10. DRToscorus. 135 



Malaconotus boulbonl, Cah. Miis. Hein. i. p. 69 (pt.). 



Dryoscopus boulboul, Bp. Consp. i. p. 361 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. 



p 48 ; Shelley, Ihis, 187o, p. 77 ; Barratf, op. cit. 1876, p. 204. 

 Malaconotus ferrugineus, Grill, Zool. Anteck. p. 32. 

 Laniarius rufiventris, Fimch ^- Hartl. Viig. Ostafr. p. 3/44. 

 Dryoscopus rufiventris, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. pp. 344, cxvii. 



AditU male. General colour above black, with a very slig-ht 

 greeuish gloss : the lores, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts 

 black, uniform with the crown ; wing-coverts black, the median 

 series and some of the greater inner coverts externally broadly edged 

 or tipped with white, forming a bar across the wing, two of the 

 secondary quills having likewise white edges, forming a longitudinal 

 bar down the wing ; remainder of quills black ; lower back flufly, 

 mottled with subterminal oval spots of whitish: the rump-feathe'i.s 

 tipped with light orange-buff; upper tail-coverts and tail black ; 

 cheeks and under surface of body creamy white with a pinkish 

 tinge, deepening into fawn-buff on the abdomen, flanks, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts and axillaries light fawn- 

 buff, edge of wing and the smaller coverts near the edge of the 

 wing black : " bill duU black : legs grey ; iris dark brown " (SJulJei/). 

 Total length about 8 to 9 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 3-S to 4, tail 

 3"8 to 4-1, tarsus 1-45. 



Adult female. Dark ashy brown where the male is black ; under 

 surface of body deep fawn-colour, paler on the throat. Total length 

 7-7 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 3-70, tail 3-7, tarsus 1-35. 



Touncj. Dark ashy brown, like the old female, but mottled with 

 cross bars of blackish and sandy buff; wing-coverts mottled like the 

 back ; quills externally brownish, the secondaries edged with bufiy 

 white ; tail-feathers brown, tipped with sandy buff, the feathers 

 subterminally mottled with narrow dark brown zigzag markings ; 

 ear-coverts blackish, streaked longitudinally with sandy buff ; under 

 surface of body orange-buff; the throat whitish, baiTcd across with 

 dusky greyish brown, as also on the breast and flanks ; under wing- 

 coverts orange-buff, the quills ashy below, fulvous along the edge of 

 the inner webs ; " biU horn-colour, fading into white at base of 

 lower mandible " (Shellei/). 



Hab. South Africa, ranging through Xatal into the Transvaal. 



a. (S ad. St. South Africa, Soutli-.\frican Museum. 



h. 2 ad. St. South Airica. Maior-Gen. Hardwicke 



[P.]. 



c. 2 ad. St. South Africa. Dr. Kness [P.]. 



d. Pidl. St. South Africa. Piev. H. T. Phillips [P.]. 



e. S ad. sk. South Africa E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



{Lmjard). 



/. 6 ad. sk. Cape of Good Hope Voy. of H.M.S. ' Ptattle- 



(J. 3Iacf/illiira;/). snake.' 



ff. $ ad. ; h. Juv. Knysna, Dec. 1865 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



sk. (Afider-^soti). 



{. Juv. sk. S.E. Africa. .John Rocke, Esq. fP 1 



A-. Juv. sk. Eland's Post (r. C. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Afniore). 



I. S ad. sk. KingwilHamstowu. Capt. H. Trevelyan [P.l 



