]8. PRIOXOPf 



819 



rufous brown, rather washed with blackish ; above and below the 

 hinder part of the ej^e a small white spot ; a large patch of white 

 on the sides of the neck, the feathers immediately behind it black ; 

 wings rufous brown like the back, all the feathers, both of the 

 coverts and quills, blackish ; upper tail-coverts slaty black washed 

 with rufous bi'own ; tail slaty black ; entire under surface of body 

 bright rufous brown ; vent, thighs, under wing- and tail-coverts 

 slaty grey ; bill and legs blackish. Total length 11 inches, culmen 

 1'15, wing 5-25, tail 5-] 5, tarsus 1"25. , 



Young. Similar to the adult, but rather more dingy ; wing-coverts 

 and secondaries tipped with pale rufous buff; sides of face and 

 throat greyish, barred with duU rufous, as also the upper breast ; the 

 rest of the under surface slaty grey washed with rufous brown ; 

 outer tail-feathers tipped with white ; bill light yellowish horn- 

 colour. 



Hob. Sumatra and Southern Borneo. 



Purchased. 



A. R. Wallace, Esq. [C.]. 



A. R. Wallace, Esq. [0.]. 



18. PEIONOPS. 



Priouops, VUill N. Bid. (THist. Nat. iii. p. 145 (1816). 



Type. 

 P. plumatus. 



Head of Prionops plumatus 

 Range. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head grey, surmounted by a crest of wliite over- 

 sliadowing the crown ; throat white. 

 a'. Crest enormous, composed of long plumes, 

 reaching, when depressed, as far as the 

 mantle p/umatiis, p. 



520. 



