by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
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Apalis claudej. (Plate IY. fig. 2.) 
W. Sclater, Bull. B. O. C. xxvii. Nov. 1910, p. 15. 
GC. Knysna, Jan. (3) ; Plettenberg Bay, Mcli. (1). 
Hitherto two quite distinct species have been confused 
under the name or A. thoracica. The differences between 
the two are briefly as follows. 
A . claudei. —Above dark slaty grey throughout, with the 
faintest perceptible wash of olive ; ear-coverts slightly paler 
than the back, a black spot in front of the eye; below, 
throat white separated from the abdomen by a black transverse 
band; remaining under parts white in the centre, olive- 
brown on the flanks and under tail-coverts. Tail with two or 
three outer tail-feathers tipped with white, the outermost 
chiefly white. 
Length about 130 mm., wing 50, tail 57, tarsus 20, culmeu 
13. 
Type from Plettenberg Bay, a male killed March 12, 
1905. 
This species differs from A. thoracica in having the back 
dark slaty grey instead of olive-green and in the entire 
absence of any yellow on the lower side; the dimensions 
seem very similar. The sexes in both species are alike, 
and the young birds differ from the adults in the absence 
of the black chest-band. 
In addition to those mentioned above, the British Museum 
contains examples of this new species from Knysna 
(Andersson , Dec. 2nd, 1865) and Grahamstown; while 
of A. thoracica there are examples from Port Elizabeth 
{Rickard), King William'’s Town ( Trevelyan , May), Pinetown 
{Ayres, Mch., May, July, Oct., Nov., Dec.), the Drakens¬ 
berg ( Butler , Aug.), Macamac (Barratt), and Bustenburg 
(Ayres). 
Apalis thoracica was founded on “ Le plastron noir ” 
of Levaillant, whose plate and description, as also those of 
Shaw and Nodder and Swainson, obviously refer to the 
yellow-bellied form from the east of Cape Colony and Natal. 
I have found no name to apply to the white-bellied form, 
and am therefore naming it after Claude Grant. 
