122 LAXIID^E. 



Poinatorliyuclius ervtliropterus, Gurney in Anderss. B.DamaraLaitd, 



p. 149. 

 Laniarius er3'tliropteru,-i, Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 397. 



Adult. General colour above, iucluding the scapulars, brown 

 with a slight olive tinge, passing into ashy grey on the rump and on 

 the upper tail-coverts ; least wing-coverts brown, edged with grey ; 

 rest of wing-coverts, and a broad edge of the outer web of most of 

 the primary quills chestnut-brown ; rest of outer web, especially 

 the basal part, and the whole of the inner web uniform brown ; 

 central pair of tail-feathers ashy brown, with numerous but faintly 

 marked dark cross bars ; all the other feathers of the tail black, 

 and largely tipped with white ; crown of head rufescent brown ; a 

 broad fulvous white streak extends from the nostrils over the eye 

 onto the occiput, and is separated from the pale ashy-brown ear- 

 coverts by a black streak, which begins at the hinder corner of the 

 eye; loral region black; all the underparts are ashy grey, darker 

 on the breast, flanks, under tail- and under wing-coverts, lighter on 

 the middle of the abdomen, and gradually passing into dingy white 

 on the throat, chin, and cheeks ; edge of wing grey, mottled with 

 whitish ; under surface of quills uniform sepia-brown, without any 

 light or reddish edging to the inner web ; colour of the bill and of 

 the feet dark horny brown or black ; " eyes black " (Atmore). 

 Total length 8 inches, culmen 1-05, wing 3-25, tail 3-75, tarsus 

 1-1. 



Yoinuj. Very similar to the old bird, but generally paler ; the 

 wing-coverts more huffy red instead of the deep chestnut colour of 

 the adult birds ; the broad superciliary streak washed -with rufous ; 

 underparts, especially the under tail-coverts, washed with fulvous 

 grey. 



Hah. Cape Colony. 



a, b. Ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [P.l. 



c. Juv. sk. South x\frica. Sir A. Smith [P.J. 



d. Ad. sk. Cape of Good Hope. F. Campbell, Esq. [P.]. 



e. Ad. sk. Grahamstown {T. C. Atmore). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



2. Telophonus trivirgatus. 



Malaconotus australis, Smith, Rep. Espl. Exped. p. 44 (1836). 

 Telophorus trivirgatus, Smith, Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. xciv. (1849) ; 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 29:2 ; id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 399, no. 6053. 

 Telephonus trivirgatus, Bp. C. A. i. p. 361 ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 106 ; Bicuw. Spec. Zool. Mosamh. p. 400 ; Hartl. P. Z. S. 



1865, pp. 88 & 93; Hem/l. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 471 ; Finsch ^ 



Hartl. Vo(/. Odafr. p. 338 ; Reichenoiv, J. f. O. 1875, p. 27, & 



1877, p. 23 ; Bocaye, Orn. (T Angola, p. 224. 

 Telephonus frenatus, Licht. Nomencl. p. 12 (1854). 

 Telophonus trivirgatus, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 160. 

 Pomatorhynchus trivirgatus, Gum. in Anderss. B. Hamara Land, 



p. lol. 

 Laniaiius trivirgatus, Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 396 (1881). 



