars., 30 ; 
culm., 23 mm. 
Type of $ T.M. No. 8445 ; same data. Smaller than the <$ and some- 
what lighter coloured above and below. Wing, 93 ; tail, 68 *, tars., 28 ; 
culm., 19 mm. 
A juvenile specimen from the same locality, T.M. No. 8446, is 
distinguished from the adults by its more vinous appearance above, the 
feathers of the nape, scapulars, and upper back with white tips ; region of 
the crop vinous and less distinctly streaked, and remaining under-surface 
white, inclining to rufous on the flanks. Wing, 95 ; tail, 70 ; tars., 27 ; 
culm., 16 mm. 
