134 TIMELIIDJ;. 



11. (S ad. sk. Macamac, Transvaal, Sept. J. II. Guroev, Esq. 



•2-2, 1874 {T. Ay res). 



o. Ad. .<!{. Lvdenburg-. F. A. Barratt, Esq. 



;), q. Ad. sk. Tete, Zambesi. Dr. Kirk [0.1. 



>: Ad. sk. Sliupauga, Zambesi. Dr. Kirk I C.J. 



s. Ad. sk. Damara Laud (C.J.An- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



derssou). 



t. S ad. sk. Ovaquen^'ama, Damara R. B. Sharpe, E.sq. 



Land, June 2, 1867 



(('. J. Andersson). 



u. Ad. sk. Zanzibar. Dr. Kirk [C.]. 



r, w. Ad. sk. Mouibas (Wakefield). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



.V. cJ ad. sk. Mombas. Dr. Hildebrandt [C.]. 



10. Pycnonotus nigricans. 



Le Brunoir, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii. p. 38, pi. 106. fig. 4 ; Suiidev. Crit. 

 oin Levaill. p. 36. 



Tardus uigricans, Vieill. Kouv. Bid. d'Hid. Nat. xx. p. 253 ; Bonn- 

 et VieilLEnc. Metlt.^. 653. 



Turdus eapeusis, Licld. Verz. Dotibl. p. 653 (ncc L.). 



Ixos levaillantii, Temm. Tahl. Meth. p. 207. 



Pycnonotus nigricans, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 237 ; Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. 

 'p. 107; Gurneij, Ibis, 1860, p. 209; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 138; 

 iSltarpe, Cut. Afr. B. p. 23 ; Giirney, in Anderss. B. Bam. Ld. 

 p. 119; Ayres, Ibis, 1873, p. 282; liucldey, Ibis, 1874, p. 369. 



Pycnonotus capensis (pt.), Sharpe, ed, Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 207. 



Ixiis nigricans, Bp. CoH>:p. i. p. 2<^7. 



Head of Pycnonotus niyricans, to show the wattled eyelid. 



Adult male. General colour above ashy browu, the wing-coverts 

 like the back ; greater coverts and quills dark brown, with margins 

 of lighter ashy brown ; upper tail- coverts rather darker brown than 

 the back, with paler browu margius ; tail-feathers dark brown, 

 faintly tipped with ashy brown, rather more broadly on the outer 

 feathers ; crown and nape black, forming a cap ; ear-coverts, sides 

 of face, and throat black, fading off into the dark brown of the fore 

 neck and chest, the feathers of the latter being mottled, the bases 

 brown, and the margins ashy whitish, like the rest of the under 

 surface ; sides of bodj-, flanks, and thighs brown ; under tail- 

 coverts bright yellow ; under wing-coverts and axillaries light 

 brown, the edge of the wing slightly washed with yellow; quills 

 dark brown below, ashy brown along the edge of the inner web ; 

 " beak and legs black ; iris dark claret " (A E. Buckley) ; " iris 

 pale yellowish red" (C J. Andersson). Total length 6"9 inches, 

 culmen 0-7, wing 3-55, tail 3-1, tarsus 0-8. 



