166 TIMELTtD^. 



9. CAMAROPTERA. 



Ijpe. 

 Camaroptera, Sundev. (Efv. K. I'et.-Ahad. Fiirh. 



Siochh. 1850, p. 103 . ." C. siindevalli. 



Syncopta, Cahanis, J.f. 0. 1853, p. 109 C. brevicaudata. 



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Head of Caniaropiera olivacea. 

 Range. Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Under tail-coverts -white ; thighs tawny yellow. 

 a' . Entire back olive-green. 



a" . Head dull oUve-green : forehead grey . . olivacea, p. 166. 

 h". Head ashy, tinged with bright rufous . . sah:ador<e, p. 167. 

 b '. Back grrey or brown ; scapulars and wings 

 olive yellowish. 

 a". Throat and breast ashy grey; abdomen 



whitish ; flanks grey brevicaudata, p. 168. 



b". Chin and abdomen white ; throat, breast, 



and sides of body bufty brown sundevalli, p. 169. 



h. Under tail-coverts duU olive-yellow like the rest 

 of the under siu'face of body ; above dull olive- 

 green concolor, p. 170. 



c. Under tail-coverts brilliant yellow like the 

 thighs; lores, eyebrow, and ear-coverts 

 bright. yellow superciliaris, p. 171. 



1. Camaroptera olivacea*. 



La Fauvette olivert, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. in. pi. 125 (1802) ; Sundev. 



Krit. FramsL, Levaill. p. 38 (1857). 

 Sylvia olivacea, Vieill. K. Diet. dHist. Nat. xi. p. 105 (1817, ex 



Levaill.). 

 Sylvia brachyura, Bonn, et Vieill Enc. Meth. ii. p. 459 (1823). 

 Eremomela brachvm-a, Sundev. Krit. Framst., Levaill. p. 38 (1857) ; 



Grill, Zool. Anfeckn. pp. 10, 28(1859); He^iql. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 



p. 285 (1869) : Finsch ^- Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p."241 (1870). 

 Di-vmoica brachvura (pt.), Lai/ard, B. S. Afr. p. 95 (1867) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 202, no. 2851 (1869). 

 Camaroptera brachvura, Finsch ^- Hartl. Viiq. Ostafr., App. p. 862 



(1870) ; Sharpe, 'Cat. Afr. B. p. 33 (1871); id. ed. Layard B. S. 



Afr. p. 294 (1876). 



* Levaillant's ' Olivert' can only be the species here identified with it, though 

 the long wings and white thigh-feathers are not strictly true to nature. 



