44. TKocuocEUCUs. 299 



chin white ; eur-covorts light ashy ; rest of under surface of body 

 bright yellow, slightly washed with fulvous on the under tail- 

 coverts ; under wing-coverts bright yellow, the greater series white. 

 Total length 87 inches, culmen 0-3, wing 1-75, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-6. 

 Hab. South-eastern Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Zambesi, Dr. Livingstone [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 



44. TEOCHOCERCUS. 



Type. 

 Trochocercus, Cab. Mm. Hein. i. p. 58 (1850) T. cvauomelas. 



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Head of Trochocerciis ci/anomelas, to show crest. 

 Range. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Tail blackish, the feathers edged with gi-ey. 



a'. Inner greater coverts and inner secondaries pure 



white, forming a distinct patch; back grey; 



breast white ; sides of body grey ci/anonwlus, p. 299. 



b'. No white at all on the wing; back glossy bhush 



black ; abdomen light cinereous ." nitens, p. ?>00. 



b. Tail chestnut, as also the wings ; throat and breast 



gTey, shading oif into white on the abdomen and 



under tail-coverts borbonicus, p. 302. 



1. Trochocercus cyanomelas. 



Le Gobe-mouche mantele, Levaill. Ois. iVAfr. iv. p. 5, pi. 1.51. figs. 



1,2; Smidev. Oi-it. om Levaill. p. 41. 

 Muscicapa cyanomolas, Vieill. N. Diet, d'ffist. Nat. xxi. p 47.3- 



Grill. Zool. Anteckn. p. 26, no. 20. 

 Muscicapa scapularis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 112. 

 Tchitrea cyauomelas, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 200 ; Layarcl, B. S. Afr 



p. 14G ; Gray, Hancl-l. B. i. p. .3-34, no. 5029. 

 Philontoma cyauomelas, £p. Conap. i. p. 324. 

 Trochocercus cyauomelas. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 58 ; Sharpc ed 



Layards B. S. Afr. p. 354, no. 341. 

 Tchitrea cyauomelfena, Gnrney, Ibis, 18G2, p. .30. 

 Terpsiphone cvanomelas, Finseh ^- Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 312 note • 



Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 44, no. 413. . r , , 



Adult male. General colour above light grey, with a bluish gloss • 



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