150 TXMELrxp.K. 



p. 283 (1850) ; Heuyl. Si/st. Uehers. p. 22, no. 177 (1850); Grarj, 



Iland-l. B. i. p. 199, no. 2778 (18G9) ; Blanf. Geol. %■ Zool. Abyss. 



p. 374 (1870) ; Flnsch, Tr. Z. &. vii. p. 322 (1870) ; A7itin. Sr Salmid. 



Viagg. Bogos, p. 109 (1873). 

 Drymoeca sylvetta, Hmgl. J.f. O. 18G3, p. 165. 

 Drymceca pulchella, lieugl. Ibis, 1809, p. 92; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 



p. 243 (1809), App. p. Ixxii (1871). 

 Phyllolais pulchella, Hurtl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 90 



(1881) ; id. op. cit. viii. p. 190 (1882). 



Adult. General colour above ashy olive-brown ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back ; median and greater coverts brown ; bastard wing 

 and primary-coverts dark sepia-brown ; quills brown, externally 

 edged with olive, whiter on the margin of the primaries; on each 

 side of the rump a half-concealed tuft of silky white plumes ; upper 

 tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers dark brown, barred across 

 with dusky under certain lights, edged with olive and narrowly 

 tipped with yellowish white ; outer feathers yellowish white on the 

 outer webs ; lores, feathers round the eye, and the ear-coverts yel- 

 lowish buff, tho latter ashy on their upper and hinder margins ; 

 cheeks and underparts yellowish buff, a little paler on the throat 

 and under tail-coverts ; breast a little stained with tawny ; under 

 wing-coverts white, tinged with tawny near tho edge of the wing; 

 axillaries like the breast ; quills below brown ; inner edge of quills 

 whitish ; " bill reddish yellow, culmen and point of the bill blackish ; 

 tarsus yellowish, iris yellowish red" (Neur/Un). Total length 3"8 

 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 1-85, tail 1-65, tarsus Q-Go. 



Hab. South-eastern Africa. 



u. Ad. sk. Anseba valley. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



6. EROESSA. 



Type. 



Eroessa, Ilartl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 218 E. tenella. 



Damia, Pollen, MSS. 



Neomixis, Sharjte, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 195 E. stiiatigula . 



Bill of Eroessa tenella. 

 Range. Madagascar. 



Key to the Spevies. 



a. Tail-feathers olive-green or brown, with friuges of 

 yellow at the tip and along the end of the inner web 

 of the outer tail-feathers. 



