11. C0S8YPHA. 37 



Adult. General colour above slaty-grey, shading off into orange 

 on tlie rump, the upper tail- coverts bright orange ; quills blackish, 

 externally washed with grey, the wing-coverts washed with bluish 

 grey ; two centre tail-feathers black, all the remainder bright 

 orange, the external feathers blackish on the outer web, and some of 

 the others with narrow blackish margins : lores, sides of face, and 

 ear-coverts black ; cheeks, sides of neck, and the entire under 

 surface of body bright orange ; the under wing-coverts uniform with 

 the breast ; the lower surface of the quills ashy brown, inclining to 

 greyish white near the base of the inner web ; " bill black ; tarsi 

 and feet light pinkish brown ; iris very dark brown "' (Ayres). 

 Total length 7*3 inches, culmcn 0-7, wing 3'65, tail 3"2, tarsus 

 1-2. 



Hab. South Africa from the Knysna to Natal and the Transvaal, 

 ranging to the Zambesi and Central Damara-land. Also reported to 

 have occurred on the Congo and at Sierra Leone. 



a. Ad. St. Port Natal. Purchased. 



b, c, d. Ad. sk. Kingwilliamstown. Capt. Trevelyan [P.]. 

 e. Ad. sk. South Afi.-ica. R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 



/. S ad. sk. Otjimbinque, Damara- R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



land, Dec. 11, 1865 

 (C J. Anderssmi), 



4. Cossypha natalensis. 



Cos.sypha natalensis, Smith, III Zool. S. Afr. pi. Lx. (1840) : Haril. 



P. Z. S. 1860, p. 110; id. J.f. O. 1861, p. 162 ; Bianc. Spec. Zool. 



Mosamb. fasc. xvi. p. 400 (1865) ; Bocaye, Jorn. Lisb. 1868, p. 42 ; 



Finsch Sc Hartl. Voq. Ostafr. pp. 283, 865 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. 



p. 25 (1871) ; SheU'etj, Ibis, 1876, p. 73 : Shcaye, ed. LaycmVs B. S. 



Afr. p. 223 (1877) ; Sharpe ^- Bouvier, Bull. Sac. Zool. France, 1876, 



p.' 43 ; Sharpe, in Oates's Matabele Land, App. B. p. 309 (1881) ; 



Gtmiey, Ibis, 1882, p. 72. 

 Bessonornis natalensis. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 220 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 301 (1850) ; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 131 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 264, no. 3867 (1869), 

 Bessorms natalensis, Cab. Mns. Hein. Th. i. p. 8 (1850) ; Reichen. 



J.f. O. 1877, p. 30 : Fischer ^- Reichen. J.f. O. 1879, p. 356. 



Adult. Upper surface of body bluish grey, the mantle strongly 

 washed with orange, the scapulars clearer grey; head and hind 

 neck brownish orange, waved across with narrow greyish lines, 

 caused by the sudden appearance of the bases to the feathers ; lores, 

 eyebrow, sides of face, and entire under surface of body orange, 

 rather paler on the abdomen ; all the wing-coverts clear bluish grey, 

 blackish on the inner web ; quills dull brown, externally shaded 

 with grey, the secondaries with a further external border of pale 

 orange as on the back ; tail-feathers very pointed, the two centre 

 ones dark brown, the others dull orange, the outermost broadly 

 margined with brown on the outer web : bill horn-brown ; legs 



