144 LAXIIDJE. 



of D. gamhensis, and has the under wing-coverfcs black ; entire upper 

 surface, except the rump, deep black ; underparts and rump white ; 

 wings clear black, with no white edgings or tips to either quills or 

 coverts ; tail black, shafts of feathers white at base beneath ; bill 

 black : tarsi brown ; inferior wing-coverts black (white in D. affinis). 

 Total length 7^ inches, wing 4, tail S^. (Cassia, I.e.) 

 Hah. Eastern Africa ? 



18. Dryoscopus salimae. 



Drvoscopus affinis, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 825 (teste Fiiisch ^ 



Hartl). 

 Lauiarius orientalis (nee Swains, nee Gray), Finsch ^ Hartl. Vog. Ost- 



afr. p. :H51 {1870) tab. v. fig. 2. 

 Drvoscopus orientalis, Cah. in v. d. Dechen's Reis. iii. p. 25 (1869) 



(Dryoscopus leucopsis, Cah. MS.). 

 Lauiai-ius salimfe, Finsch S,- Hartl. Viig. Ostafr. p. 349, tab. v. fig. 3 



(is probably the male of D. leucopsis, Cab.) ; Gray, Hancl-l. B. 1. 



p. 397, no. 6033. 

 Drvoscopus salimse, Fischer ^- Reichenoxc, J.f. 0. 1878, p. 258 ; Fischer, 



i. c. p. 274. 

 Dryoscopus leucopsis, Fischer, J. f. 0. 1878, p. 274 *. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy blue-black, the scapiilars 

 pure white, the longer ones black on the inner web, forming a large 

 shoulder-patch ; least wing-coverts black, the median and greater 

 series edged with white ; quills black, very narrowly edged with 

 white, so that the primaries on their terminal half look almost 

 entirely black ; lower back and rump pure white, without any 

 terminal greyish tinge ; upper tail-coverts black ; tail-feathers black, 

 with very narrow whitish tips, the outer web of the outer pair very 

 narrowly edged with this colour : lores, feathers round the eye, and 

 upper edge of the car-coverts blue-black ; rest of the ear-coverts, 

 cheeks, sides of neck, and entire under surface pure white, including 

 the under wing-coverts and the edge of wing and the inner edge of 

 the quills, which are dusky black below ; near the edge of the 

 wino- below a small patch of blackish feathers ; " bill black, feet 

 blackish " (Finsch ^- Hartl.). 



Adult fi-male. Differs from the male in having the lores white, 

 leaving a" black spot in front of the eye, and having the lower back 

 grey, with white terminal tips to some of the feathers, forming a 

 band across the rump ; shoulder-patch less distinct, the scapulars 

 being dull white, aU of them black on the inner web ; under sur- 

 face pure white. 



* The following references I am unable to make out: — 

 Malaconotus orientalis, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 220 (1837). 



And consequently also 



Laniarius oi-ientalis, G. B. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 292. 



Dryoscopus orientalis, Bp. C. A. p. 361 ; id. C. R. xxsviii. p. 534. 



