22. LANIOTURDUS. 237 



22. LANIOTURDUS. 



Lanioturdus Water/iouse, App. Alexander's E.vp. Int. Type 



IJypMpus, bimdev. Av. Mdh. Tent. p. 24 (187l') L. tuiquatus 



Bill of Laniotiirdus forqitatus. 

 Raiige. Confined to South-western Africa. 



1. Lanioturdus torquatus. 

 Lanioturdus torquatus, Waterhouse, App. Alex. Exp. Int. Afr. p 264 • 



A^^T' f^?- 4''*- "• P- ^^' ^''""'P'' ^''^- 4/>-- B. p. 43; id. Ibis, 



1873, p. 170; Bocaye. Oni. Angola, p. 197. 

 Platysteu-a albicauda, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p 144 

 Moqumus tandouus, Bp. C. R. xlii. p. 820. 



Moquinus albicaudus, Bp. Rev. el Mm,, de Zool. 1857, p. 52 pi 5 

 ilatystn-a torquata, Gray, Iland-l. B'.i. p. 330, no. 4949; Gurtmnn 



Amlerss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 132. 'J 



Hypsipus torquatus, Sundev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 24. 



Adult male. Head black, including tho lores and ear-coverts, the 

 latter produced backwards along the sides of the neck ; forehead 

 and suporcUiary stn^ak (not extending beyond the eye), cheeks 

 throat sides of neck, and a large nuchal patch white ; back dark 

 grey, the rum^) mottled with white ; upper tail-coverts black ; tail 

 pure white, the two central feathers longitudinally marked with 

 black ; upper wing-coverts black, the primary-coverts white at tip, 

 as also the inner greater coverts, which form a conspicuous patch 

 on the wing ; quiUs black tipped with white, the secondaries more 

 broadly, the primaries white at base of inner web, and the outer 

 ones also white at base externally ; across the breast a conspicuous 

 band ot black ; centre of the body white, the sides of the breast and 

 Haiiks grey; tibial plumes white varied witli black; a tuft of 

 axillary plumes under the wing white ; under wing-coverts black 

 tie lower ones tipped with white; edge of wing white; "bill 

 almost black ; feet very dark brown, with a whitish or lead-coloured 

 tmt about the joints; iris greenish yellow" (Anden^so,,). Total 

 length ,r.) inches, culmcn 0-7, wing 3-3, tail 1-6, tarsus 1-2. 

 Ilab. iSouth-western Africa. 



«, b 6 ad. sk. Ba'u.iM T.and (C. J. Ander.^snn). R. ]J. Sharpo, Esq. 



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