280 PIUONOPID^. 



Lai/nrd, B. S. Afr. p. 162; Grat/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 395; Sharpe, 

 P. Z. S. 1870, p. "143 ; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 51 ; Gurney in Anderss. 

 B. Dam. Ld. p. 140 ; Bocage, Join. Lisb. 1874, pp. 7, 24 ; Buckle)/, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 377. 

 Clifetoblemma leucoceptala, Sioains. An. in Menag. p. 282. 



Adult male. Head creamy white above, extending onto the nape ; 

 lores and feathers below the eye black ; ear-coverts, hinder part of 

 cheeks, and sides of neck blackish brown, shading off into deep 

 chocolate-brown on the latter ; fore part of cheeks white, like the 

 throat ; entire back clear light ashy brown, many of the feathers 

 shading off into whitish on their edges ; wings dark brown, the 

 coverts and quills very narrowly edged with lighter brown, the quills 

 darker brown than the coverts ; tail dark brown, the feathers with 

 very narrow edgings of lighter brown ; thro;;t and entire breast 

 white ; abdomen and under tail-coverts light ashy brown, the thighs 

 and under wing-coverts rather darker ashy brown ; " bill black 

 horn-colour ; legs and toes a livid brown ; iris brown " (^Andersson). 

 Total length 9 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 5-3.5, tail 4-4, tarsus 1-05. • 



Adidt female. Similar to the male. Total length 8-5 inches, 

 wing 5-3.5, tail 4-4, tarsus 1. 



Young. Much paler on the back than the adult ; lores and ante- 

 rior part of cheeks verv pale brown ; sides of neck white ; ear- 

 coverts whitish and mottled with brown ; under surface of body 

 whitish, with a wash of pale brown ou the abdomen and thighs. 



Hab. South Africa. 



fl. Ad. St. Snnth ' Africa ( Smith). South- African Museum. 



b. 2 ad. St. .South Africa. ' Sir A. .Smith [C.]. 



c. Juv. sk. South Africa (Smith). Zoological Society. 



(Type of species.) 

 </, e. cJ ad. sk. Transvaal (r. ^yre;). R. B' Sharpe, Esq. 



f. 5 ad. sk. Otjimbinque, Damara Land, E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



-May .30, 1866 (C. J. An- 

 dcrsson). 



g, h. S 2 ?d. sk. Otjimbinqire, July .30, 1860 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



[Anderssmi). 

 i. 2 ad. sk. Katenbella, Benguela, No- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



vember 1 (Sala). 



2. Eurocephalus rueppelli. 



Eurocephalus anguitimens, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 53, Taf 27 (tiec 

 Smith) ; fforsf. Sr Moore, Cat. B.' Mus. E.I. Co. i. p. 169; Anti- 

 nori, Cat. Uescr. Uec. p. 57 ; Salvad. Atti R. Accad. Torino, 1870. 

 p. 738. 



Eurocephalus rueppelli, Bp. Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1853, p. 440; 

 Heugl Sgst. Uebers. p. 34; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. pp. 487, cxxii ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 395. 



Adult. Head and nape pure white ; back brown, rather darker 

 on the lower part ; rump and upper tail-coverts pure white ; wings 

 and tail brown, the quills rather darker than the coverts ; tail dark 

 brown, white at base, like the upper tail-coverts ; lores, ear-coverts, 



