body white, with a distinct piukish Huge on the breast and flanks ; 

 iinder wing-coverts white, tliose near the edge of the wing bLack, 

 like the edge itself ; " bill black ; feet dusky lead-colour ; iris chest- 

 nut " {Heuglin). 



Total length. Ciilmeu. Wing. 



in. in. in. 



9-2 0-95 40 



6 8-7 0-85 4-0 



2 S-2 0-90 3-8 



Ohs. The female specimen from the Anseba has a few pure white 

 feathers on the forehead near the bill and the nostrils ; the outer 

 web of one of the secondaries on the right wing is moreover very 

 faintly edged with white. The fine fully grown specimen from 

 Bogos has also one of the secondaries of the right wing edged with 

 white on the middle third of the outer web. 



Hah. X.E. Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Bogos Land {EsJer). R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Anseba valley, July 30, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [0.1. 



1868. 



c. c? ad. sk. Senate, Tigi-e, May 27, W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



186S. 



d. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Purchased. 



c. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Sir W. C. Harris [C.]. 



12. Dryoscopus tiiratii. 



Drvoscopus turatii, Verr. Hev. et Mag. de Zool. 1858, p. 304, pi. 7; 



Hartl.J.f. O. 1861. p. 172. 

 Laniarius turatii, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 397, no. 6029 ; Finsch 8,- 



Hartl. Yog. Ostafr. p. 348. 



Adv.lf. General colour above, including the scapulars, hind neck 

 and head, and the whole baelv, black : wings, wing-coverts, and tail 

 entirely black ; the long fluffy feathers of the rump with white oval 

 Bubtermiual spots ; chin, cheeks, throat, and breast whitish isabel- 

 line, with a slight rosy tinge : abdomen, flanks, thighs, and under 

 tail-coverts pure white ; " bill black ; feet lead-colour, claws dark 

 olive " (Ven-eaux). Total length 8-5 inches, cuLmen 0-95, wing 4-1, 

 tail 4-1, tarsus 1-5. 



JIah. Senegambia. 



13. Dryoscopus sublacteus. 



Drvoscopus sublacteus, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1851, p. 246 (nee 

 Verr.); Bp. C. B. xxxviii. p. 535; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. Ill 

 (pt., teste Ifartl.) ; id. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 825 ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1877, 

 p. 207; id. 4- Beichenow, op. cit. 1878, p. 259, 1879, p. 346. 



Malaconotus sublacteus, Cah. in Von der Dccken's Beise, iii. p. 26, 

 Taf. iv. 



Laniarius sublacteus, Finsch <§• Hartl. Voi/. Ostafr. p. 347 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 397, no. 6021. 



Adult male. Above, including the head, wings, and tail glossy 



