302 PRIONOPID^. 



reous — each feather having a pale edge, presents a slightly scaled 

 appearance ; wing-feathers brown, inner webs darkest, outer feathers 

 slightly tinged with greenish yellow on the outer edge ; tail-feathers 

 in stroi]g light closely barred ; covering the nostrils is a patch of 

 black extending into a broadish eyebrow ; this coalesces with the 

 black of the throat behind the ear, which is covered by a large 

 white patch ; above the black eyebrow a faint whitish streak ; chin 

 and upper portion of throat black, this separated from the cinereous 

 of the underparts by a broken irregular white band ; vent and 

 under tail-coverts whitish tinged with Isabella colour ; underside of 

 wing- and tail-feathers paler than the upper, the latter much paler 

 at the tips ; upper edge of the wing inside deep black ; axillaries 

 whitish ; bill and legs blue, changing into black after death ; iris 

 brown. Length 8", wing 4" 1'", tail 3" 9'", tarse 1" 1'", bill 1" 2'". 

 (^Layard.) 



Hub. Islands of Ovalau, Taviuni, and Viti Levu, Fiji group. 



11. CUPHOPTERUS. 



Type. 



Cuphopterus, HaHl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 326 C. dohrni. 



Claw ar.d liead of Cujjhopterus dohrni. 

 Ranye. "W. Africa, Prince's Island and Gaboon. 



Cuphopterus dohrni. 



Cuphopterus dohrni, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 320, pi. xxxiv. ; Sharpe, 



Cat. Afr. B. p. 42. 

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



Adult female. General colour above deep chocolate-brown, the lower 

 back and rump washed with olive ; ear-coverts and lores rather 

 darker brown than the head ; wings brown like the back, the pri- 

 maries margined with ashy white ; tail deep brown, slightly washed 

 with ashy on the margins of the feathers ; cheeks, throat, and 

 underparts white, slightly washed with yellow on the breast ; across 

 the fore neck a band of ashy brown ; flanks olive-brown, forming a 

 broad lateral stripe ; sides of body silky white ; thighs olive-brown ; 

 under tail-coverts white, with brown bases ; wing-coverts white, the 

 latter with a small spot of brown near the outer edge of the greater 

 series ; quills Itrown below, white along the inner web ; bill 

 brownish, the lower mandible paler ; feet brownish ; iris dull chest- 



