350 TIMET riD.?:. 



ITah. Damara Land, whence it ranges into Mossamedes and 

 Benguela. 



a. Ad. sk. Oruaniru river, Damara R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Laud, Oct. 30, 1866 (C. J. (Type of C. grayi.) 



Andersson.) 



h. Ad. St. Damara Land. C.J. Andevsson, Esq. 



PSOPHODES. 



[C.]. 



Type. 



Psophodes, Viff. 4" Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. -329 



(1826) r. crepitans. 



llanye. Australia. 



Key to the Species. 



a. LTnder surface of body black, with some white 



mottling on the centre of the breast crepitans, p. -joO. 



b. Under sui-face of body greyish brown ; throat 



black ni(/ro(/iilari.s, p. 3.51 . 



1. Psophodes crepitans. 



White-cheeked Crow, Lath. Gen. Syn. Suppl. ii. p. 118 (1801). 

 Coach-whip Flycatcher, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Suppl. ii. p. 222 (1801). 

 Corvus olivaceils. Lath. Lnd. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. xxvi (1801). 

 Muscicapa crepitans, Lath. lnd. Orn. Suppl. ii. p. U (1801). 

 Pica olivacea, Vieill. X. Diet, d' Hist. Xat. xxvi. p. 129 (1818). 

 Psophodes crepitans, Vig. Sf Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 329 



(1826) ; Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 128 (1846) ; Goidd, B. Austr. fol. 



pi. 15 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 216 (1850) ; Reiclienb. Vog. Xeuholl. 



p'66 (1850); Gould, Handh. B. Austr. i.t^. 312 (1865); Grmj, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 284, no. 4204 (1869) ; Diggles, Orn. Austr. pi. 43. 



fio-. 2 (c. 1870) ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. p. 184 



(1878). 

 Pica gularis, Wagler, Syst. Av., Pica, sp. 13 (1827). 



Adult. General colour above olive-green from the nape doM-n- 

 wards ; wing-coverts like the back, excepting the bastard-wing 

 feathers and primary-coverts, which are ashy blackish, the latter 

 slightly edged with olive-green ; quiUs dusky browu, externally 

 olive-o-reen, the primaries browner on their outer webs, the inner- 

 most secondaries entirely washed with olive-green ; tail-feathers olive- 

 green, dusky blackish on the inner webs, the outermost feathers with 

 a spot of white at the tip, the rest tipped with dull ashy ; head much 

 crested, and nape black, as well as the lores, feathers below the eye, 

 ear-coverts, and sides of neck ; cheeks and sides of throat white, form- 

 ino- a broad patch ; throat and under surface of body black, more ashy 

 brown on the flanks, the sides of the breast washed with olive-green ; 

 feathers of chin and upper throat margined with white: centre of breast 

 and of abdomen mottled with white, with which many of the feathers 

 are broadly tipped : under tail-coverts olive-green ; axillaries olive- 

 o-reen • under wing-coverts blackish, the lower series ashy brown : 



