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difference in the oHve shadings of the back, while some of the spe- 

 cimens have brown edgings to most of the tail-feathers. 



Adult female. Like the male (von Heuglin). 



In yoxmg birds the chin is reddish grey, sprinkled with bro\^n ; 

 the white superciliarj' streak first begins over half of the ej-e, and 

 is also shorter ; crown dark greyish brown, with reddish-brown 

 shaft-streaks ; wiug-coverts and tertiary quills with reddish-yellow 

 spots on their ends, (von ITeuc/lin.) 



Hah. N.E. Africa, from Bogos Land throughout Abyssinia into 

 the Gala country. 



a. Ad. St. Abyssinia. Dr. E. Eiippell [C.]. 



b. Ad. St. Abyssinia. Sir W. C. Harris [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Goon-goona, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.l. 



March 19, 1868. 



d. Ad. sk. Bogos Land. Mr. Esler [0.]. 



11. Cossypha barbata. 



Cossypha barbata, Finsch ^- Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 864 (1870) ; 

 Bocage, Jorn. Lish. 1870, p. 342; Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. 

 p. 226 (1877); Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 260 (1881). 



Adult. Above ashy brown, the rump and upper tail-coverts pale 

 orange-rufous, forehead slightly tinged with rufous ; lores and a 

 short eyebrow, as well as a ring of feathers round the eye, white, 

 with a narrow margin of black running above the white eyebrow ; 

 feathers in front of the eye blackish ; ear-coverts dull sandy rufous ; 

 cheeks and throat white, with a long moustachial streak of duU grey 

 extending on each side of the throat for its whole length ; breast 

 and sides of the body pale orange, inclining to buff on the centre 

 of the chest and shading off into white on the lower abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts ; thighs white ; under wing-coverts also white, 

 the outermost spotted with black ; wings above ashy brown, incli- 

 ning to grey on the coverts, the least series being streaked with 

 white, the outermost broadly edged with the same ; primaries ex- 

 ternally margined with white, much broader near the base, which 

 is entirely white on these quills, so as to form a speculum ; tail 

 black, tipped with white, forming a small triangular spot on the 

 centre feathers and gradually increasing towards the outermost, the 

 external rectrix being white for its apical half. Total length 

 7 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3-2, tail 2-8, tarsus I'Oo. (Mus. 

 Lish.). 



Hab. Ben2;uela. 



12. Cossypha quadrivirgata. 



Thamnobia quadrivirgata, Reichen. Orn. Centralbl. 1879, p. 114: id. 



J./. O. 1879, p. 355. 

 Cossj^ha quadi-ivirgata, Sharpe, J.f. O. 1882, p. 845. 



Adxdt (type of species). General colour above brown, the lower 



