36 TIMELIID^. 



Bessonoruis poensis, Fruser, Zool. Typ. pi. 37 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. 

 p. 301 (1850) ; Grmj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 265, no. 3873 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above slaty brown, the wing-coverts 

 browner and slightly inclining to olivaceous on their outer margins ; 

 quiUs brown, the primaries deep chestnut at base, forming a con- 

 spicuous wing-patch, the secondaries rather more olivaceous, the 

 chestnut base concealed; taU black, the three outer tail-feathers 

 marked with white towards the tip, the two outermost having a large 

 oblique patch extending nearly halfway up from the tip ; throat and 

 fore neck ashy grey, washed ■«"ith oUve, and shading off into orange- 

 chestnut on the rest of the under surface of the body, the under 

 wing-coverts being orange like the breast. Total length 8*8 inches, 

 culmen 0-7, wing4-15, tail 3-7, tarsus 1-05. 



Hah. West Africa : Gold Coast to Gaboon. 



a. Ad. St. Fernando Po. L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad.sk. Fantee (?7ss^;-). R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



c. Ad. sk. Fautee (Auhinn). R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 



d. e. Ad. sk. Camaroous Moimtaius, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Feb. 20, 1871 {Crossley). 

 f. Ad. sk. Gaboon ( Walker). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



3. Cossypha bicolor. 



Merle du Cap de Buuue Esperauce, Bmihent. PL EnL iv. pi. 221. 

 Muscicapa bicolor, Sparrm. Mm. Carlss. pi. 46 (1786) ; Simdev. Krit. 



Framsi., Sparrm. p. 9 (1857). 

 Muscicapa dichroa, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 949 (1788, e.v Sparrm.). 

 Le Reclameiu', Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii. pi. 104 (1802) ; Sundev. Krit. 



Framst., Levaill. p. 35 (1857). 

 Tm-dus reclamator, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xx. p. 280 (1820) 



Bonn, et Vieill. Eno. Meth. ii. p. 670 (1823). 

 Turdus vociferans, Stcains. Zool. Illustr. iii. pi. 179 (c. 1823). 

 Cossypha vociferans, Vigors, Zool. Journ. ii. p. 396 (1826). 

 Turdus uielanotis. Less. Traite, p. 410(1831) ; Pucher. Arch.duMus. 



vii. p. 377. 

 Turdus revocator, Temm. PI. Col. Tabl. Meth. p. 14 (1836). 

 Cossypha vociferus, Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 233 (1837). 

 Cossipha vocifera, Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, text to C. humerahs 



(1840). 

 Cossvpha reclamator, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1844, p. 100 ; Hartl. Orn. W.- 



Afr. p. 76 (1857) ; id. J.f. O. 1861, p. 162. 

 Rhipidura bicolor, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 258 (1846). 

 Bessonomis vociferans, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 220 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 301 (1850) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 130 (1867). 

 Bessornis vociferans, Cah. Mas. Hein. Th. i. p. 8 (1850) ; Gurney, 



Ihis, 1862, p. 1.52 ; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 317. 

 Cossvpha bicolor, Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 28 (1858) ; Finsch S,- Hai-tl. 



Vog. Ostafr. p. 281 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 25 (1871) ; 



Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 119 (1872) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1876, 



p. 427 ; Sfiarpe, ed. Layard B, S. Afr. p. 222 (1877). 

 Bessonornis bicolor. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 264, no. 3866 (1869). 



