304 ^PJ0^'0PID^. 



colour on the breast, and remains of fulvous tips to the wing- 

 coverts ; the amount of barring on the breast varies very much, 

 some of the individuals being thickly clouded with bars, others 

 having them very thinly distributed ; younger birds appear to have 

 the flanks more or less distinctly barred with grey. 



Hah. "West Africa, from the Gold Coast to Gaboon and Fernando 

 Po. 



a. Ad. sk. Fernando Po. Louis Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



Type of species. 

 h. Ad., c. Imm. .sk. Ashantee. J. Gould, Esq. 



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



e. Ad. sk. Fantee (Aubimi). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 /. Ad. sk. Wassaw, July 1872 (H. T. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Blissett). 



g. 1mm. sk. Accra (Capt. Haynes). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



h. Ad. sk. Gaboon {R. B. N. Walker). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



i. Imm. sk. Gaboon (P. B. Dti Chaillu). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



k. Ad. sk. Gaboon. M. Du Chaillu [C.l 



/. Imm. sk. Femand Vaz. ' M. A. Marche [O.J^ 



2. Praseria cinerascens. 



Fraseria cinerascens, HaHl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 102 (ex Tetmn. 31S. in 

 Miis. Liq/d.) ; Cass. Pr. Philad. Acud. 1859, p. 51 ; Eeich. J. f. 0. 

 1874, p. 27 ; Bouvter, Cat. Ois. Marche i^-c, p. 21. 



Tephrodornis cinerascens, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 394. 



Adult. Above deep slaty grey, the head blacker, especially the 

 forehead, lores, and feathers below the eye ; in front of the latter, 

 and situated above the lores, a conspicuous little spot of silky white 

 plumes ; wings and tail dusky brown, washed with slaty grey ; 

 cheeks and uuder surface of body pure white, thickly mottled with 

 slat}' grey margins to the feathers, becoming less distinct towards 

 the abdomen and under tail-coverts, which are pure white ; sides 

 of breast and flanks nearly uniform grey ; thighs grey, the plumes 

 edged with white ; under wing-coverts white, with grey bases to the 

 feathers ; bill black (in skin) ; legs horn-brown. Total length 6-2 

 inches, cuhnen 0*7, wing 3-25, tail 2-95, tarsus 0-75. 



Yovng. Brown instead of dark grey, mottled with ochraceous 

 spots on the back, very distinct on the wing-coverts, less so on the 

 crown, the upper tail-coverts mesially streaked with rufous, the 

 quills also edged with ochraceous or pale rufous ; underneath white, 

 the breast pale fawn-colour or ochraceous, with greyish edgings to 

 the feathers, producing a mottled appearance ; ear-coverts dusky, 

 streaked with pale rufous. 



Hah. "West Africa, from Guinea to Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. West Africa. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Og6w« river. MM. Marche et De Com- 



piegne [C.]. 



c. $ juv. sk. Gaboon. M. Du Chaillu [C.]. 



d. .Tuv. sk. Gaboon (Ihi Chait/u). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



