470 TIMELIID-E. 



/'". Entire body white excepting the wings 



and tail, -which are brown hicolor, p. 475. 



V , With a distinct white rump. 



c" . Crown of head, sides of fiice, and upper 



tliroat white leucopyyius, p. 476. 



d". CrowTi of head brown; forehead brown, 



with grey edges to the feathers hartlauhi, p. 478. 



b. "With the bill yellow. 



c' . Abdomen pale, ashy or ochraceous. 



e". Tail-feathers brown or ashy brown, not 



rnfescent. 



y'". Belly ashy whitish or light buff; throat 



not more dusky than the breast, the 



feathers not mottled with blackish 



bases ; back distinctly streaked with , . -o 



whitish centres to the leathers < , t ■'^ ,-o 



h . Jjelly ochraceous bun ; the throat dingy ' '^ 



and mottled with blacldsh bases to the 

 feathers. 

 e^. Head creamy whitish, in strong con- 

 trast to the back, which is distinctly 

 streaked with broad centres to the 



feathers yn'seus, p. 480. 



/*. Head ashy brown, scarcely different 

 from the rest of the upper siu'face ; 

 streaks on back iudistinct and con- 

 fined to the shaft-lines alone striatiis, p. 481. 



f". Tail-feathers light rufotis-brown, with 

 pale tips to the outer ones ; upper tail- 

 coverts also pale sandy buff and contrasting 



with the back somervillii, p. 482. 



iV. Abdomen maroon-brown; throat pearly gTej'. 



y". Head, throat, and breast pearly grey .... atripennis, p. 483. 

 h". Head black; sides of face and throat 



only pearly grey haynesii, p. 483. 



1. Crateropus reinwardti. 



Crateropus reinwardtii, Sivains. Zool. Illudr. 2ud ser. ii. pi. 80 ( 1831) ; 



id. B. W. Afr. i. p. 276 {1837) ; Gray, Gtn. B. i. p. 224 (1846) ; 



Bp. Consp. i. p. 278 (1850) ; Hartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 23 ; id. Orn. 



W. Afr. p. 79 (1857) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 280, no. 4128 (1869); 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 52 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 24 (1871) ; Shelley ^ 



Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 287. 

 Tui'dus melanocephalus, Cuvier, Mns. Paris. ; PucJier. Arch, du Mits. 



vii. p. 342. 



Adult. General colour above ashy olive-brown, the least wing- 

 coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts darker brown 

 with only a slight wash of olive ; primary- coverts and quills dark 

 brown, the inner secondaries washed with the colour of the back ; 

 tail-feathers dark brown ; head, nape, cheeks, and ear-coverts black, 

 the sides of the neck also inclining to blackish brown ; lores slightly 

 ashj' ; feathers of crown not pointed, but having glossy black shaft- 

 lines ; throat pale yellowish white, shading off on the lower part 



