170 LANIID^. 



the throat and sides of the body rather broadly barred with dark 

 brown. 



Hah. Northern Africa, from Senegambia to Abyssinia. 



a. Juv. St. River Gambia. AJrican Museum. 



6,c. Ad. Eylet, Boo-os (i:*7e/-). E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d. ^ ad. sk. Bogos-land (Esler). E. B. Sharps, Esq. 



e. $ juv. sk. Ailat, March 30, 1868. W. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



f. 5 ad. sk. Rairo, Habab, Aug. 13, W. T. BLiuford, Esq. fC.]. 



y. (S ad. sk. Waliko, Anseba valley, AY. T. Blanford, Esq. [C.]. 



July 21, 1868. 



3. Nilaus affinis. 



Nilaus brubru (?), Boc. Jorn. Lish. no. xxii. pp. 154, 196. 

 Nilaus affinis, id. op. cit. no. xxiii. pp. 204, '2\Z, 271, xxviii. p. 239 

 (1880); id. Orn. d^Ang., Append, p. 549 (1881). 



Adult male. General coloration of plumage black and white. AU 

 the underparts, a narrow frontal band, and narrow superciliary 

 stripe are pure white ; a black spot just in front of the eye ; rest 

 of upper parts black, mottled with white ; crown and occiput jet- 

 black ; wings black ; secondaries and their coverts broadly edged 

 with white; tail black, with small white tips; outer web of the 

 three or four outer tail-feathers with large white patches on their 

 middle third. Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-'j5, wing 3-4, 

 tail '2-'2, tarsus 0"85. 



Hab. Angola. 



a. S ad. sk. Cacouda {Anchieta). Lisbon Museum [P.]. 



NEOLESTES. 



Type. 

 Xeolestes, Calanis, J.f. O. 1875, p. 237 X. torquatus. 



Head of Neokstcs torquatus. 



Culmen and genys curved downwards ; no tooth, but a slight 

 notch near the tip of the maxilla. Kostrils semilunar, with a well- 

 developed coriaceous operculum, quite exposed : rictal bristles. Eirst 

 primary more than half of the next one in length ; tip of wing 

 formed by fourth, fifth, and sixth primaries ; secondaries compara- 

 tively long. Tail equal to wing in length, slightly rounded. Tarsus 

 in front covered ^ith transverse scales. Feathers of back and rump 

 fairly woolly. Length of wing about 2-7 inches. 



A\'est Africa. 



