18 



). With no white forehead, the latter sometimes 

 washed with whity browu. 

 c'. Sooty Wack with no grey shade; wing- 

 lining conspicuously white _. . . melcena d ? , P- 19- 



d'. Slaty black with a greyish shade; wing- 



liniug ashy whitish or whity brown alhifroiis J , p. 18. 



1. Pentholsea albifrons. 



Saxicola albifrons, Eiipp. Neue Wirb. Voff. p. 78 (ISSo) ; Des Murs, 



in Lefebvre, Vol/. Abyss, p. 93 (1845) ; Hevgl. Syst. Uebers. p. 26 



(1856). 

 Saxicola frontalis, Sivains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 46 (1837) ; Hemjl. J. 



f. O. 1869, p. 153. 

 Thamnobia frontalis, RUjjp. Syst. Uebers. p. .58, pi. 17 (1845) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 789 (1850) ; Havtl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 69 (1857); Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 211, no. 2992 (1869). 

 Pentholffia frontalis. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 40, note (1850); 



Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 28 (1871). 

 Penthohea albifrons, Hevyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 364 (1S69) ; Antin. 



^- SaJvad. Viayg. Bogos, p. 96 (1873). 

 Thamnobia albifrons, Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 237 (1870). 

 Penthodyta frontalis, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 4 (1872). 



Male. General colour above slaty black ; 'wing-coverts like the 

 back ; quills ashy black, externally like the back ; tail-feathers 

 black ; crown of head like the back, with a broad frontal patch of 

 white ; sides of face and under surface of body black ; under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries black ; quills ashy black below, inner edge 

 ashy whitish ; " bill and feet black ; iris dusky " {Heuglin). Total 

 length 5-4 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3, tail 2-25, tarsus 0-9. 



Female. Differs from the male in having no white frontlets, but 

 having rusty grey margins to the feathers of the forehead, cheeks, 

 and throat. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 2-95, 

 tail 2-2, tarsus 0-9.5. 



Hah. Senegambia and N.E. Africa. 



a. c7 ad. sk. "West Africa. Purchased. 



h. Ad. sk. River Gambia. Gould Collection. 



c. [ 2 ] ad. sk. Jiogos Land. Mr. Esler. 



d. (S ad. sk. Bejook, Aug. 13, 1868 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(IF. Jesse). 



e. Ad. St. 



2. PentholBBa clericalis. 



Pentholjea clericalis, HartJ. Orn. Centralbl. vii. p. 91 (1882) ; id. J.f.O. 

 1882, p. 321 ; id. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, viii. p. 188 (1882). 



Adult male. Brilliant black ; a white mark on the forehead, and 

 another, large one on the wing, formed by the lesser wing-coverts. 

 Total length 5-7 inches, bill 0-4.5, wing 3-1, tail 2-15, tarsus 0-95. 

 (Hartlauh.) 



Adult female. Entirely uniform fuliginous. (^Hartlauh.) 



Hah. Equatorial Africa. 



