4. PENTHOL^A. 17 



the inner edge ashy whitish. Total length 6"5 inches, culmen 0-65, 

 wing 3'3, tail 2-G, tarsus 1-15. 



Hah. Confined to the Neilgherri hills in Southern India. 



a. S ad. sk. Coonoor, Neilgherri hills, W. Davison, Esq. [P.]. 



Feb. 3, 1882. 



b. S ad. sk. Coonoor, March 2, 1882. W. Davison, Esij. [P.]. 



4. Callene isabellae. 



Cossypha isabella;. Gray, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. (3) x. p. 443 (1862) ; 



Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 615; Reichen. J.f. 0. 1875, p. .50. 

 Bessonornis isabellte, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 264, no. 3869 (1869). 



Adult (tj'pe of species). Above dark olive-brown, the head, lores, 

 cheeks, and sides of face blackish ; a distinct white streak extending 

 from the base of the bill to the front part of the eye : wings brown, 

 with a slight margin of olive, paler on the primaries ; upper tail- 

 coverts deep bay, the rump slightly tinged with the same colour ; two 

 centre tail-feathers blackish, the rest deep bay, tipped with blackish, 

 the two outermost feathers externally black; chin blackish ; rest of 

 under surface deep orange-rufous, the centre of the abdomen fnlves- 

 cent ; thighs olive-brown, washed with fulvous ; under wing-coverts 

 pale orange; bill black, feet dark brown. Total length 5' 7 inches, 

 culmen 0'65, wing 2'9, tail 2'4, tarsus l*l-5. 



Hah. Camaroons, \Yest Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Camaroons Mountains, 7000 feet Mrs. Burton [P.]. 



{Capt. Burton). 



4. PENTHOL^A*. ^ 



Type. 

 Pentholaea, Caban-is, Mm. Hein. Th. i. p. 40, note (1850). P. albifrons, 

 Penthodyta, Sundeo. Av. Meth. Tmt, p. 4 (1872), nom. 

 emend. 



Bill of Pentholcea alhifrons. 

 Range. North-eastern and Central Africa and Senegambia. 



Ken ^^ '^^ Species. 



a. With white forehead albifrons S i P- 18. 



«'. No white wing-patch. 



b' . A large white patch formed by lesser wing- 

 coverts clericalis cj , p. 18. 



* TiiAMNowA ATRATA, Swai/ts. All. in Menaq. p. 292 (18.37); -B/j. Consp. i. 

 p. 298 (18.50) ; Gray Handl. B. i. p. 24l, no. 2991 (1S(;9). 



Entirely sooty black; wings rather paler; tail even. Length 5x, wing 2'8 

 tarsus -9. {Sicaiiifon, !. c.) 



Probably the female of Pentholeea albifrons. 

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