'^20 l'i!I()N,iJMD.-K. 



b'. Crest smaller aud composed of hair-like plumes 



not reaching beyond the nape poliocejjJuilus, p. 31. 



b. Head grey, the frontal plumes rig^d but not elon- 

 gated back to any extent ; chin white, with 

 grey edgings to the feathers fnlacoma, p. 321. 



1. Prionops plumatus. 



Le Geoftrov, Lemill. Ois. d'Afr. pis. 80, 81 ; Suud. Cril. om Levaill. 



p. 83. 

 Lanius plumatus, Shmc, Gen. Zuol. vii. pt. 2. p. 292 (ex Levaill.). 

 Prionops geoffi-oyi, Vieill. N. Diet. iii. p. 145 {ex Levaill.) ; id. Gal. 



Ois. pi. 142. 

 Prionops plumatus, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 246, pi. xxvi. ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 292 ; Cab. Mus. Heiti. i. p. 68 ; Bp. Cunsp. i. p. 359 ; 



HartL Orn. W.-Afr. p. 107; Bocage, Jam. Lisb. i. p. 138; G7-ai/, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 395 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 49 ; Botivier, Cat. Ois. 



Marche iyc. p. 21. 



Xestling. Head all round, a verj- slight crest, and under j^arts 

 snowj' -white ; back light brown, the feathers margined with greyish 

 white ; wing-coverts also pale brown, the inner, median, and greater 

 coverts white with brown bases, quills black, with a slight greenish 

 gloss; all the primaries with a broad bar of white on the inner web, 

 the inner secondaries narrowly edged with white towards the tip ; 

 tail greenish black, tipped with white, more broadly towards the 

 outermost, which is entirely pure white. 



Adult. Head white, with an enormous crest, the loral and frontal 

 plumes erect aud recurved over the nostrils, and behind this smaller 

 crest a large one of long white plumes, extending, when at rest, as 

 far as the mantle ; above and below the eye a large wattle, yellow 

 in skin but jDrobably red in life ; ear- coverts, sides of neck, and 

 nape inclining to slaty grey ; hind neck white, foi ming a collar ; 

 entire back glossy black, some of the outer upper tail-coverts tipped 

 with white on their outer web ; wings black, the median and inner 

 greater coverts pure white, as also the outer webs of the middle 

 secondaries, forming a bar down the wing, the rest of the secon- 

 daries tipped with white, the primaries broadly barred with white 

 on their inner web ; tail greenish black, the feathers tipped with 

 white, the tips being gradually broader towards the outer feathers, 

 the outermost being entirely pure white, excepting a small patch of 

 brown at the base of the inner web ; entire under surface of body 

 pure white, the ilanks somewhat greyish streaked with white ; 

 under wing-coverts black. Total length 9 inches, culmen 0'85, 

 wing 4*65, tail 4-05, tarsus 0-95. 



Hah. West Africa. 



a. Ad. st. Sierra Leone. 



b. Juv. St. River Gambia. Governor Rendall [C.]. 



c. Ad., d. Juv. sk. River Gambia. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 <: (S ad. sk. Senegal. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 f. Pull. St. Senegal. Purchased. 



y. Ad. sk. W. Africa. Purchased. 



