Page 231. M t rm e c o c i c h la fo rm ic ív o r a .
Kingwilliamstown (Trevelyan).
Rustenberg, July, common on all the open country (Ayres.}
Common near Spalding’s on the H a rt River. Exceedingly common
after passing Estcourt; breeding near Newcastle (B., F., and R.).
Page 232. T h am n o b ia c in n am om e iv e n tris .
Should be called Tha/mnolcea cinnamomeiventris (cf. Sharpe, Cat. B.
vii, p. 49).
Rustenberg, May, very local (Ayres).
Hills near the Shongo River, November 1st; Kanye, Matabele Land
(Ayres).
Page 2 33. S a x í c o l a in f u s c a t a .
Is not a true Saxícola-, and is referred by Mr. Seebohm to the genus
jBradyomis. I t should, therefore, be called Bradyomis infuscata
(vide infra, p. 844).
Page 2 34. S a x íc o la g a l t o n i .
Ladysmith (F. Oates).
Inyati (F. Oates).
A common species throughout the Rustenberg district (Ayres).
Rocky kopjes near the Shongo River on November 1st: breeding
(Ayres).
Ladysmith, August (Reid).
Page 236. S a x í c o l a s in u a ta .
Referred by Mr. Seebohm to the genus Myrmecocichla (Cat. B. Brit.
Mus. vi, p. 359). .
Page 2 3 6 . S a x í c o l a l a t a r d i .
Fig. Seebohm, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi, pi. xviii.
Page 237. S a x í c o l a s c h l e g e l i .
Referred by Mr. Seebohm to Myrmecocichla cinerea (vide infra).
Page 2 3 8 . S a x íc o la p i le a ta .
K in gw illiam stow n (Trevelyan).
Potchefstroom (Lucas) ; John Scott’s Farm, Transvaal (F. Oates).
Mashoona Land, September and October (Ayres).
A familiar bird in the vicinity of habitations throughout the Newcastle
district, nesting about September (B., F.,’and R.).
Common a ll over th e c o u n try n e a r th e 0 ra n g 6 River (Bradshaw).
Page 240. S a x íc o la b if a s c ia ta .
Referred to the genus Myrmecocichla by Mr. Seebohm (Cat. B. Brit.
Mus. v, p. 355).
Plentiful in the neighbourhood of the Drakensberg a t the foot of the
slopes, breeding there in considerable numbers (B., F., and R.).
Ingagane River (Reid).
Page 242. S a x ic o la c in e r e a .
Is a Myrmecocichla, according to Mr. Seebohm (Cat. B. v, p. 358), who
considers tha t S. schlegeli (p. 237 of this work) belongs to the same
species.
Page 243. S a x ic o la d i lu t a .
Referred to S. leucomelcena by Mr. Seebohm (t. c. p. 377).
Page 243. S a x ic o la c a s to r .
Mr. Seebohm (t. c. p. 380) considers this to be only a stage of
S. monticola.
Page 244. S a x ic o la p o llu x .
Is a Myrmecocichla, according to Mr. Seebohm (t. c. p. 357).
Page 245. S a x ic o la a r n o t t i .
Is not a true Chat, and is referred by the editor to the genus Tham-
nolcea (Cat. B. vii, p. 53).
Page 246. S a x ic o la s h e l l e y i .
Also referred to Thamnolcea by the editor (t. c. p. 52.)
Ramaqueban River, on the way to Gubuleweyo June 24 ; near Sibanane,
December 8 (F. Oates).
Umvuli River, Mashoona Land, August 10th. Native name Inque-
lechaine. “ This is an arboreal Chat, frequenting the woods on
the banks of rivers : only met with on the Umvuli” (Ayres).
Fig. Sharpe in Oates, Matabele Land, App. pi. A.
Page 246. S a x ic o la m o n tic o la .
We have already referred (p. 247) to the difficulty of following the
sequence of plumage undergone by this Chat, and so dissatisfied
were we with the incompleteness of our information on the subject,
th a t we wrote to all our friends in South Africa to ask them to
work up the question and send us specimens In answer to this
appeal our excellent correspondents Dr. Exton, Mr. Lucas and
Captain Trevelyan sent us altogether twenty specimens, and with
this increased material Mr. Seebohm went to work a t the species
for the British Museum “ Catalogue of Birds.” The result he
arrived a t was th a t there was a white-headed form, Saxicola
leucomelcena, inhabiting Benguela and Damara Land (to which our
S. anderssoni, p. 249, is to be referred), and a southern form, S.
monticola, extending from the Cape Colony to Great Namaqua Land
on the west and from Bloemfontein to the Transvaal in the'centre
of South Africa. These two forms interbreed and produce an
infinite series of intermediate specimens, the strain of S. leu-
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