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rufous for two thirds of their length,the innermost secondaries fulvous- 

 brown ; upper tail-coverts tawny rufous ; taU-leathers tawny rufous 

 or chestnut, slightly edged externally with brown, broader on outer 

 feathers ; crown of head more ashjf brown than the back, especially 

 on forehead, where the feathers have dark brown centres ; lores and 

 a distinct eyebrow white, the latter slightly greyish behind ; eyelid 

 white ; in front of the eye a dusky spot ; ear-coverts and cheeks 

 ■white, brown along the upper edge of the ear-coverts ; throat and 

 under surface creamy buff, separated from the cheeks by a broad 

 moustache formed of black spots ; fore neck, chest, and breast with 

 rounded subterminal spots of black ; abdomen uniform ; sides of 

 body and flanks washed with tawny buff and streaked with blackish 

 brown ; thighs ashy white, mottled with blackish ; under tail- 

 coverts uniform light tawny buff; under M'ing-coverts huffy whitish, 

 mottled with dusky bases to the feathers ; axillaries light tawny 

 buff ; quills below rufous at base, dusky brown towards their ends. 

 Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 0'7, wing 3'35, tail 3'4, tarsus 1. 

 {Mus. G. E. Shelhii.) 



Hah. Country of the Kidj Negroes on the Bahr el Djebel in 

 Noith-eastern Afiica, ranging down the east coast to the Zanzibar 

 district. 



3. Cichladusa ruficauda. 



Bradyomis ruficanda, Hartl. Oni. West-Afr. p. 66 (1857, ex Verr. 



AI'SS.) ; Bocaye, Jorn. Lisb. 1867, p. 130. 

 Cichladusa ruficauda, Hengl. Oni. N.O.-Afr. p. 373 (1869) ; Finsch 



S,- Hartl. Voff. Ostafr. p. 286 (1870); Sharpe, ed. Laijard B. S. 



Afr. p. 230 (1875)"; Cab. J.f. 0. 1875, p. 234 : Sharpe 8,- Bouvier, 



Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 46 (1870); Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, 



p. 30 ; Bocage, Orn. d'Anffola, p. 255 (1877). 



Adult male. General colour above rufous-brown, brighter rufous 

 on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ; crown of head 

 rufous like the back ; hind neck slightly tinged with ashy ; lesser 

 and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts deeper 

 rufous and inchuing to chestnut-brown ; bastard-wing feathers 

 blackish brown ; primary-coverts brown, narrowly fringed with 

 reddish brown ; quills dusky brown, the primaries narrowly mar- 

 gined with ashy, the secondaries with reddish brown, the inner- 

 most entirely chestnut-brown ; tail rufous ; lores and a tolerably 

 distinct eyebrow ashy grey ; cheeks, sides of face, and ear-coverts 

 buffy whitish, the latter washed with ashy grey; throat huffy 

 white ; remainder of under surface ashy, paler on the abdomen ; 

 sides ashy ; under tail-coverts light fulvous ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries light fulvous, those near the edge of the wing 

 ashy ; quills dusky brown below, rufescent along the inner web ; 

 " bill black ; tarsus light brown ; feet blackish ; iris chestnut " 

 (Bocaye). Total length 7-4 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-45, tail 3-2, 

 tarsus 1. 



