60 CAMPOPHAGIDJE. 



vii. p. 248 ; Hemil. Orti. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 418; Bocage, Jorii. Lish. 



1870, p. 34.J. 

 Ixua plioenicoptenis, Temm. Tab!. Meth. p. 13. 

 Ceblepyris plioenicea, RUppell, Mus. Senckenh. iii. p. 21 ; Bp. Cmisp. 



i. p. 353 ; Jlemjl. Si/st. Ucbcrs. p. 32, no. 307 ; Antin. Cat. descr. 



fVc. p. 52. 

 Oblepyvis ifrnatii, Ifeu;/!. Si/sf. Uehers. p. 32, no. 300. 

 Lanicterus pliceniceus, Ilartl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 172 ; S/iarpe, Ibis, 



1870, p. 55; id. Cat. Aft: i?."p. 52, no. 499; Antin. %■ Salvad. 



Vi(t<j(j. Bo(/os, p. 70. 



Adult male. General colour above and below glossy steel-blue 

 black ; least and median wing-coverts brilliant scarlet with yellow 

 bases to the feathers, the greater series black, edged with st«el-blue 

 and j'ellow at the liase ; (juills black, the secondaries with narrow 

 steel-blue edgings ; tail-feathers black, narrowly margined with 

 steel-blue ; quills below ashy brown, washed with olive along the 

 inner web ; " bill and feet black ; iris dusky brown " {Ueiiglin). 

 Total length 7-S inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-9, tail 3-75, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult female. Above pale olivaceous dusky brown, the rump 

 more ashy, the feathers for the most part banded with blackish and 

 tipped with white ; quills brightly and conspicuously margined with 

 yellow ; wing-coverts broadly margined with faint yellow before a 

 terminal bar of black ; tail-fcathei's olivaceous dusky brown, the 

 outer ones more blackish, the two outermost at the tip and on the 

 margin bright yellow ; below whitish, pai'tly washed Avith yellow 

 and broadly bauded with dusky ; under wing-coverts and thighs 

 bright yellow ; " bill dusky blackish : feet greenish dusky ; iris 

 sometimes grey, sometimes umber" {Heuglin, Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. 

 p. 417). 



Yomig. Similar to the female : purer dusky greyish ; head and 

 nape mottled with dusky. {Ueuglin, loc. cit.) 



Ohs. In the Museum are specimens of female birds agreeing with 

 Von Heuglin's descriptions above quoted ; but as they were not 

 identified by the collectors as being C. pJuenicca, and they may be 

 C. ccantliornoides, I have thought it best to quote the descriptions of 

 Heuglin, which are aiithentic, as he has apparently only met with 

 one species. See also my remarks on 0. .vantJiornoides. 



Hah. Western and North-eastern Africa. 



a. c? ad. St. River Gambia. Governor Rendall [C.]. 



b. (S ad. sk. River Gambia. R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 



c. S ad. sk. Gold Coast. Colonel Strachan [P.]. 



d. (5 ad. sk. Fantee (Governor Ussher). R. B. Sliarpe, Esq. 

 e,/. [5 ] ad. sk. Fantee. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 q. ? ad. sic. River Prah, May 1872 R. B. Sharpe, Esq, 



(7/. F. Blissett). 

 h. Ad. sk. Tigr^ {Eskr). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



2. Campophaga xanthornoides. 



Lanicterus xanthornoides, Less. Ann. Sci. Nat. (2 ) i.f. p. 109 ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. .%0; Hartl. J. f. O. 1805, p. 173. 

 Campephaga xanthornoides. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 283. 



