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XrUELTIB^. 



orange in the centre, with dull browu margins ; wings and tail 

 much as in the adult, but the wing-coverts tipped with yellowish 

 buff: under surface of body dull yellowish, the feathers with rather 

 broad circular margins of brown. 



Hah. South Africa, from the Cape Colony to the Transvaal. 



a. Ad. St. South Africa. 



b. Pull. St. South Afi'iea. 



c. Ad. sk. Table Mountain, Aug. 12, 



1865 (C. J. Andersson), 



d. Juv. sk. Table Mouutain ( C. J. A.) . 



e. cJ ad. sk. Kingwilliamstown, June 



30, 1877 (C. Neioby). 



f. $ ad. sk. Peri Bush, June 11, 1877. 



g. Ad. sk. Natal. 



h. c? ad. sk. Natal {Ayres). 



i. (S ad. sk. Transvaal {Ayres). 



k. Juv. sk. Transvaal (Ayres). 



I. S ad. sk. Macamac. 



Purchased. 



Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 

 Capt. H. Trevelyan [P.]. 



Capt. H. Trevelyan [P.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 F. A. Ban-att, Esq. [C.]. 



7. Cossypha cyanocampter. 



Bessonornis cy.anocampter, Bp. Consp. i. p. 301 (ex Cab, MS. in Mus. 



Berol.) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 265, no. 3877 (1869). 

 Cossvpha cyanocampter, Hartl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 360 ; id. Orn. West- 



Afr. p. 76 (1857) ; S/mipe, Ibis, 1870, p. 52 ; id. Cat Afr. B. 



p. 25 (1871) ; Shelley (§- Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 287 ; Ussher, Ibis, 



1874, p. 57. 



Adult. Upper sui'face olive-brovni, shading off into orange on the 

 rump, the upper tail-coverts bright orange-rufous, the scapulars 

 slightly tinged with grey ; head and nape, as well as the sides of 

 the face, cheeks, and ear-coverts, jet-black ; a distinct white stripe 

 running from the lores to the nape over the eye : least wing-coverts 

 and edge of the wing verditer-blue, forming a distinct shoulder- 

 patch, the rest of the wing dark brown, the feathers all externally 

 margined with bluish grey ; two centre tail-feathers dark brown, 

 the remainder bright orange, excepting the outer rectrix, which has 

 the outer web brown ; entire under surface of body bright orange, 

 paler on the centre of the abdomen. Total length 6 inches, culmen 

 0-7, wing 3-15, tail 2-8, tarsus 1-15. 



iSah. Gold Coast. 



a. Ad. sk. Fantee. 



b. Ad. sk. Fantee (Gov. Ussher). 



c. Jun. sk. Fantee (Atibitin). 



d. Ad. sk. Commendah, Cape Coast, July 



1872 (H. F. Blissett). 



Andrew Swanzy, Esq. [P."). 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Subspecies a. Cossypha periculosa. 



Cossypha cyanocampter, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 205 (nee Bp.). 

 Achilt. Similar to C. cyanocampter, but having the back slaty 



