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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
The soft parts are :—Irides reddish brown ; bill brownish; 
legs and toes slate-coloured.] 
224. Chlorocichla occidentalis. 
P. Coguno, June (1) ; Beira’, Jan. (1) ; Tambarara, 
July (2). 
I can see no distinction between the type of this species, 
described by Sharpe from Ovaquenyama in Northern 
Damaraland, birds from the Upper and Lower Zambesi 
Valley, Nyasaland, and the examples here catalogued. In 
this I am in agreement with Reichenow. Shelley separated 
the Zambesi Valley birds as C. zambesioe. 
[This is the Eastern and Northern representative of 
C. flaviventris, and differs nowise from that species in call 
or habits. The soft parts are also similar.] 
226. Phyllastrephus terrestris. 
Phyllastrephus capensis Stark & Sclater, Bds. S. Afr. ii. 
P-71. 
GC. Knysna, Dee., Jan. (2) ; I. Ulovo, Nov. (1) ; 
Z. Sibudeni, Nov., Dec., Jan. (6). 
Owing to the fact that Mr. Richmond has discovered that 
Swainson’s ‘ Birds of West Africa ’ was published three 
months previously to his ‘ Classification of Birds/ the name 
of this species has to be changed from C. capensis to 
P. terrestris. Both names, proposed by the same author, 
are founded on “le Jaboteur 5 ’ of Levaillant. 
A nestling hardly free from dowm is almost exactly similar 
to the adult in coloration. 
[I have noted this bird from Knysna, Natal, and Zulu- 
land. It is essentially a woodland species, and is usually 
found in small parties ; it frequents the thick undergrow th, 
spending much of its time on the ground and scraping among 
the dead leaves, the rustle of which I have often mistaken 
for that of some large animal moving about. Unless dis¬ 
turbed it is silent, but when alarmed it utters a loud harsh 
note of “churr churr 39 (the r T s being rolled), constantly 
repeated by the whole party. 
The soft parts are :—Irides reddish brown ; bill browrn, 
base of lower mandible slaty ; legs and toes livid.] 
