388 MCSCICAPID^. 



a. [ $ ] atl. sk. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. 



(Type of species.) 



b. cJ ad. sk. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. 



(Type of M.bicolur.) 



c. [ 5 ] ad. sk. Fantee {Governor Ussher). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



56. SMITHORNIS. ^ 



Type. 



■Smithoruis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 322 (1850) S. capensis. 



Phrynorliampliu?, Kauj>, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 52 S. capensis. 



Bill of Sinithonus capensis. 

 RaiKje. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Larger : sides of upper breast white, ^wath broad 



black streaks; wing-coverts black, witli white 



tips capensis, p. 388. 



b. Smaller : sides of upper breast orange-chestnut ; 



upper wing-coverts olive-brown, with sandy 



margins ... rujilateralis, p. 389, 



1. Smithomis capensis. 



PlatyrhjTichus capensis. Smith, III. Zool. S. Afr. pi. 27; Layard, B. 



S. Afr. p. 142. _ 

 Smithornis capensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 322 ; Gray, Handr-l. B. i. p. 324, 



no. 4866. 

 Phrynorhamphus capensis, Kaiip, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 52 ; Giirney, Ibis, 



1862, p. 30. 



Adult female. Crown of head and nape black, the forehead 

 slightly streaked with white ; upper surface of body generally olive- 

 brown, streaked with black, the longitudinal centres to the feathers 

 being black ; in the centre of the back a patch of white caused by 

 the bases of the feathers being of this colour; wing-coverts olive- 

 brown, with blackish centres, the feathers broadly edged with sandy 

 buff; quills brown with sandy edges ; tail brown, with paler tips 

 and pale-brown edges ; lores pure white, the shafts blackish ; ear- 

 coverts dark brown, with silvery- white shafts ; throat white, with a 

 broad moustachial streak of dusky black on each side ; rest of under 

 surface buffy white, broadly streaked with blackish ; the abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts pure white ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries buffy white, the outermost of the greater coverts blackish ; 

 under surface of the quills greyish brown, the primaries white along 



