. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 14. THAMXOBIA. 53 5. Thamnolaea arnotti. Saxicola amotti, Trisfmm, Ihis, 1869, p. 206, pi. vi.; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 225, no. 3234 (1869); Socage, Jnrn. Acad. Lwh. 1870, p. 340; Blanf. ^- Dresser, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 233; Shm-pe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 269 (1876) ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 269 (1877). Adult [femaW]. Entirely glossy black above and below, -with the exception of the Aving-coverts, which form a conspicuous white patch, the lesser and median series being pure white, some of the latter tipped with black, and the greater inner cover
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 14. THAMXOBIA. 53 5. Thamnolaea arnotti. Saxicola amotti, Trisfmm, Ihis, 1869, p. 206, pi. vi.; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 225, no. 3234 (1869); Socage, Jnrn. Acad. Lwh. 1870, p. 340; Blanf. ^- Dresser, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 233; Shm-pe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 269 (1876) ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 269 (1877). Adult [femaW]. Entirely glossy black above and below, -with the exception of the Aving-coverts, which form a conspicuous white patch, the lesser and median series being pure white, some of the latter tipped with black, and the greater inner coverts of the series white at the base : in fi-ont of the eye a few white feathers * ; quills dusky below, browner along the edge of the inner web : " iris chest- nut" {AncMeta). Total length 6-5 inches, eulmen 0-75, wing 3-85, tail 2-35, tarsus 1-25. Professor Barboza du Bocage describes as an adult male a bird exactly like the above, but having a pronounced superciliary streak from the base of the biU to behind the eye. This is like the type figured in the ' Ibis ' (?. c), which has the eyebrow extended to "the end of the ear-coverts, and some of the feathers of the crown spotted with white, from which it would appear that one sex at least, at some time of its life, gets a pure white head. Hah. South-western Africa. o. [ 2 ] ad. sk. Berguela {Monteiro). 14. THAMNOBIA. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. Type. Thamnobia, Sicains. Faun. , Birds, p. 489 (1831) T. fulicata. Saxicoloides, Less. 1837 (teste Gray) T. Wing and foot of Tliamnohia fulicata. Eange. Indian Peninsula and Ceylon. * In the 'Birds of South Africa' [1. c), I have by some mistake described this specimen as having a " white line in front of the ; This seems to me to be too strong an expressiop, and I cannot understand how it came to be in- serted, as there are only the faintest indications of white loral Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page image
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