15. LOPnocERos. 415 



h. (S ad.sk. llustenburg', May (r. .4yrcs). J. II. Gurney, Esq. 



hji k. d 2 ad. sk. Crocodile Kiver, July {Gates). Shelley Coll. 



/. c? iul. sk. Cape (Butler). Shelley Coll. 



m. Ad. St. S. Africa. Sir A."^ Smith [P.]. 



«.. Ad. sk. Damaraland (Anderssnri) . Shelley Coll. 



0. Ad. sk. Damaraland {Anderssoii). Sharpe Coll. 



;>. Imm. .«k. Damaraland. Sir J. Alexander [C.]. 



q. Ad. sk. Otjimbinque, June {Anders- Sharpe Coll. 



son). 



r, *. cf ad. et imm. Otjimbinque, June, Alio-. Tweeddale Coll. 



sk. {Andcrsson). 



t. J ad. sk. Schmelen's Hope, Jan. Sharpe Coll. 



{Andcrsson). 



u. Imm. sk. Great Namaqualand, April Sharpe Coll. 



{Andcrsson). 



15. Lophoceros elegans. 



Toccus elegans, Harthiuh, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 80, pi. iv. 



Ijophoceros elegans, Shcl/ci/, Ibis^ 1883, p. 68. 



Tockus flavirostris, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 9 [part.] (1871) ; Elliot, 



Mono(jr. Bucerot. pi. 51 [text, part.] (1877) ; Bocaae, Orn. Anaola, 



p. 119 (1881). 

 Alophius flavirostris, Dubois, Bull. Mus. Behj. iii. p. 218 (1884). 



Adult male. Very similar in plumage to L.JIavirosfris undL. leu- 

 conieJas ; the third to the seventh primaries are spotted on hoth 

 webs with white, those on the inner not quite reaching the outer 

 margin of the feathers, the last three primaries and the first three 

 secondaries black, the fourth and fifth spotted on both webs with 

 white, the sixth and seventh more white than black, and the 

 remainder like the scapulars brownish edged with white ; first and 

 second pairs of tail-feathers black, remainder widely tipped with 

 white as in L. flavirostris, and with a band of white across the 

 middle of the black, narrowest on the third and widest on the filth 

 pair, in which the white extends almost to the base of the feathers ; 

 the feathers of the chest are edged with black as in L. leiicomelas, 

 and without the black shaft-stripes characteristic of i.^^ay/rasim. 

 The colours of the soft parts are the same as in L. Uucomelas. 

 Total length 17'4 inches, wing 7*2, tail 7'7, tarsus 1-6. 



Adult female. Itesemblcs the adult male ; but the dark parts of 

 the bill are more red and less black. Total length IG inches, 

 wing ()-7, tail 7"1, tarsus 1-5. 



IJab. S.W. Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Beuguela. J. Mouteiro [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 d-d. cJ $ ad. .sk. Galungo, Loanda, Aug., Oct. SheUey Coll. 



{&da). 

 «-<!• 6 ? ^^- sk- Galungo, Loauda, Aug., Sharpe Coll. 



Sept., Oct. {Sula). 



