34. AETHOMTIAS. * 271 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total IcDgth 5 inches, wing 

 2-5, tail 2'35, tarsus 0-8. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but duller brown ; the throat whiter, 

 with less distinct blackish streaks. 



Bab. South Africa. 



«. $ ad. sk. Colesberg (A. F. Ortlepp). R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 



b. (S ad. sk. Daviep, River Swakop, Dec. 27, R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



1860 ( C. J. Anderssoii). 



c. 2 ad. sk. Swakop River, Oct. 2G, 18G0 ( C. J. R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



Andersson). 

 d (5" ad. sk. Near Elephant River, Little Xama- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 qua Land, Aug. 8, 1862 (C. J. 

 Andersson). 



34. AETHOMYIAS. 



Entomophila (pt.), G. R. Gray. 

 Sericornis (pt.), Salvadori. 



Range. Confined to New Guinea. 



1. Aethomyias spilodera. 



Entomophila? spilodera. Gray, P. Z. S. 18-59, p. 155; Finsch, Neu- 



Guinea, p. 164 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 154, no. 2000. 

 Sericornis spilodera, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. Genov. xii. p. 343. 



Adult male. General colour above dark olive-brown, the head 

 blacker, the ear-coverts rather more greyish black ; the nape also 

 washed slightly with blackish brown ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 the greater coverts and quills margined with olive, the latter more 

 plainly towards the ends of the feathers, the margins to the pri- 

 maries lighter ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers dark rufous- 

 brown, more dusky on the inner webs ; throat dull white, mottled 

 with ovate spots of black in the centre of the feathers, the cheeks 

 also marked in this manner ; i-emainder of under surface whitish, 

 with a wash of yellow on the breast and belly, especially distinct on 

 the under tail-covcrts ; the sides of the upper breast ashy, washed 

 with olive ; thighs dusky ; under wing-coverts dusky brown ; quills 

 brown below, lighter along the inner webs ; bill yellowish. Total 

 length 3-7 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-35, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-75. 

 (Mus. Lucjd.) 



Another specimen, marked female, has the throat more dusky, the 

 black spots being more extended, the white edgings less developed. 

 Total length 3-9 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-35, tail 1"75, tarsus 0-7. 

 (Mus. Lugd.) 



A young male, as I determine it to be, has the head uniform dark 

 olive like the back ; below, the throat shows no black spots at all, 

 but is dull whitish, slightly washed with olive-yellow ; the rest of 

 the under surface also is duller than in the adult and has a stronger 

 tinge of olive. {Mus. Lugd.) 



