9. TELOPflONUS. 225 



Telephonus senegalus, Bp C A. i. p. 361; LtcJU. Nomencl. p. 11 ; 



Marti. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 10a 

 Poiiiatoiliyncliu.s erythropterus, Cub. Mus. Hein. i p 69 

 Poiuatorhynclms orimtalis, Cab. in V. d. Deckens Beis iii p 27 

 leH)honu. erythropterus (non Shaiu), Hmyl. S>/sf. Uebers. -p.' 33- 



J, "' --"•■■• ' ",'/• vj^oit*//. jj. o^u j jrmncn, l r. ^,. <\ V]i n ■-',^4 • 



liharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 51 ; Reichenow, J. f. O. 1875 n 27 1877* 

 p. 23 ; Fischer, J.f. Q. 1879, p. 347. ' ^' ' ' 



Telophonus erythropterus, Laijard, B. South Afr p 160 

 Lamanus senegalus, Sharpe, ed. Laijard B. 8. Afr. ^. 397 (1882). 



Adult. Win^ neck and mantle ochraceous brown, passing into ashy 

 brown with an olive tinge ; scapulars brownish black, with a broad 

 rufous margin to the outer and inner webs ; all the wino--coverts 

 almost entirely chestnut-red, except the basal part of the°feathers 

 which IS blackish ; the greater part of the outer web of the primary 

 and a broad edge to the secondary quills chestnut-colour, rest of 

 the quills black-brown ; the innermost secondary quills maro-ined 

 with rutous on both the inner and outer webs ; central pair of 

 tail-leathers ashy brown, with numerous dark but faintly marked 

 cross waves; the other feathers are black, and broadly tipped with 

 white, which colour extends up the outer web of the outermost pair • 

 a broad and very pronounced streak extends from the nostrils back- 

 wards over the eye and the ear-coverts, almost meeting at the hinder 

 margin of the black occiput with its fellow from the other side • 

 this stre^ak IS white from the nostrils to the eye, the rest is ochra- 

 ceous ; the black postocular streak, bordering the ear-coverts is very 

 distinctly marked ; lores black ; ear-coverts and sides of the neck 

 ochraceous brown, a little paler than the neck ; chin, cheeks, and 

 middle part of throat white ; under tail-coverts cream-colour- breast 

 flanks, and abdomen ashy grey as in T. erythropterus; under 

 wing-coverts and a broad margin to the inner w'ebs of the primary 

 and secondary quills pale rufous : edge of wing pure white ■ thio-hg 

 cream-colour or pale ochraceous, sometimes washed with c-rev • 

 " teet pale slaty, claws rather darker ; bill black, base of upper and 

 a good deal of under mandible light slaty" (Gates). Total length 

 about 8-5 inches, culmen 0-85-1, wing 3-20-3-6 tail 3-75-4-t 

 tarsus 1-1-1-2. /<j— t-j, 



In order to show that these great differences in size are merely 

 local variations, I give the length of the wings of all the adult 

 specimens of T. senegalus at present in the Is^ational collection. 



Length of wing, 

 inrhes. 



«. Wsk. 3-.3 W.Africa. Capt. SaWne, R.^^ rp.]. 



c Ad. .k. 3-2.J Gambia. R. B. Sharpe Eso 



d. Ad. sk. 3-2 Beulah Road, Gold R. B. Sliarje,' S' 



Coast, Nov. 2"), 1871 ^" 



(Bli'<s'>tt). 



e. Ad. sk. 3-2 Accra (Sn,ith). R. R. Sharpe, Esq. 



