484 mcELnD^. 



by its black crown, only the eyebrow, cheeks, and ear-coverts being 

 hoary grey, contrasting with the black crown and lores ; the throat 

 is also hoary grey, which does not extend onto the fore neck. Total 

 length 7-5 inches, culmen 1, wing 4-5, tail 3-4, tarsns 1-45. 



Another specimen, apparently fully adult, differs from the type in 

 being much brighter and more chestnut-brown, this colour being 

 carried up the entire throat, and leaving only the base of the chin 

 and the sides of the throat hoary grey. This may probably be the 

 adult female, though such a difference in the colour of the sexes is 

 unusual in the genus. Some other birds, however, in the collection 

 have the throat grey washed with chestnut, as if they were young 

 males gaining the fully adult grey-throated plumage. 



Hah. Replaces the foregoing species on the Gold Coast. 



a. Ad. sk. Accra {Ca2}t. Haynes). E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(T^vpe of species.) 

 h. Ad. ; c. Jun. sk. Accra. R. B.'Sharpe, Esq. 



d. Ad. sk. Fantee {Aubinn). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



e. Ad. sk. Deiikera, February 1872 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(H. F. Blissett). 



f. Ad. sk. Ashantee. J. Govdd, Esq. 



g. Ad. St. Gold Coast. L. Eraser, Esq. [0.]. 



32. ^THOCICHLA. 



Type, 

 .^thocichla, Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 215 



(1875) A. gymnogenys. 



Itaneje. South-western Africa. 



1. .ffithocichla gymnogenys. (Plate XII.) 



Crateropus gymuogeuy.s, Ilurtl. P. Z. S. 18G5, p. 86 ; Gray, Hatid-l. 



B. i. p. 280, no. 4138 (18(39) ; Bocaye, Orn. Angola, p. 253. 

 ^thocichla gymnogenys, Sharjje, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 215. 



Adult (type of species). Crown of head and nape white ; hinder 

 neck and the sides of the same tawny rufous ; upper surface of 

 body dark brown, with indistinct rufous-buft' edgings to the feathers, 

 inclining to whitish on the outer wing-coverts ; wings blackish 

 brown ; lower back greyish brown ; rump white ; upper tail-coverts 

 brown with greyish tips ; tail blackish-brown ; sides of face, region 

 round the eye, and ear-coverts bare ; cheeks and chin white ; rest 

 of under surface creamy white ; the sides of the body, under wing- 

 coverts, and inner webs of quills tawny rufous ; the throat and 

 fore neck with transverse bars of dusky brown. Total length 

 9-3 inches, culmen 0-!», wing 4-2, tail 4-3, tarsus 1-25. 



Hah. South-western Africa : Benguela and Mossamedes. 



a. Ad. sk. Benguela. J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [C.]. 



(TyijB of species.) 



b. $ ad. sk. Maconjo, Oct. 1870 {An- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



ehieta). 



