23. CERCOTRICHAS. 83 



23. CERCOTRICHAS. 



Tvpe. 

 Oercotrichas, pt., Boie, Isis, 1831, p. o-42 {descr. nidld : typo 



hand indivato). 

 Cercotrichas, Finsch ^- Sartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 250 (1870). . C. podobe. 



Cf. Sharpe, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) x. p. 48 (1882). 



Foot of Cerent richas podobe. 

 Jiange. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Quills rufous near the base podobe, p. 83. 



b. QuilLs entirely black melanoptera, p. 84. 



1. Cercotrichas podobe. 



Le Podobe du Senegal, Buff. Hist. Xat. Oi-s. iii. p. 368. 



Merle du Senegal, appeUe I'odobe, Daubent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 354. 



Turdus podobe. P. L. 8. Miill. Sy-st. Nat., Anhang, p. 145 (1776) ; Cass. 



P)-oc. Philad. Acad. 1864, p. 251. 

 Rufous-vringed Thrush, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 55 (1783). 

 Turdus erythropterus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 835 (1788). 

 Sphenura eiTthroptera, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 41 (1823) ; Hempr. Sf 



Ehrenb. Symb. Phys., Aves, fol. dd. (1828). 

 Cercotrichas erythroptera, Boie, Isis, 1631, p. 542 ; Riipp. Syst. 



Uebers. p. 60 (1845) ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 41 (1850) ; Heuyl. 



Syst. Uebers. p. 30 (1856) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 69 (1857) ; 



Hetigl. Ibis, 18.59, p. 341; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 161 ; Brehm, 



Beis. Habesck, pp. 214, 301 (1863) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O. Afr. pp. 280, 



Ixxvii (1869) ; Finsch ^- Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. -p. 200 (1870) ; Blanf. 



(ienl. .y Zool. Abyss, p. 360 (1870) ; Finsch, Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 234 



(ls70); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 29 (1871); Antin. ^- Saload. 



Viagg. Bogos, p. 107 (1873). 

 Ai-gya erythroptera, Lafr. ^•d'Orb. Did. ii. p. 126; Hartl. Beitr. 



Orn. Westafr. p. 23 (l84,S). 

 Podobeus eiytlu-opterus, Less. Descr. Manim. et Ois. p. 302 (1847). 

 Melfenomis? erythropterus, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1850, p. 217. 

 Thamnobia podobe, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 211, no. 2993 (1869). 



Adult male. General colour aboye sooty black, the lesser and 

 median wiug-coyerts like the back ; greater coyerts, as well as the 

 bastard-wing feathers and primary--coyerts, sooty black, with the 

 base of the inner web rufous ; quills brown, the primaries rufous 

 except at the tip, and light brown also along the outer web; upper 



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