84 TIIIELIID^. 



tail- coverts like the back ; tail-feathers sooty black, indistinctly 

 barred across under certain lights, the outer feathers very broadly 

 tipped with white ; lores, sides of face, and under surface of body 

 sooty black ; under tail-coverts like abdomen, but tipped with 

 white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries sooty black, the edge of 

 the wing barred with white ; quills rufous below, light brown to- 

 wards the ends ; " bill black ; feet dusky horn-colour ; iris umber- 

 brown *' (Von Hnu/lin), Total length 7'2 inches, culmen 0-75, 

 wing 3*3, tail 4, tarsus l-l. 



Adult female. Like the male in colour, but rather browner in 

 tint. Total length 7'5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-3, tail 3*9, 

 tarsus 1"05. 



Young female. Very similar to the old female bird, but still 

 browner, and having the under tail-coverts very indistinctly and 

 narrowly tipped with white. 



Hab. North-eastern Africa and Senegambia. 



(S 1 ad. sk. Nubia. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



cJ ] ad. sk. White Nile. Sir Samuel Baker [P.]. 



c.[2] ad. sk. Gabsa, Bogos. W. Esler [C.]. 



d. Ad. sk. Between Kokai and Gelamet, F. D. Godman and 0. 



Aug. 10, 1868 ( W. Jesse). Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



e. S ad. sk. Koomaylee, Feb. 13, 1868. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



f. 2 iuv. sk. Ailat, June 25, 1868. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



g. 9 ad. sk. Zoulla, Annesley Bay, W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



Feb. 4, 1868. [0.]. 



h, i. Ad. St. White Nile. F. Galton, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Cercotrichas melanoptera. 



Sphenura er}i:hroptera, var. melanoptera, Hempr. ^ Ehr. Symb. 



Phi/s., Aves, fol. dd. 

 Argya luctuosa, Lafr. 

 Cercotrichas luctuosa. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 41 (1850) ; Hartl. 



Oni. W.-Afr. p. 70 (1857) ; Heuc/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. pp. 281, Ixxvii 



(1869). 

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



Similar to C. erytliroptera, but differing in having the quills uni- 

 form black (Heuglin). 



Hab. S. Arabia and Dongola. Said also to occur in Senegal. 



24. CITTOCINCLA. 



Type.- 

 Cercotrichas, pt.. Bote, Isis, 1881, p. 542. 



Kittacincla, Gould, P. Z. S. 1836, p. 7 C. tricolor. 



Cittocincla, Sclater, Ibis, 1866, p. 109 (nom. emend.) .... C. tricolor. 



Cf. Sharpe, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) x. p. 47 (1882). 



