344 C0LIIDJ2. 



maroon on the lower rump ; upper tail-coverts and tail grey, the 

 lateral feathers edged with white ; wings grey like the back ; the 

 quills brown, externally grey ; sides of face, car-coTerts, and throat 

 grey with a lilac tinge, becoming decidedly purplish on the breast 

 and sides of the body ; abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts pale 

 ochreous buff; lesser wing-coverts white; median series black; 

 quills dusky below, ashy whitish along the inner web : " bill black 

 at tip, dark crimson at base, as is the cere ; bare skin round eye 

 bright scarlet ; tarsi and feet dark pink ; iris greyish white " 

 {T. Ai/res). Total length 12"5 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-5, tail 8, 

 tarsus 0'8. 



Hab. South Africa. 



a, b. Ad. sk. South Africa. Old Collection. 



c-e. Ad. sk. Cape Colony {Layard ^' Butler). Shelley Coll. 



/, ^. Ad. sk. Otjimbinque.Damara-land, July, Sharpe Coll. 



Aug. (C. J. Andersson). 



8. Colius erythromelon. 



? Loxia cinerea, Sjjarnn. Mus. Carlss. pi. 88 (1786). 



Indian Coly, Lat?t. Geti. Syn. Siippl. i. p. 147 (1787). 



Colius indicus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 370 (1790) ; Gray, Gen. B. ii. 

 p. 39.3 (1848) ; Bi). Comp. i. p. 84 (1850). 



Colius coromandelicus, Licht. Hamb. Nat. Verz. 1793, p. 42. 



Le Coliou Quiriva, Levaill Ois. d'Afr. vi. p. 42, pi. 258 (1808) ; 

 Sundeu. Krit. Framst. Levaill. p. 52 (1857). 



Colius ervthromelon, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. vii. p. 378 (1817) ; 

 Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 393 (1848) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 124, no. 7843 

 (1870) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam.-Ld. p. 203 (1872) ; Buck- 

 le}/, Ibis, 1874, p. 373 (Transvaal); Ayres, Ibis, 1880, p. 108 

 (Rustenberg) ; Sharpe in Oates's Matabele-Land, p. 305 (1881) ; 

 id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 551, 853 (1884) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 

 1884, p. 473, pi. 45 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1885, p. 309. 



Colius carunculatus, Steph. in Shaiv's Gen. Zool. xiv. p. 91 (1826). 



Colius senegalensis {nee Gm.), Less. Traite, p. 453 (1831). 



Colius quuiva, Rilpp. Mus. Senckenb. iii. p. 43 (1845) ; Schl. Mus. 

 Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 80 (1864) ; Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 329 (Zam- 

 besi) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 715 (1870). 



Colius macrurus {)iec Gtn.), Strickl. ^- Scl. Contr. Orn. 18-52, p. 151. 



Urocolius indicus, Bp). Consp. Vol. Anis. p. 3 (1854). 



Colius erythromelas, Cah. S,- Hein. Mus. Ilein. Th. iii. p. 97 (1860) ; 

 Finsch Sf Hartl. Vbg. Ostafr. p. 469 (1870) ; Bocaye, Orn. Angola, 

 p. 128 (1877). 



CoHus capensis {nee Gm.), Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 222 (1867). 



Adult. General colour above greenish grey, slightly ochraceous 

 on the back and rump, the green more pronounced on the wings ; 

 tail-feathers green, dusky internally, with black shafts ; crown of 

 head greenish grey, with a slight wash of sandy buff on the crest ; 

 forehead tawny buff; sides of neck like the back, but the ear- 

 coverts and cheeks decidedly green, the fore part of the cheeks 

 fulvescent ; throat and under surface of body sandy buff, the sides 

 of the body greenish grey, the flanks and under tail-coverts 



