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b. Mantle aud back grey ; centre of lower back 



white, with a broad band of black on each 



side; upper tail-coverts maroon ; tail grey. . colius, t^. SiS. 



c. Mantle and back ashy or lavender-brown ; 



lower back and rump bluish ashy ; tail 



greenish or bluish grey ; nostrils yellow, 



included in the yellow base of the upper 



mandible. 



c'. No blue on the sides of the nape erythromelon, p. 344. 



d'. A large tuft of verditer-blue feathers on 



each side of the nape macrurus, p. 345. 



1. Colius striatus. 



Le Coliou de I'isle Panay, Sonn. Voy. JVouv. Guinee, p. IIG, pi. 74 



(1776); Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 400 (1778). 

 Le CoUou ray (5, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iv. p. 405 (1788). 

 Tanagra macrura (tiec L.), Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubv. ii, p. 95 



(1786). 

 Eadiated Coly, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. i. p. 102 (1783, ex Buff.). 

 Pauayan Coly, Lath. t. c. p. 103 (1783, ex Sonn.). 

 Colius striatus, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 843 (1788) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 



p. 393 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 86 (1850) ; Cab. S,- Heine, Mus. 



Hein. Th. ii. p. 96 (1859) ; Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 213 (Natal) ; id. 



Ibis, 1862, p. 157, 1864, p. 359 ; Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, 



p. 80 (1864) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 124, no. 7844 (1870) ; Peh. 



Ibis, 1873, p. 116; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 81 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard^s 



B. S. Afr. pp. 558, 853 (1875-84) ; Banritt, Ibis, 1876, p. 204 ; 



Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 311 ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1889, p. 272 (Quili- 



mane). 

 Colius panayensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 843 (1788). 

 Le Coliou ray^, Levaill. Ois. W Afr. vi. p. 36, pi. 256 (1808) ; Sundev. 



Krit. Framst. Levaill. p. 53 (1858). 

 Ehabdocolius striatus, Bp. Cortsp. Vol. Anis. p. 3 (1854), 

 Colius minor. Cab. J.f. 0. 1876, p. 94. 

 Colius striatus intermedins, 1 



Colius striatus typicus, > Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 311. 

 Colius striatus minor, ) 



Adult. General colour above brown, with more or less obsolete 

 vermiculalions ; a few dusky brown cross lines appearing on the 

 neck and mantle ; the back, rnmp, upper tail-coverts, and wings 

 dull ashy, the primaries externally brown near the base ; centre 

 tail-feathers ashy, with brown shafts ; the remainder ashy exter- 

 nally with reddish-brown shafts, the inner webs also inclining to 

 rufescent brown, the outer web externally edged with white ; head, 

 strongly crested, a little lighter ashy than the back ; base of the 

 forehead dusky reddish as well as the lores ; sides of face and oar- 

 coverts light ashy brown ; throat and breast ashy brown, with 

 tolerably distinct blackish cross lines ; sides of the body like the 

 breast, but gradually fading off into ochreous buff' on the flanks ; 

 lower breast and abdomen ochreous buff, inclining to rufous on the 

 under tail-coverts ; the throat more or less blackish where the 

 grey tips to the feathers get worn off, and the black bases show 



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