168 TIMELnD^. 



with grej- ; under wing-coverts white, washed with fulvous, the 

 margin of the wing more of a greenish yellow ; thigh-feathers rufous 

 huiF; bill and feet pale, the culmeu dusky hom-colour towards the 

 tip. Total length about 4-5 inches, bill from forehead 0-6, wing 1-9, 

 tail 1-55, tarsus 0-95. (Ifc'irflin.) 



Hub. N.E. Africa : on the Atbara river and in Sennaar {Heuglin). 



3. Camaroptera brevicaudata. 



Sylvia brevicaudata, CretzscJim. in Riipp. Atlas, Vog. p. 53, pi. 356 



(1826) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 174 (1848). 

 Ficedula brevicauda, RUpp. Si/sf. Uebers. p. 57 (1845). 

 Sylvia clirysocnema, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 

 Camaroptera brevicaudata, Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 



1850, p. 103 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 258 (1850) ; Huiil. Orn. W.-Afi: 



p. (32 (1857) ; Heugl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 41, 18U3, p. 163 ; Brehm, 



Reis. n. Hnhesch, pp. 212, 288 (1863) ; Heuql Ibis, 18G9, p, 138; 



id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 281 (1869); Finsch, J. f. 0. 1869, p. 355; 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 376; Finsch, Tr. Z. S. vii. p. 231 (1870); 



Blmif. Geol. 8f Zool. Abi/ss. p. 376 (1870); Finsch S^- Hartl. Vog. 



Ostafr. p. 241 (1870) ; 'Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 33 (1871, pt.) ; 



Shelley 4' Bucklet/, Ibis, 1872, p. 287 ; Antin. S,- Salvad. Viagg. Bogos, 



p. 105 (1873) ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 58 ; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1875, 



p. 50 ; id. J. f. O. 1877, p. 29 ; Sharpe c^ Bouvier, Bid!. Soc. Zool. 



France, 1876, p. 307; Fischer <§■ Reichen. J. f. 0. 1879, p. 354; 



Hartl. AbhandJ. nat. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 90 (1881) ; Pelz. Sitz. 



K. Akad. Wien, p. 144 (1881). 

 Drymoica griseoviridis, von Midi. Naum. i. Heft 4, p. 27 (1851). 

 Svncopta brevicaudata, Cab. J. f. O. 1853, p. 110; Hartl. J.f. O. 



' 1854, p. 17 ; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 23 (1856). 

 Orthotomus chrysocnemis, i«c/(i. Nomtmcl. Av. Berol. p. 33 (1854). 

 Ortliotonius damans, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 24 (1856). 

 SjTicopta tincta, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1856, p. 325. 

 Camaroptera tincta, Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 271 (1857) ; Cass. Proc. 



Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 38; Heine ^ J. f. O. 1860, p. 130; Hartl. 



J. f. O. 1861, p. Ill ; Reichen. J. f. 0."l877, p. 29; Bocage, Orn. 



Angola, p. 555 (1881). 

 Camaroptera olivacea (non Sttndev.), Cab. in Von der Decken!s Reis. 



iii. pt. i. p. 23 (1869). 

 Drymoica brevicaudata, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 203, no. 2864 (1869). 

 Drymoica tincta, Gray, t. c. p. 203, no. 2865 (1869). 



Arlult. General colour above ashy grey, the lower back a little 

 lighter ; rump crossed with a silky white bar, the long plumes being 

 tipped with silky white ; scapulars and wing-coverts olive-yellow ; 

 quills light brown, edged externally with olive-yellow ; upper tail- 

 coverts and tail-feathers light brown, narrowly fringed with whitish 

 at the tips ; crowii of head ashy like the back ; lores hoary ; feathers 

 round the eye and ear-coverts light brown, with dull whitish shaft- 

 lines ; cheeks, throat, fore neck, and breast ashy grey, the cheeks 

 and chin being obscurely streaked with white ; abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts white ; sides of body and flanks washed with light ashy ; 

 thighs tawny yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillarics white, 

 washed with yellow ; edge of the M'ing bright yellow ; quills below 



