19. CICnLADTISA. 69 



1. Aedonopsis signata. 



Cossypha si^nata, Sinidrr. Qift\ K. Vet.-Ahad. Fork. Stockh. 1850, 



p. "101 ; Sharpe, ed. Lmjard B. S. Afr. p. 22!) (1877). 

 Bessonornis sig-uatiis, Layuvd, B. S. Afr. p. 131 (18(37). 

 Aedon signata, Gjai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 211, no. 2983 (18G9). 



Adult. General colour above chocolate-brown, shading off into 

 lighter and more fulvous-brown on the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts; upper wing-coverts greyish, the inner ones slightly edged 

 with olive-brown, the edge of the wings slightly, and the bastard 

 wing broadly, tipped with white ; primar}'-coverts blackish ; quills 

 blackish brown, the primaries edged with white, the secondaries 

 with brown, the iunermost resembling the back ; primaries white 

 at the base of the outer web, forming a conspicuous alar speculum ; 

 two centre tail-feathers olive-brown, the others blackish, broadly 

 tipped with white and washed with olive-brown, especially near 

 the base ; lores blackish ; over the eye a distinct white eyebrow, 

 surmounted by a narrow black line drawn from the lores to above 

 the eye ; round the eye a circlet of whitish feathers ; ear-coverts 

 brown, darker below the eye ; cheeks and sides of neck greyish, 

 with a slight indication of a darker malar stripe ; under surface of 

 body white, the throat circumscribed by a band across the fore 

 neck, which is greyish brown like the sides of the body ; the breast 

 is also ashy, and is separated from the darker throat-band by a 

 somewhat indistinct band of white ; under wing-coverts white with 

 brown bases, giving a mottled appearance to the edge of the wing ; 

 quills dusky below, white at base of inner web. Total length 7"3 

 inches, culmen 0'S5, wing 3-25, tail 3"2, tarsus 1-15. 



Hah. S.E. Africa. 



a. Ad. sir. South Africa. Gould Collection. 



h. Ad. sk. Kingwilliamstown {C. Capt. H. Trevelyan [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.]. 



d. Ad. St. South Africa. Sir A. Smith. 



e. Ad. st. South Africa. Zoological Society. 

 /. Ad. st. Natal. Purchased. 



19. CICHLADUSA. 



Typo. 

 Cichladusa, Peters, Mmiatsb. k. Akad. Berlin, 1864, p. 352. .C. arcuata 



Foot of Cichladusa arcuata. 

 Eaiuje. Confined to Africa. 



