18. PIXAHORXIS. 401 



18. PINARORNIS. „, 



iype. 



Piuarornis, Sharpe, cd. Layard's B. S. Afi: p. 230 (1875) P. plumosua. 

 Range. Zambesi region. 



]. Pinarornis plumosus. (Plale IX ) 



Pinarornis plumosus, Sharpe, ed. Lai/ard's B. S. Afr. p. 230 (187o) ; 

 Shellei/, Ibis, 1882, p. 251. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above and below sooty- 

 brown, a few of tlie frontal plumes, the lores, and the throat edged 

 -with greyish white; wings and tail darker than the body, and 

 ap[)roaching to black, the primaries with a very large spot of white 

 ou the inner webs, and the three outer tail-feathers with a large 

 spot of white at the tip ; bill and legs black. Total length 10-2 

 inches, culraen 0-95, wing •4-2, tail 5-5, tarsus 1-25. 



Hab. Zambesi and Mashoona country in S.E. Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Victoria Falls, Zambesi. Purchased. (Type 



of species.) 



19. SIBIA. T^p^ 



Sibia, ITodffs. J. A. S. Bern/, riii. p. 37 (1839; S. picoides. 



Alcopus, Hodffs. J. A. S. Beng. x. p. 27 (1841, worn, emend.) S. picoides. 

 Heterophasia, Blyth, J. A. !S. Beng. xi. p. 187 (1842). . . . S. picoides. 



Ramje. Eastern Himalayas, extending to Bootan and the hills of 

 Assam, Burmah, and Tenasserim, reappearing in Sumatra. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Flanks slaty grey like the rest of the under surface 



of body, the uuder tail-coverts of the same colour; 



wing-spot longitudinal, nearly as long as the tarsus incoides. p. 401. 



b. Flanks browner than the throat, which is slaty grey; 



vent and under tail-coverts dull whitish ; wing- 

 spot smaller and oblong, about half the length of 

 the tarsus siniiUima, p. 402. 



1. Sibia picoides. 



Sibia picaoides, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mtis., Passeres, pis. 195. 



19G (no. 246) ; id. J. A. S. Beng. viii. p. 38 (1839) ; Gray, Cat. 



Mamm. etc. Nepal pres. Hodijs. p. 88 (1846) ; id. Gen. B. i. p. 238 



(1847); Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 98 (1849): Hor.-^f. ^• 



Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 216 (1854) ; Jerd. B. Lid. ii. 



p. 55 (1863) ; Gray, Iland-I. B. i. p. 273, no. 3998 (1869) ; Hume. 



Nests ^- E(/(/s Lid. B. p. 268 (1873); Biyth ^- Wald. B. Biirm. 



p. 108 { 187"5*) ; Hume Sf Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 294 ; Hmne, Str. 



F. 1879, p. 97 ; Oates, B. Brit. Barm. p. 43 (1883). 

 Heterophasia cuculopsis, Blyth, J. A. S'. Beng. si. p. J 87 (1842). 

 Actinodura picaoides, Blyth, J. A. 'S. Beng. xii. p. 958 (1843). 

 Alcopus picaoides, Ilodt/.i. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844); Bp. 



Consp. 1. p. 260 (1850). 



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