21. CORVINELLA, 281 



«. d ad. sk. W. Java. A. R.Wallace, Esq. fC], 



^- Ad. St. Java. E. Wilson, Esq. [P.]. 



<"• Ad. St. Java. Leiden Museum [E.]. 



21. CORVINELLA. 



Type. 

 Corvinella, Lesson, Traite (rOrnifh. p. 372 (18?.l) C. coiviiia. 



1. Coi'viaeUa corvina. 



Lag-rande Pie-g-rieche, Lev. Ois. cVAfr.-^\. 78; Simdcv. Krit. Framst., 



Levaill. p. 32. 

 Lanius corviuus, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 357. 

 Lauius cissoides, Vivill. Enc. Meth. ii. p. 734. 

 Lanius luellivorus, Licht. Verz. Dotibl. p. 49. 

 Coi-viuella corvina, Lesson, Traite cTOrn. p. 372; Cab. Mus. Hein. i. 



p. 75; Bj). C. A. i. p. .305; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 104; Sharpe, 



Cat. Aft: B. p. 51 ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 71 ; Usshcr, Ibis, 1874, p. 65 ; 



Antinori, Cat. p. 57 ; Salmd. Riv. Cat. Antin. p. 738 ; Heuul. 



Peterm. Geo,/,: Mittheil. 18(J9, p. 414. 

 Lanius tiavirostris, Stvaius. Class. B. ii. p. 219; id. B. West-Afr. i. 



p. 233. 

 Corvinella aiBnis, Hetujl. Syst. Uebers. p. 34; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 



pp. 488, cxxii; id. J.f. O. 1863, p. 271, 1864, p. 254. 

 Corvinella corvina uubiie, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 104, note ; Filippi, 



Rev. ^- Man. Z<>ol- 1863, p. 290. 

 CoUurio corvinus, Gray, Iland-l. B. i. p. 392, no. 5903. 



Adult. General colour above fulvescent grey, with rather broad 

 dark brown shaft-streaks to the feathers ; scapulars whitish grey ; 

 rump paler, and the shaft-streaks less visible ; top of the head, 

 hind neck, and upper tail-coverts fulvous, every feather with a 

 very distinct dark-brown shaft-streak ; lores and ear-coverts dark 

 brown ; wing-coverts and quills brown, with lighter margins, the 

 middle third of the primaries pale chestnut-buff ; the central pair 

 of tail-feathers brown, the others paling into sandy buff, the outer 

 ones marked with a darker lino running round the feather near the 

 margin of the inner and the outer web ; chin, throat, and breast 

 dull white, slightly tinged with pale reddish brown, tlie feathers 

 with brown shaft-streaks ; remainder of under surface, and sides of 

 the body and the thighs dull white, the shaft-streaks very faint ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillarios and edge of wing like the breast ; 

 under surface of quills brownish for the terminal half, the remainder 

 light rufous; bill yellow; feet fuscous brown. Total length 11-5 

 inches, culmen 0"G5, wing 4-5, tail 68, tarsus 1'2. 



Young. Darker and more ashy brown on the upper surface of the 

 body ; scapulars marked with a narrow dark brown line near the 

 margin of the inner and the outer web ; under surface of the body 

 dull reddish white, every featlier marked with a narrow shaft-streak 

 and several subterminal cross bars ; sides of the breast with a large 

 patch of light rufous. 



Ohs. Two other specimens, also from the river Gambia, have the 

 same colouring as the young bird described above ; but the basal half 



