134 LAKintJE. 



5. Dryoscopus lueMeri. 



Laniarius luelideri, Reichen. J.f. 0. 1S74, p. 101 ; id. J.f. 0. 1875, p. 28. 



Dryoscopus coronatus, S/tarpe, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 205, pi. xxxiii. fig. 2. 

 Adult male. Above black, with a glossy greenish lustre ; scapu- 

 lars and quills entirely black, except two or three of the inner 

 secondaries, which are externally edged with white ; the greater 

 wing-coverts broadly tipped with white, forming a wing-band, 

 which is continued down the wing ; upper tail-coverts and tail 

 entirely black ; head and nape chestnut ; forehead and a narrow 

 superciliary line fulvous ; lores, sides of face, and ear-coverts 

 glossy black ; cheeks and entire throat and breast clear chestnut- 

 fawn colour: abdomen, thighs, sides of body, and under wing-coverts 

 and tail-coverts pure white ; bill and feet black ; " iris dark reddish 

 brown" (Reichenoiu). Total length 7-2 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 

 3-65, tail 3-6, tarsus 1-3. 



Hab. Camaroons and Gaboon. 



a. (S ad. sk. Eiver Danger, Gaboon. H. T. Ansell, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of D. coronatus.^ 



6. Dryoscopus angolensis. 



Dryoscopus angolensis, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. Ill ; id J.f. 0. 1861, 



p. 172. 

 Laniarius angolensis, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 397, no. 6027 ; Finsch 

 I- Hartl. Vo(j. Ostafr. p. 342. 

 Adult [?] (type of species). General colour slaty grey, rather lighter 

 than the rump ; upper tail-coverts slaty grey ; tail-feathers brown, 

 the centre feathers grey, with numerous very faint dusky cross bars ; 

 wing-coverts rather browner than the back, but shaded with the 

 same slaty grey ; quills dark brown, edged with lighter brown, 

 some of them with grey ; entire crown, nape, hind neck, and sides 

 of the latter blue-black ; throat, cheeks, and ear-coverts white, the 

 upper edge of the latter blue-black ; rest of under surface of body 

 pale ashy, inclining more to pale blue-grey on the flanks, the thighs 

 and under tail-coverts whiter ; under wing-coverts whitish ash- 

 colour, as also the inner lining of the quills ; bill black ; " feet 

 light reddish ; iris dark blue, the pupil dark blue or black " (Mon- 

 teiro). Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-2, tail 2*9, 

 tarsus 0-92. 



Mab. Interior of Angola. 



a. Ad. sk. Bembe, Angola, J. J. Monteiro, Esq. [C.]. 



May 5, 1858. (Type of species.) 



7. Dryoscopus rufiveutris. 



Le Boubou, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. pi. 68 (nee Boulboul, Lath.). 

 Malaconotus ruliventris, Stvains. Class. B. ii. p. 220 {e.r Levaill!). 

 Laniarius boulboul, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 299 : id. Hand-l. B. i. p. 398, 



no. 6040; At/res, Ibis. 1864, p. 351 ; Gurnet/, Ibis, 1868, p. 159; 



Ayres, Ibis, 1876, p. 430, & 1879, p. 400. 

 Laniarius ferrugineus, Sundev. Krit. Frainst., Levaill. p. 31 (1857) ; 



Layard B. S. Afr. n. 325 {see also Gurney, Ibis, 1868, p. 160, 



note) ; Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 393. 



