LIST OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM 
Total length, 9.5; beak to front, 9, to gape, i . i ; wing, i . 8 ; all 
the rectrices, 4 ; tarsus, i . 3. 
Gonys straight ; commissure and culmen considerably decurved. 
Allied to Grateropus leucocephalus (Rupp.), but differs in not 
having the whole head white, the fulvous colour of the flanks, &c. 
27. Saxicola leiicomelcena, Burckell, Travels in S. Africa, vol. i. 
p. 335. This bird precisely agrees with Mr. Burchell’s description, 
except that he makes no mention of the white which occupies three- 
fourths of the length from the base of the four external pairs of 
rectrices. Mr. Gray refers S. leucomelcena of Burckell to S. cur- 
soria. Vieill. ; Levaill. Ois. Af. pi. 90, but that differs in its larger 
size, black abdomen, &c. It is however possible, that the bird 
before us may be an immature state of S. monticola , Vieill., such as 
is represented in Levaillant, Ois. Af. pi. 185, f. 2. The entire 
crown and hind neck is white, with a faint brownish tinge ; the 
lesser and medial wing-covers, upper tail-covers, abdomen, and four 
outer pair of rectrices, except the tips, also the basal portion of the 
outer web of the fifth pair, pure white ; lower tail-covers black, 
tipped with white ; rest of the bird deep black. 
28. Saxicola hottentotta (Gm.) ; (Sylvia pihata , Lath. ; (Enanthe 
imitatrix, Vieill.; Levaill. Ois. Af. pi. 181.) There seems no 
doubt that this is the £t Grand Motteux du Cap de Bonne-esperance 
of Buffon, on which Gmelin founded his Sylvia hottentotta; though 
Buffon erroneously states it to be 8 long. A specimen which has 
long been in my collection measures 7 in total length, and the 
wing 4. Mr. Andersson’s specimen from Damara is still smaller, 
being only about 6 . 3 long, and the wing 3 . 4. Its colouration how- 
ever is identical with that of the larger specimen. 
29. Saxicola. Light fulvous brown above, pale cream colour 
beneath ; wing and tail-feathers fuscous, margined with lulvous , 
beak horn colour; legs black. 
Total length, 7.3; beak to front, 54, to gape, 8, high, 2 ; wing, 4.4; 
all the rectrices, 3 . 1 ; tarsus, i. 
This is probably a ? or immature, and I do not at present ventui e 
to name it. It approaches S. pallida of Riippell, Atl. ^oid. Al. 
pi. 34, f. a, but has a much stouter beak, darker tail, &c. 
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