162 LANlIDiE. 



Gen. B. i. p. 298; Bp. Comp. i. p. 359; ShvUeij, Ibis, 1875, p. 77 



Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. SS2. 

 Chlorophoueus olivaceus, C(tb. Mus. Hehi. Th. i. p. 71. 

 Malaconotus olivaceus, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 584. 

 Malaconotus oleaginus, Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 12. 

 Telephorus olivaceus, Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. .398, no. 6049. 



Adult male. General colour above, including the crown of the 

 head and the upper tail-coverts, uniform olive-green ; wing-coverts 

 and quills blackish brown internally, olive-green externally ; tips 

 of the secondary quills with very narrow ])ale margins ; the four 

 central pairs of the tail-feathers black, with very faint and narrow 

 yellowish tips ; the two outer pairs have the basal half of the 

 outer web and the basal two thirds of the inner web black, and the 

 remainder yellow or yellowish ; lores yellow ; region all round the 

 eye and the ear-covcrts black ; chin, cheeks, throat, and chest dull 

 yellow, passing into lemon-yellow on the middle of the breast, on 

 the abdomen, and the under tail-coverts ; flanks and thighs olive- 

 yellow ; iindor wing-coverts and a broad edge on the inner web of 

 the quills sulphur-yellow ; axillaries and edge of wing richer yellow ; 

 quills dark brown below ; biU black ; feet brownish in the .skin. 

 Total length 6-5 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3'2, tail 3-4, tarsus 

 1-05. 



Adnlt female. Like the male, but less brightly coloured ; ear- 

 coverts brownish olive ; tail uniform olive, only the outer pairs 

 narrowly edged with yellow on the inner web ; the flanks and sides 

 of the breast are olive-yellow, and show numerous but extremely 

 faint cross bars of a somewhat darker or more olive hue ; bill 

 brownish. 



Hah. South Africa. 



a,b. c? ? ad. sk. Port Natal, June (Wah/Lcn/). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c. c? ad. sk. ■ South Aii'ica. Purchased. 



d. 5 ad. St. South Africa. Purchased. 



14. Laniarius bakbakiri. 



Turdus zeylonus, Linne, S. N. no. 28 (17C0). 



? Merle a collier du Cap de Bonne Esperance, d'Aub. PL Enl. 272. 



Turdus gutturalis, P. L. S. 3Ialler, Natursysf.., Anhang, p. 144. 



Le Bacbakiri, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. ii. tab. 67 ; Sundev. Erit. Fratnst., 



Levaill. p. -31. 

 Lanius backbakiri, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 319. 

 Laniarius bachakiii, Vieill. N. Diet. xiii. p. 298 (1817) ; Bp. C. A. i. 



p. 360 ; Monteiro, P. Z. 8. 1865, p. 93 ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. xiii 



p. 67. 

 Tchagra bacbakiri, Less. Trdiite, p. 373 (1831). 



Telophorus collaris, Swains'. Faun. Bor.-Amer., Birds, p. 481 (1831). 

 Lanius ornatus, Licht. Vei'z. Doubl. no. 486. 

 Telophorus zeylonus, Gray, Geti. B. i. p. 292. 

 Telephonus bacbakiri, Cab. Mas. Hein. pt. i. p. 70 (18.50). 

 Pelicinius zeylonus, Bp. C. R. xxxix. p. 5.34 (1854). 



