10. DRT08C0PUS. 137 



Dryoscrpus major, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. Ill ; id. J. f. O. 1861, 

 p. 172; HeiTie, op. cit. 1860, p. 134; Shurpc, Ibis, 1869, p. 190; 

 Shelley, op. cit. 1872, p. 288 ; Utssher, up. cit. 1874, p. 03 ; Boc. 

 Orn. d'Anc/.-p. 228 (1877). 



Dryoscopus mossainbicus, Reichen. J.f. O. 1880, p. 141. 



Adult. General colour above glossy blue-black, the scapulars and 

 feathers of the lower back and rump mottled with large ovate spots 

 of white ; basal half of all the feathers grey ; least wing-coverts like 

 the back, the median series pure white, with blackish-brown bases, 

 as also the innermost of tlie greater series ; all the rest of the wing- 

 coverts and primary-coverts entirely black ; quills black, with two 

 of the inner secondaries externallj' edged with white, forming a 

 narrow white line down the wing ; upper tail-coverts and tail en- 

 tirely black ; lores, sides of face, and eai-coverts black ; cheeks and 

 under surface of body pure white, with a faint pinkish blush on the 

 breast and flanks ; under tail-coverts always white ; under wing- 

 coverts white, the small ones and the edge of wing black : quills 

 ashy black below ; " bill and feet black ; iris dark " (Eeichenow). 

 Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0-95, wing 4*15, tail 4, tarsus 1-4. 



Obs. Specimens not fully adult have the sides of breast, flanks, 

 and thighs more creamy white ; quills blackish brown ; scapulars and 

 wing-coverts narrowly tipped with whitish. One specimen from the 

 Gaboon has one of the outer tail-feathers, a specimen from Fantee 

 the two outer pairs of the tail-feathers, conspicuously tipped with 

 white. The amount of white on the outer web of the secondaries is 

 svibject to much variation in D. major and in the allied species. 



Hah. "NYcst Africa, from the Gold Coast to the Congo, and extend- 

 ing across the continent to East Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. West Africa. F. D. Godmanand 0. Sal- 



vin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Ashantee. J. Gould, Esq. 



f. Ad. sk. Fantee (C7:«/(«-). Ft. B. Sharpe, E.sq. 



d, e. Ad. sk. Fantee (Aubinn). H. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



/. Ad. sk. Accra {Smith). E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



q. Ad. sk. Aheokuta. F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.J. 



A.Ad. sk. Gaboon. M. Marche [C.] 



?', A-. Ad. sk. Laudana, Congo. Dr. Lucan [C.]. 



I, m. Ad. sk. Quilombo, Angola, June E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 1878 {A. Heath). 



Subspecies a. Dryoscopus guttatus. 



Drvoscopus guttatus, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 86 ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 



] 867, pp. 138, 333, 1808, p. 43 ; Sharjie, ed. Layard B. 'S. Afr. p. 392. 

 Laniarius guttatus, Finsch iS;- Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 345, note ; Gray, 



H(md-l. B. i. p. 397, no. 6030. 

 Dryoscopus major (pt.), Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 47; Bocat/e, Jorn. 



Lisb. 1875, p. 104, 1877, p. 67 ; Sharpe ^- Bunvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 



France, i. p. 40 ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 228. 

 Faniarius major, Giuiuy, in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 145. 

 Dryoscopus, sp., Bucage, Jorn. Lisb. li;<75, p. 104. 

 PDryotcopus neglectu's; Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 230 (1877). 



