THE DAMARA COUNTRY IN S. W. AFRICA. 
30. Monticola brevipes , Waterhouse, in Alexander’s Exped. Int. 
Af. vol. ii. p. 263. Front and crown hoary white ; lores blackish ; 
chin, throat, ear-covers, upper back and wing-covers, deep slaty 
grey ; remiges blackish, narrowly margined with whitish ; breast, 
abdomen, lower wing-covers, rump, upper and under tail-covers, and 
tail, bright ferruginous ; beak and legs blackish. 
N t B .— The two medial rectrices are wanting in my specimen, but 
probably are more or less marked with fuscous, as in other species. 
Total length, 6.8; beak to front, 7 b to g a P e > 9 5 win g> * • 2 ; tail > 
2.9; tarsus, i. 
? Above greyish fuscous, wing-feathers margined with pale 
brown; rump and upper tail-covers ferruginous; tail deep ferru- 
ginous chestnut, the middle pair of rectrices fuscous, the rest fus- 
cous on the outer webs near the tips ; feathers of cheeks, chin and 
throat whitish, margined with fuscous ; lower parts ferruginous, 
feathers of breast with a subterminal fuscous bar on each ; wmg 
I adopt Boie’s original name Monticola , given m 1822 for this 
genus, because I know no reason for changing it to PetrocossypJius 
or Petrocincla. 
31. Erythropygia galtoni, Strickland. This bird agrees with a 
specimen in Sir W. Jardine’s collection, procured by Dr. A. Smith, 
except in being of a rather paler tinge above and below. This 
latter specimen is labelled “ Saxicola familiar is," a name founded 
on the “ Tracquet familier” of Levaillaiit, Ois. Af. pi. 183. u 
the latter is described as having the outer webs of the lateral rec- 
trices fringed with rufous, whereas in the present bird the whole of 
the rectrices except the middle pair are rufous, tipped with brown 
for about 4. The upper parts are light fulvous brown ; wing-covers 
and remiges fuscous, narrowly margined with whitish-brown ; whole 
lower parts pale cream colour; rump, upper tail-covers and tail 
deep rufous ; medial rectrices fuscous, rufous at the base, the lest 
tipped with fuscous. ,. , 
Total length, ft; beak to front, 5, to base, 7; wmg, 3.4; medial 
rectrices, 2 . 8, external, 2 . 7 > tarsus, i. 
32. Drymceca (commonly misspelled Erymoica) levaillanti, Smith, 
Zool. S. Af. pi. 73. In reference to this species I may mention, 
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