31. OREICOLA. 263 



lowish buff; quills ashy brown below, the inner webs white from 

 their base upwards; "bill and legs flesh-colour; iris ashy hazel" 

 ; ; ^\f"""''^- ^Total length G-6 inches, culmen 0-53, wing 3-2, 

 tau c5-15, tarsus 0-95. 

 ffab. South Africa. 



«. 6 ad. sk. Eland's Post, S.E. Africa, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 June 10, 1870 (T. C. At- f > 'i 



more). 



^ tn ■ t f>''"^- . , I^- B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c. Ad. sk. ^^'^^l-iraac, July 3, 1874 (T. J. H. Gurney, Esq. [P.]. 



2. Lioptilus olivascens. 



Pansoma olivascens C«5.. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 52; HarU. 



J.f O. 18bl p. 161 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 286, no. 3415. 

 ^githalopsis ohvascens, Heine, J.f. O. 1859, p. isi. 



^f?M?<. Entire upper parts ashy oUve ; wings and taU olive-brown ; 

 qu Us externany edged with paler yeUowish ashy, and internali; 

 with white ; throat and under taU-coverts white ; breast and abdo- 

 men greenish ashy, paler on the latter; under wing-coverts white • 

 upper mandible bluish corneous, under mandible yeUowish white- 



(dLEf, rro""' ^'"^^^ ^^' ''''^''' ^"^^ ^^' ^^^ ^i 



Hah. Gaboon. 



fn Phi n v'- T\ -^^^^rP*'""' "^ ^^^ *3-pe stUI remains unique 

 in Philadelphia. He describes it as of the same general form as 

 Pansoma mdaimrnm ( = R plumheum, Hartl.), but with the bUl 

 stronger and the colours of the plumage entirely different. This 

 thicker biU and the pale-coloured legs most likely belong to a Lio- 

 ptdus, as the South-Afncan species (L. nigricapillus) differs from a 

 P™m« chiefly m these two characteristics; indeed it is doubtful 

 whether Liopulus should be considered more than a thick-biUed 

 Pansoma. 



31. OREICOLA. 



Oreicola, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 6 ri8o4^ n ,.,^'I^^'i 



Rhodophila, Jerd. B. Ind. ii.^p.'As (18^3) ' .' .' \ \ \ [ [ [ 0. j" tnf "''' 



Bill of Oreicola ferrea. 



Rmige. ■From India, ranging through the Burmese countries to 

 Southern China, and extending to the island of Timor. 



