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Also another specimen from the same locality which measures : 
wing, 54 ; tail, 44 ; tars., (?) ; culm., 14 mm. 
Mont/icola pretoriae, spec. nov. 
Very similar to M. brevipes , with which it has been confused in the 
past, but has the top of the head uniform slate blue, no white eyebrow, 
and the dark brown margin on the outer tail-feather is more extended, 
measuring over 25 mm. in all specimens so far examined as against 16 mm. 
and under in brevipes. 
Entire head, neck, scapulars, back, and throat slate blue, with the 
exception of a dark mark before the eye, and a somewhat darker shade on 
the back ; rump, upper tail-coverts, and under-surface of body, including 
the crop, and under wing and tail coverts orange rufous, inclining to 
whitish on the abdomen. Primaries dark brown edged to the emargination 
with dull white, except the first and second which are uniform ; bastard 
wing blackish with white tips ; secondaries and all wing-coverts dark 
brown, margined externally and at the tips with dull white. Tail-feathers 
for the greater part orange rufous, the central pair dark brown for the 
terminal two-thirds, the outermost broadly margined on the outer web for 
the terminal half and the remaining feathers narrowly edged near the tips 
of the outer webs with dark brown. 
Type of $ T.M. No. 8456 ; ex coll. Austin Roberts, Pretoria, 22.VII.09. 
(Iris, brown ; bill, black ; legs and feet, dusky. Length, 180 mm. — A. R.) 
Wing, 102 ; tail, 63 ; tars., 27 ; culm., 21 mm. 
Type of $ T.M. No. 8457 ; same collection and locality, 19.VII.09. 
Length, 172 ; wing, 100 ; tail 62 ; tars., 27 ; culm., 21 mm. This differs 
from the $ in having the head, neck, scapulars, and back earth brown, 
tinged with rufous, in place of slate blue ; cheeks and chin white ; feathers 
of the throat white down the centre, on the sides earth brown with a 
white spot in the centre bordered by a darker mark, these white spots 
becoming fewer towards and disappearing on the sides of the throat and 
Crop ; lower surface paler rufous than the rump, irregularly crossed on the 
breast by wavy lines of dark brown, and whitish on the abdomen. 
The Transvaal Museum collection also contains three and one £ 
from Pretoria, and one <$ from Woodbush. 
Gist/icola pusilla, spec. nov. 
Very similar to G. rufa of West Africa, but readily distinguished by 
the longer first primary, which exceeds half the length of the second. 
Upper surface ipale rufous brown, the crown darker ; lores, chin, 
throat, and centre of abdomen white ; flanks and thighs brownish buff, 
remaining under-surface paler buffish ; under wing coverts silky vinous 
buff ; tail-feathers very broad, the central pair like the back, but having a 
broad dark brown subterminal smudge and pale tip ; the remaining tail- 
feathers with the subterminal mark more pronounced ; primaries and 
secondaries dusky, with rufous outer and whitish inner margins ; wing- 
coverts like the back. 
Type of <J T.M. No. 4673 ; ex coll. Kirby and Roberts, Villa Pereira, 
Boror, P.E. Africa, 25.V.08. (Iris, grey ; bill, brown ; lower mandible, 
pale brownish pink ; legs and feet, pale pinkish yellow. Length, 109 mm. — 
K. & R.) Wing, 48 ; tail, 38 (?) ; tars., 21 ; culm., 11 mm. 
Type of 5 T.M. No. 5292 ; ex coll. P. A. Sheppard, near Beira, 1.IX.0V 
Wing, 42 ; tail, 38 ; tars., 21 ; culm., 11 mm. 
