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separated from the crown by a narrow blackish line ; feathers in 

 front of the eye dusky blackish ; below the eye a white spot ; ear- 

 coverts rusty brown, dusky on the upper and hinder margin ; cheeks 

 white, separated from the ear-coverts by a broad dusky streak, 

 and from the throat by another distinct moustache of dusky 

 black ; sides of neck like the head and hind neck ; fore neck and 

 chest white tinged with sandy buff, and mottled with triangular 

 spots of dusky blackish, inclining to narrow hair-like streaks on the 

 breast ; the latter white, as well as the abdomen ; sides of body and 

 flanks deep sandy buff; thighs white ; under tail-coverts light buff; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills dusky below, 

 whitish along the inner edge of the quills. Total length 5-2 inches, 

 culmen 0-6, wing 2--i5, tail 2-2, tarsus 0"95. 

 Hah. West Africa : Congo district. 



a. Ad. sk. Malimbe, Congo {Petit). Mons. A. Bouvier. 



(Type of species.) 



8. Erythropygia leucoptera. 



Salicaria leucoptera, liiipp. <SV/aY. Uebers. p. 38, Taf. 15 (1845). 



Calamodyta leucoptera, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 172 (1848). 



Aedon leucoptera, Bp. Consp. i. p. 286 (1850) ; Heuql. Si/st. Uebers. 

 p. 25 (1856); id. Ibis, lS6y, p. 86; Grai/, Uan'd-l. B. i. p. 211, 

 no. 2984 (1869); Ilew/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 279 (1869) ; Cab. 

 J.f. O. 1878, p. 221 ; Sharpe, J.f. O. 1882, p. 345. 



Adult. Above dark cinnamon ; underneath white, with the mou- 

 stachial region and breast obsoletely streaked with smoky grey ; 

 flanks washed with bright ferruginous ; upper part of head aud neck 

 grey, tlie sides of the neck paler ; a streak in front of the eye dusky ; 

 another superciliary streak, as well as one below the eye, and the 

 eyelids white ; an obsolete moustachial streak of white ; wings 

 smoky black, the wing-coverts and secondary quills conspicuously 

 and broadly margined with white, inner web of primaries whitish 

 towards the base ; under wing-coverts varied with white and smoky 

 brown ; tail-feathers bright cinnamon-rufous, the shafts intense 

 rufous-yeUow towards the base ; a broad subterminal band of smoky 

 black on the tail-feathers, the three outer feathers on each side 

 broadly tipped with white ; the outer web of the external feather 

 smoky, margined with white ; bill dusky, with the basal half of the 

 mandible yellow ; feet pale horu-colour ; iris dusky. Total length 

 6-5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-7, tail 2-6. (Heui/lin.) 



Hub. Shoa in N.E. Africa, extending to the Zanzibar district in 

 Eastern Africa. Thanks to Dr. Pcters's kindness, I have been 

 allowed to examine the specimen shot at Ndi by Dr. Hildebrandt. 

 It has a brown head, and not a grey one as would appear from 

 the figure given bj' E.iippell and from the description given by 

 Heuglin of E. Uucoptera from Abyssinia ; it would be necessary 

 to compare a typical example of the latter species before a 

 satisfactory conclusion can be arrived at with regard to the 

 Zanzibar bird. The Xdi specimen is very closely allied to my 

 E. ntJicLiada ; but the latter has the upper back brown, and not so 



