30. NTGRITA. 315 



Key to the Sj^ecies. 



a. Belly black or dark iron-grey. 

 a'. Forehead black ; belly black. 



a". Hump greyish white; wing-coverts and secon- 

 daries spotted with white canicajnlla, p. 315. 



/;". Rump grey, only slightly paler than the 



back ; no white spots on secondaries .... emili(e, p. 316. 



b' . Forehead ochreous ; belly black luteifrons, p. 317. 



c'. Forehead ochreous ; belly grey luciejii, p. 317. 



b. Belly chestnut like the forehead and sides of face ; 



back iron-grey bicolor, p. 318. 



c. Belly white. 



d'. Rump like the back pinaronota, p. 318. 



e'. Rump ochreous, contrasting with back uropygialis, p. 319. 



Head of Nigrita canicapilla. 



1. Nigrita canicapilla. 



iEthiops canicapilla, Strickl. P. Z. S. 1841, p. 30. 



Nigrita canicapilla, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 145; id. Zool. Tijp. 



pi. 48 (1849) ; Grmj, Gen. B. ii. p. 354 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 444(1850); Hctrtl. Oni. W.-Afr. pp. 130, 273(1857); Cas.s. 



Proc. Philad. Acad. 1857, p. 37, 1859, p. 135 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. ii. p. 46, no. 6648 (1870); 8harpe, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 133; id. 



Sj- Bouv. Bidl. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 48 (1870) ; Boeaqe, Orn. 



Am/ohi, p. 322 (1877-81^ ; Shellei/, Ibis, 1886, p. 306 ; lieichen. 



J.f. O. 1887, p. 307. 

 Niorita cinereieapilla (laps, cal.), S/uape, Ibis, 1809, p. 385 ; Reichen. 



J-./. 0.1877, p. 28. 



Adult male. General colour above dark slaty grey, brighter on tho 

 rump, which is pearly grey ; wings black, spotted with white at the 

 ends of the feathers, the spots on the greater coverts and inner 

 secondaries being larger : bastard-wing, x^rimary-coverts, and quills 

 entirely black ; upper tail-coverts ashy grey, washed with pearly 

 grey ; tail-feathers black, with a narrow fringe of ashy grey at the 

 end of the outer ones ; crown of head dark slaty grey like the back, 

 the forehead black, as well as the lores and a broad eyebrow, sides 

 of face, ear-coverts, and sides of neck ; the black separated from the 

 grey of the upper parts by a narrow hne of hoary whitish which 

 skirts the black forehead along the sides of the crown and along the 

 sides of the neck ; entire under surface of body black, the sides of 

 body and flanks dark slaty grey : thighs and under tail-coverts 

 black ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white, the edge of the 

 wing black ; quills below dusky blackish, ashy along the inner edge. 

 Total length 5-4 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-75, tail 1*9, tarsus Q-?. 



