48. XERPf?IPIIONE. 357 



r At ?■ A 1 ^y.^^**" ^'^''- Sir Samuel Baker [P.]. 



s,t d2adsk. White Nile. Purchased. ^ 



"■ r^ , -^'^^"^ ''^^'^''^- ^- B. Sharpe, Esq. 



V w Ad. sk. River Gambia. R. B. Sharje; Esq. 



a d ad sk. Gasamance. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



f ^5- t- ^1^1 Calabar. Dr. .Uex. Smith [P.]. 



^- '^^- ®^- Cameroons,Feb.l6, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 , . , , lQ7l{A.Crossley). ^ ' ^ 



"■^^'*-®'^- Gaboon. M. Verreaux. (Type of 



i', a'. Ad. sk. Gaboon. r/r". SlfrrpifEsJ. 



^ ■ i""?- 'i • S^^°°'^ ( ^'■«^^«-)- I^- B. Sharf e Esq. 



^. c? ad. sk. Gaboon. M. DuChaillu [c\ 



/ , 5r . 1mm. sk. River Danger, Hemy .\nsell, Esq. rP.l. 



., Gaboon. 



A', I , k'. Ad. sk. Confluents of the MM. Marehe & De Com- 



^' \.d sk P^-T'^??'^^- ^P'^g°e[C.]. 



*• -^°-^^- Gabmda, Congo, Commander Sperlino-r P. 1. 



August. DL J 



m'. Ad. ; «'. 2 juv. sk. Laudana, Congo. Dr. Lucan & M. Petit [0.1 



" • ^^- ^^- Bembe, Angola. J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [C.]. 



7. Terpsiphone erythroptera. 



Tchitrea cristata, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 89 (nee Gm ') 

 Terpsiphone senegalensis, Shaiye, Cat. Afr. B. p. 44,' no. 418 {nee 

 Less.). •' r J \ 



Adult male. General colour above chestnut, the tail entirely of 

 this colour; wing chestnut, like the back, dusky brown towards the 

 tip ot the inner web, more indistinct on the secondaries, the inner- 

 most of which are entirely rufous, like the back ; crown of head and 

 chest, sides of head, and entire throat glossy steel-green ; fore neck 

 and breast hght ashy grey, the rest of the under surface, including 

 the under tail-coverts, white ; tibial plumes and sides of body washed 

 with pale rufous ; under wing-coverts chestnut, with broad margins 

 of hoary white. Total length 15-7 inches, culmen 0-8, win- 3-6,5 

 tail 4-3, middle tail-feathers 12-1, tarsus 0-65. ° 



_ Adult female. Differs from the male in not having the long tail 

 in being duller white below, and in having the throat dark grey,' 

 with a sHght steel-green gloss. Total length 7-5 inches, culmen 0-8 

 wmg 3-35, tail 4, tarsus 0-65. . 



Jffab. Senegambia. 



a,b. S 2 ad. sk. River Gambia. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



8. Terpsiphone perspicillata. 



Le Gobe-mouche Tchitree, Levaill Oh. d'Afr. iii. p. 203, pis 142 143 

 Tchitrea cristata (nee Gm.), Less. Traite, p. 386; id. Eev.Zool 1838' 

 p. 278 ; Grui), Gen. B. i. p. 2/50 ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 90, no 271 ' 

 Cass. Br. Bhdad. Acad. 1859, p. 49; Hartl. J. f.'O.lSQl p 167 

 Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 145 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 333, no. 5010 

 Bncage, Jorn. Lish. 1870, p. 343. 

 Muscipeta perspicillata. Swains. B. W. Afr. ii. p. 59; Licht. Nomencl 

 p. 19. . 1 . 



