11. STIPHEOENIS. 173 



11. STIPHEORNIS *. 



Stiphrornis, Hard. J.f. 0. l8oo, p. 355 S. ervthiothoiax . 



Leg of Stijjkrornis eryihi-othorax, to show plain tarsus. 

 Bange. West Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No -white tips at the end of the tail ; throat 



and chest orange. 

 a'. Upper surface olive-brown ; ear-coverts and 



sides of face slate-colour erijthrothorax, p. 17,3. 



h'. Upper surface dark slaty grey; ear-coverts 



and sides of fiice blackish slate-colour galonensis, p. 174. 



b. Tail-leathers tipped -svith white ; no orange on 



throat alhoterminata, p. 174. 



1. Stiphrornis eiythrothorax. (Plate TI. fig. 1.) 



Stiphrornis enthrothorax, Hartl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 355 [ex Temm 

 MS.); id. Oni. W.-Afr. p. 63 (185"7) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 187; 

 id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 32 (1871, pt.) ; Vs^ier, Ibis, 1874, p. 58: 



Drymoica ei->-throthorax, Gray, Hund-I. B. i. p. 201, no ''»839 

 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above oHve-brown, rather greener on the 

 head and mantle ; lesser and median wing-coverts ashy grey ; 

 greater and primary-coverts, bastard wing, and quills dusky brown 

 edged with olive, the greater coverts shaded with grey ; rump and 

 upper tail-coverts rather browner than the back; tail-feathers 

 brown, edged with olive-brown ; lores with a silky white spot 

 surrounded by a line of grey, but scarcely enough to be called an 

 eyebrow ; feathers in front of eye, eyelid, fore part of cheeks, and 

 base and edge of chin black; ear-eovcrts and hinder cheeks 'dark 

 slaty grey ; throat and fore neck bright orange ; remainder of under 

 surface white ; sides of breast and flanks ashy grey ; thighs ashy ; 

 under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts white ; edge of wing 

 ashy grey ; axillaries ashy grey edged with white : quiUs belo\y 

 dusky, inner edges ashy whitish. Total length 4 inches, culmen 

 0, wing 2-55, tail 1-65, tarsus 0-85. 



Youny. Differs from adult in its pale bill, greener colour, and 

 tawny buff spots at the end of the wing-coverts and secondaries ; 

 throat white ; lower throat and fore neck with a patch of pale 



, *^J^'''^ geniig, with its spotted young and plain tarsus, shows affinities with 

 the ihamnooKB. 



