11. C08STPHA. 45 



14. Cossypha humeralis. 



Bessonornis * humeralis, Smith, Report Exp. 8. Afr., App. p. 46 

 (1836); Grmj, Gen. B. i. p. 220 (1847); Bp. Consp. i. p. 301 

 (1850) ; Layanl, B. S. Afr. p. 132 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 265, no. 3876 (1869). 



Cossypha humeralis. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. 48 (1840) ; 

 Bianc. Spec. Zoul. Mosamh. fasc. xvi. p.' 400 (1865) ; Finsch Sf 

 Hartl. Vo(/. Ostafr. pp. 285, 865 (1870); Buchley, Ibis, 1874, 

 p. 370 ; Sharpe, e'd. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 228 (1877) ; Ayres, Ibis, 

 1879, p. 395 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1879, p. 396. 



Bessornis himieralis, Newton, Ibis, 1868, p. 266 ; Layard, Ibis, 1869, 

 p. 78. 



Adult. Head, mautle, and scapulars grey, with a slight tinge of 

 olive ou the back ; rump and upper tail-coverts orange-chestnut, 

 deeper on the latter ; tail also orange, mth a broad terminal band 

 of black, the outermost feather also blackish on the outer web, and 

 the two centre feathers entirely blackish ; wing-coverts black, with a 

 broad longitudinal white patch formed of the inner lesser and 

 median coverts and the outer web or the whole of a few of the 

 inner greater coverts ; quills blackish, with a narrow external 

 border of greyish buff ; over the eye a narrow white line, extending 

 from the base of the bill to the hinder ear- coverts ; lores, cheeks, 

 and entire side of face and of neck black ; chin and a patch on the 

 sides of the upper breast also black ; sides of body, vent, and under 

 tail-coverts pale orange-buff ; under wing-coverts white, the edge 

 of the wing black : " biU black ; legs brownish black : iris dark 

 hazel" {T. E. Bucliei/). Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 

 2-95, tail 2-9, tarsus 1-15. 



Hab. Interior of South-eastern Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. South Afi-ica. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Makalaka Counti-y. Dr. Bradshaw. 



15. Cossypha verticalis. 



Petrocincia albicapilla {7ion V.), Sivains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 284, pi. 32 ; 



Gordon, Contr. Orn. 1849, p. 8. 

 Cossypha albicapilla (non V.), Swains. Classif. B. ii. p. 233 (1837). 

 Bessonornis, sp., Gratj, Gen. B. i. p. 220 (1847) ; Vierth. Naum. 



1852, p. 52. 

 Cossypha verticalis, Hartl. Beitr. Orn. Westafr. p. 23 (1848) ; id. 



Orn. W.-Afr. p. 77 (1857) ; Sharpe, Ibis, "1870, p. 52 ; id. Cat. 



Afr. B. p. 26 (1871); Shelley if Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 287; 



Usshei; Ibis, 1874, p. 57 ; Beichen. J. f. O. 1875, p. 47 ; Nichols. 



P. Z.S. 1878, ^.129. 

 Bessornis mouacha, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 29 ; Antin. Cat. Ucc. 



p. 42 (1864) ; Salvad. Revist. Crit. coll. Antinori, p. 734. 

 Bessonornis swauisonii, Bp. Consp. i. p. 301 (1850). 

 Bessornis verticalis, Cab. Mm. Hein. Th. i. p. 8 (1850). 



Misprinted Bessonornis. 



