116 TIMELIID^. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Back brown. 



a'. Larger: wing 3'45 inches; brown, above slightly 

 olive ; cheeks, flanks, and under tail-coverts 



also brown ._ capensis, p. 116. 



b'. Smaller: wing 3-05 inches ; riifous-brown, inclu- 

 ding the tail ; sides of face also rufous-brown ; 

 flanks and under tail-coverts fulvescent 



brown strepitans, p. 117. 



h. Back pale olive-brown, contrasting with the upper 

 tail-coverts and the tail, which are rufous. 

 c'. Larger: wing 3*35 inches; head dark ashy 



brown fuhnventris, p. 117. 



d'. Smaller : wing 3-1 inches ; head more green- 

 ish * Jisc/teri, p. 118. 



1. Phyllostrophus capensis. 



Le Jaboteur, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii. pi. 112. fig. 1 ; Sund. Crit. om 



Levaill. p. 30. 

 Phvllostrephus capensis, Sirains. Classif. B. ii. p. 229 ; Less. Rev. 



Zool. 18-10, p. 13o; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 238; Bp. Consp. i. p. 260; 



Cab. 3Ius. Hein. Th. i. p. 113 ; Grill, Zool. Anfeckn. p. 34 ; Layard, 



B. S. Afr. p. 141 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 272, no. 3978; Sharpe, 



Cat. Afr. B. p. 23 ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 120 ; 



Shelley', Ibis, 1875, p. 74; Sharpe, ed. Layard' s B. S. Afr. p. 203; 



Bocaye, Orn. Aiiyola, p. 247. 

 Phyllostrophus capensis, Sund. Crit. om Levaill. p. 36; id. Meth. 



Av. Tent. p. 20. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, a little darker on the 

 head, and slightly paler on the rump ; a slight shade of olive per- 

 vading the upper surface ; wing-coverts like the back ; the greater 

 series and the quills dusky brown, externally more umber-brown 

 with a slightly olivaceous edging to the feathers ; upper tail-coverts 

 browner than the back, and more resembling the tail-feathers, which 

 are brown, slightly rufesccnt, and having somewhat paler margins ; 

 lores fulvous brown, slightly mottled with whitish bases to the fea- 

 thers ; ear-coverts dark brown with lighter brown shaft-streaks ; 

 above and below the eye a slight streak of white on the eyelid ; 

 cheeks white, the hinder part brown ; throat white ; fore neck, 

 breast, and sides of body light brown, the latter slightly washed 

 with olive ; centre of the breast and abdomen white, faintly washed 

 with pale yellow, some of the feathers being edged with this colour ; 

 under tail-coverts fulvous brown ; thighs brown like the flanks ; 

 under wing-coverts yellowish buff, with dusky bases to the feathers ; 

 quills dull brown below, rufescent along the inner webs ; " bill 

 horn-colour ; legs grey ; iris reddish brown " (Ayres). Total length 

 7'6 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 3-45, tail 3-2, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male ; " bill horn- 

 colour ; legs grey; iris hTown" (Ayres). Total length 7'6 inches, 

 culmen 0-85, wing 3-25, tail 3-3, tarsus 0'95. 



* For this diagnosis I am indebted to Dr. Eeiohenow, of the Berlin Museum. 



