262 



h. 2 ad. sk. 

 i. Ad. sk. 



k. cJ ad. sk. 

 I. Ad. sk. 



MUSC'TCAriD,E. 



Lydenburg. 

 Lydenburg. 

 Macamac. 

 Macamac. 



F. A. Barratt, Esq. [CI. 

 F. A. Barratt, Esq. 'C.J. 

 F. A. Barratt, Esq. \'C.\. 

 J. H. Gurney, Esq. [P.]. 



30. LIOPTILUS. 



Lioptilus, Cahanis, Mus. Hem. i. p. 88 (1850) 



Type. 

 L. nigricapillus 



Bill and wing of Lioptilus nigricapillus. 

 Range. Confined to South Africa. 



Key to the Sjjecies. 



a Head black ; back oliTe-brown ; sides of neck, sides 



of face, throat, and breast gi-ey • . nigricapilhis, p. 262. 



h. Head ashy olive like the back ; throat white ; 



breast aiid abdomen greenish ashy oUvascens, p. 263. 



1. Lioptilus nigricapillus. 



Le Merle a calotte noire, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii. p. 48, pi. 108 ; Sundev. 



Crit. om Levaill. p. 36. 

 Turdus nigricapillus, Vieill. N. Diet. (TMst. Nat. xx. p. 256 ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 219. 

 LioptiliLs nigricapillus, Cab. Mm. Hein. i. p. 88 ; £p. Consp. i. p. 332 ; 



Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 314, no. 4691 ; Sharps, Cat. Aft: B. p. 43 ; 



Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 203 ; Ayres, t. c, p. 428 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's 



B. S. Afr. p. 343, no. .331. 

 Pycnonotiis nigricapillus, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 140. 



Adult male. Upper surface warm brown, the wing-coverts and 

 quills ashy brown, washed with the same brown as the back ex- 

 ternally, the primaries narrowly margined with whitish ; tail dark 

 brown, margined on both webs of the feathers with olivaceous ; 

 crown of head and nape black, the latter slightly shaded with grey ; 

 lores and feathers round the eye black ; cheeks and ear-coverts 

 silverj' grey, the sides of the neck, throat, and breast rather darker 

 grey ; the chin blackish ; centre of the breast and abdomen white ; 

 sides of body and thighs fulvous-brown ; under tail-coverts light 

 brown, edged broadly with butfj- white ; under wing-coverts yel- 



