11. COSSTPHA. 41 



blackish. Total length 6-5 inches, cidmen 07, wing 3-35, tail 2-9 

 tarsus 1-05. ' 



Hah. Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. RiTer Danger, Gaboon. Henry Ausell, Esq. [P.]. 



8. Cossypha heuglini. 



Cossypha heuglini, H((,-tI. J. f. 0. 1866, p. 37 ; Heual. J. f. O 1869 

 ?• ^J^i,^':'ff'-^'-"-^^-0--^f>-- V- 374, A2>p. p. ciii (1869) ; Fmsch 

 4- Hartl Toff. Ostafr. pp. 283, 864 (1870) ; Shelley, F. Z. S. 1881 

 p. 5/4; ?■«?. i6?s, 1882, p. 250. ' 



Bessornis intermedia, Cab. hi Von der Deckeii's Reis. iii. pt. i n 22 

 pi. sii. (1869). ^ ^' ' 



Bessornis heugUni, Cab. J.f. 0. 1878, p. 219; Fischer 4- Reichen. t. c. 

 p. 268 ; tul op. at. 1879, p. .356. 



Adult. General colour above olive, the rump and tipper tail-coverts 

 orange-rufous ; wing-coverts grey, the lesser series Hghter ; on the 

 median and greater coverts, as well as on the inner secondaries a 

 slight wash of olive ; quiUs dusky, externaUy grey, lighter on the 

 primaries ; two centre taU-feathers oUve, dusky on the margins the 

 remainder orange, edged with dusky olive along the outer web' and 

 at the tip, the outer feather entirely dusky olive along the outer 

 web : crown of head and nape black, separated from the mantle by 

 an incomplete collar of orange, mixed with the olive of the back • 

 base of forehead, lores, feathers above and below the eye, ear-coverts" 

 and feathers behind the ear black, with a superciliary streak of 

 white reaching from the nape above the eye to the base of the fore- 

 head, where, however, it does not quite unite : cheeks, sides of neck, 

 and entire under surface of body, including the thighs, under taU- 

 coyerts, under wing-coverts, and asillaries bright orange a little 

 paler on the lower abdomen ; " biU black : tarsi and feet din-y 

 ashy brown: iris umber" (T. Ayres). Total length 7-2 inches 

 culmen 0- / 5, wing 3-45, tail 3-1, tarsus 1-2. 



Adult femcde. A little smaller, according to Von Heuglin. 



Hah. From Wau and Bongo in Xorth-eastern Africa down the 

 east coast to the Zambesi. 



a, b. Ad. 8k. Chobi Eiver, Zambesi. Dr. Bradshaw [C.]. 



9. Cossypha subrufescens. 



Cossypha subriifescens, Bocage, P. Z. S. 1869, p. 436; id. On,. An- 

 gola, p. .5.o3 (1881). 



Cossypha heuglini (non Hartl.), Bocage, Jorn. lAsb. 1870, p. 148 • 

 ^i'7% ^o£- ^- lf3 P- 1^8; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 25 (1871) ; id. 

 F. Z.&. 18/3 p. /I/ ; Bocage, Jorn. List. 1877, p. 68; Sharpe & 

 Bouvier Bull Soc Zqol. France, 1876, p. 43; Sharpe, ed. Layard 



sh^eSlil^firt'"'"' """■ ''''"'"'' P- ''^ (i^'i)' 



Bessornis intermedia {non Cab.), Feichen. J.f. O. 1877 p 30 



m'^1' JfT^'^'^'V, ^^'^-J- f- ^- 1^'^' PP- 205, 219; Feichen. 

 Mitth, Afnk. Gesellsch. Deutschl. i. p. 6, 



