415 
by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
I have only secured it from the Inhambane district. In 
habits it greatly resembles Tarsiger stellatus. 
The soft parts are :—Irides hazel; bill black; legs and 
toes brown.] 
323. CoSSYPHA CAFFRA. 
CG, Table Mt. slopes, Jan. Feb. (5); Tokai, Feb. (2) ; 
Durban Rd., Mch., Sept. (3) ; Plettenberg Bay, Mch. (1) ; 
TV. Zuurbron Mch., May (2) ; Wakkerstroom, Apl. (1) ; 
Woodbush, May, Jane (2) ; Legogot, Apl. (1). 
COSSYPHA CAFFRA NAMAQUENSIS, subsp. nOV. 
GC. Klipfontein, June (1). 
This form of the Cape Robin differs from the typical form 
commonly found throughout Southern Cape Colony and 
Natal in the great extension of the white on the sides of the 
head; instead of forming a comparatively inconspicuous 
eyebrow, it makes a broad band on either side of the head 
from the base of the bill over the eye to above the ear- 
coverts, where there is a very conspicuous white patch; this 
at once distinguishes it from the common Cape Town form ; 
and except that the orange-rufous of the throat and chest is 
of a slightly darker and richer shade, as was noticed by 
Sharpe w r hen examining the Deelfontein bird (‘ Ibis/ 1904, 
p. 322), there does not seem to be any other appreciable 
difference. 
Only a single example was procured by Grant. This, 
the type of the subspecies, is a female from Klipfontein, 
Namaqualand, dated June 19, 1903. 
I have found two other specimens in the British Museum. 
One of these, also a female, was obtained previously by 
Claude Grant at Deelfontein in July; the other, a male, 
is labelled u Hopetown, Atmore/” 
Measurements of the type : length 170 mm., wing 89, tail 
86, culmen 12, tarsus 27 ; of the Hopetown male, length 
186 mm., wing 87, tail 90, culmen 12, tarsus 27. 
The Namaqualand Robin-Chat doubtless replaces the Cape 
Robin-Chat in the valley of the Orange River and in 
Northern and North-Western Cape Colony. 
