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'. WinfT-co verts dipped with white, forming a 

 double wing-bar ; fore neck and chest 

 streaked with blackish 

 e". Head sandy brown, very little darker than 



the back zambesiana, p. / 8. 



f. Head dusky brown, contrasting with the 



back, which is rufous-brown riifcauda, p. / 8. 



g". Head grey, contrasting with rufous back . . leucoptera, p. i J. 



1. Erythropygia coryphaeus. 



Le Coriphee, LevaiU. Ois. (TAfr. iii. pi. 120 (1802) ; Sundcv. Krit. 



Fravisf., Levaill. p. 37 (1857). 

 Sylvia coryphaeus. Less. Traiie, p. 419 (1831). 

 I)rj-moiea"corvphea, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 163 (1848); Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 282 (1850). 

 Thamnobia coryphasus, Cab. Mus. Hcin. Th. i. p. 40 (1850) ; Grill, 



Zoo}. Anteckk. p. 29 (1858) ; Gray, Hand-l.B. i. p. 211, no. 2990 



(1869) ; Gurneij in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 93 (1872) ; Shellexj, 



Ibis, 1875, p. 72. 

 Bradypterus coryphaeus, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 100 (1867). 

 Aedon coryphfeu?, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 29 (1871); id. ed. Layard 



B. S. Afr. p. 251 (1877). 

 Erj'thropygia coryphaeus, Sharpe, J.f. 0. 1882, p. 345. 



Adult. General colour above brown, lighter on the lower back and 

 rump ; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills sepia-brown, externally edged with brown like the back ; 

 upper tail-coverts and centre tail-feathers chocolate-brown, all but 

 the middle ones broadly tipped with white ; crown of head a little 

 more dusky and ashy brown than the back ; in front of the eye 

 a dusky spot ; lores white, and also an eyebrow extending to 

 beyond "the eye; leathers round the eye whitish, except in front 

 and behind, where they assimilate to the adjoining feathers : ear- 

 coverts brown like thehcad ; below the eye a blackish spot; cheeks 

 whitish, with dusky tips to the feathers ; sides of neck brown like 

 the head ; throat dull white ; lower throat, breast, and abdomen, 

 as well as the sides of the body, flanks, and thighs, fulvescent broAvn, 

 shaded with ashy ; fore neck and chest ashy ; lower abdomen 

 ■whitish ; under tail-coverts rather darker fulvous-brown, tipped M-ith 

 whitish ; under wing-coverts and axillaries ashy ; edge of wing 

 mottled with brown bases to the feathers ; quills light brown below, 

 inner edges ashy brown. Total length G-6 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 

 3-1, tail 3-1, tarsus 1-15. 



Winter flumage. More dcHcate than the full plumage ; the head, 

 neck, sides of face, and under surface of body being light ashy-grey, 

 fulvescent on the sides of body and flanks. 



The you)}g bird is brown' above, fulvescent below, mottled with 

 bars of dusky brown on the lower surface, and barred with fulvous- 

 and dusky brown on the upper ; rump and upper tail-coverts a little 

 more rufescent. 



Hah. South Africa. 



