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coverts resembling the back ; primary coverts and quills dark brown, 

 edged with the lighter chocohite-brown of the back; upper tail- 

 coverts with obsolete lighter tips ; tail dark brown, washed with 

 chocolate-brown near the base, the feathers obscurely washed with 

 dusky under certain lights ; sides of face chocolate-brown like the 

 head ; throat and breast light ashy chocolate, paler on the throat ; 

 remainder of xmder surface dull white, the lower flanks and under 

 tail-coverts washed with isabeUine ; thighs ashy brown ; under wing- 

 coverts pale ashy chocolate ; quills light brown below, with ashy 

 margins to the inner webs ; " bill and feet bluish black " {HeugUnj; 

 " bill bluish grey " (Blanford) ; " iris dusky" (ffeuc/lin), " of a pecu- 

 liar greyish yellow" (Blanford). Total length 6-6 inches, culiuen 

 0-55, wing 3-35, tail 3-1, tarsus 0-85. 

 Ilab. Xorth- eastern Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. 



Adigi-at, 8500 ft., March 23, 



18G8. 



W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



6. Bradyornis silens. 



La Pie-Grieche Silencieuse, Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afr. ii. pi. 74 ; Sundeo. 



Crit. om Levaill. p. 32. 

 Lanius silens, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 330 {e.t Levaill.) ; Vieill. N. 



Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxvi. p. 1.53. 

 Saxicola incomtn, Licht. Verz. Sihig. u. Vng. Kafernl. p. 13. 

 DromoL-ea ineomta, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 13. 

 Laniarius silens, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 299; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 162. 

 Tephrodornis silens, Bp. Consp. i. p. 357 ; «(/.' C. B. xxxix. p. 356. 

 Bradyornis vittatus, Sundev. Oefc. K. Vet. Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1850, 



p. 106. 

 Bradyornis \eucomela,s,' Sundev. t. c. p. 106. 

 Sigelus silens, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 68 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 28 ; 



Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 372. 

 Melanosoma trenioptera, Stmdev. MS. in Mm. Holm., wide 

 Melanornis trenioptera, Bp. Con.fn. i. p. 350 ; Gra>/, Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 288. r ' i- I r 



Melanosoma simplex, Siindev. MS. in Mus. Holm., muU 

 Melanornis simplex. Bp. Consp. i. p. 350 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 288. 

 Bradyornis silens, Hartl. J.f O. 1859, p. 324." 

 Melajnornis silens, Gra%j, Hand-l. B. i. p. 288. 



Head and tail-feathers of Bradyornis silens. 



