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This Woodpecker frequents the same localities as the Pied 
Barbet, but is less plentiful than that species. 
Turdus letsitsirupa (Smith). Ground-scraper Thrush. 
This Thrush is not uncommon amongst the mimosas. 
202. Saxicola galtoni (Strickland). Familiar Chat. 
The specimen sent was killed on a farm about fifteen miles 
from Potchefstroom. 
203. Saxicola tephronota, n. sp. Ash-backed Wheatear. 
A single specimen sent, which was shot on the low rocky 
ranges three miles from Potchefstroom; very few are to be 
found in this locality; sex not ascertained. 
[I am not able to identify this Wheatear with any species 
hitherto described; and I therefore suggest for it the specific 
name of tephronota, which is in keeping with its ashy grey 
back. The following is a description of this specimen :— 
Dimensions taken from the skin—total length 7*4 inches, 
culmen O’8, wing from carpal joint 4’6, tail 2 6, tarsus 1*3. 
The crown of the head is brownish grey, but shows a single 
dirty white feather, which differs from the adjoining plumage; 
the entire mantle, except the wing-coverts, clear pale bluish 
ash-grey; the lesser wing-coverts pure white; but some of 
the external feathers of these coverts have a black shaft-mark, 
and are tinged with slaty; the remaining coverts are black, 
more or less broadly edged with grey on the external web, 
but with one feather at the edge of the wing black, and im¬ 
mediately below this a small white spot; the quill-feathers 
of the wing dull black, very narrowly edged and tipped with 
grey, which is most conspicuous on the tertials; rump white; 
upper tail-coverts white, tipped with slaty; tail with the four 
central feathers wholly black, the two external pairs of rec- 
trices entirely white; of the intermediate pair one feather 
is quite white, but the corresponding feather is slightly tinged 
with blackish grey on both webs towards the tip and for the 
last three quarters of an inch of its length, this tinge becoming 
stronger as it approaches the tip of the feather, which is white 
elsewhere. 
The entire plumage of the underparts (other than the tail) 
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