468 TIMELIID.E. 



cj'cbrow and sides of neck ; base of forehead and lores with blackish 

 shaft-linos ; a broad whito eyebrow continued onto the sides of the 

 nock and behind the ear-coverts in the form of ovate white drops 

 bordered with black ; car-coverts black ; cheeks and throat pure 

 white ; sides of neck and breast ashy grey ; sides of body and 

 abdomen rufescent brown, clearer on the under tail-coverts and 

 thighs ; under wing-coverts and axillaries fulvous-brown, more or 

 less washed with a^hy ; quills dusky brown below, ashy fulvous 

 along the inner web ; " bill black above, grey below ; legs and feet 

 umber-brown; iris crimson-lake " (0(/?e). Total length 6 inches, 

 culmen 0-85, wing 2-7, tail 2-5, tarsus 1-05. (Mas. H. II. Godwhi- 

 Austen.) 



Hub. Sadiya, Assam. 



This species is rather aberrant in form, having a thicker bill and 

 shorter tail than the other Adinodiirce. 



30. NEOCICHLA. 



Type. 



Neociclila, Slutrpc, cd. Layard'&B. S. Afr. p. 215 (1875) N. gutturalis. 

 Range. S.W. Africa. 



1. Neocichla gutturalis. 



Crateropus gutturalis, Bocaye, Juni. Lisb. xii. p. 272 (1871). 

 Neocichla gutturalis, Shatye, cd. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 215 ; Bocayc, 

 Orn. Anyola, p. 253, tab. 1. fig. 1 (1877). 



Adult female (type of species). Head and neck grey ; back and 

 scapulars brown, with straw-coloured margins to the feathers ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ashy, somewhat inclining to 

 creamy brown ; wing-coverts brown glossed with purple, the outer 

 ones purplish black ; quills purplish black, sliading oif into brown 

 at the tips, the secondaries externally white, forming a broad lon- 

 gitudinal bar down the wing, the innermost brown, edged with 

 fulvous inclining to white at the tip ; tail purplish black tipped with 

 ■white, more broadly on the outer feathers, the two ceutre ones paler 

 brown, a shade of this colour being also apparent on the inner webs 

 of most of the others ; entire sides of face and throat light grey, 

 rather paler than on the crown and shading off into a black patch on 

 the fore neck, the lower feathers of which are edged with fulvous ; 

 rest of under surface orange-buff, inclining to white in the centre of 

 the abdomen and under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts like the 

 breast; bill black; iris bright yellow. Total length 8 inches, culmen 

 0-8, wing 4-2, tail 3-6, tarsus 1-2. {Mus. Lish.) 



Ohs. Professor Barboza du Bocage says that specimens not (juite 

 adult have the fore part of the neck and breast with transverse bars 

 of a pale brownish rufous, which disappears later on in life. 



Hah. Provinces of Benguela and Mossamedcs in Houth-wcsteru 

 Africa. 



