60. HISTTTRGOPS. 



505 



The changes of plumage are apparently similar to those of the 

 allied species, but 1 have not yet seen a properly ideiitifietl female 

 of A. capifnlba. 



In the younr/ bird, according to Dr. A. Reichenow, the iris is 

 brown, feet greyish brown; upper mandible horn-colour, the lower 

 mandible dusky yellow. 



Hah. West Africa from the Gold Coast to the Congo. 



a. c? ad. sk. 

 h. S ficl. sk. 

 c, d. S 2 i^d. sk. 

 e. $ ad. sk. 



/, ri. S ad. sk. 

 /*. $ ad. sk. 



Gold Coast. 

 Fantee (U-s.^her). 

 Denkera (//. T. Ussher). 

 Coinniendah, Elniiua, June 



1872 {H. F. Blissett). 

 Accra. 

 Abeokuta. 



Purchased. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Sharps Coll. 

 Shai-pe CoU. 



Sharpe Coll. 



F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. 



GO. HISTURGOPS. 



Ilisturgops, Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 67 . . 



Type. 

 II. ruficauda. 



Head of Histurffops ruficavda. 

 Range. Interior of East Africa. 



1. Histurgops ruficauda. 

 Histurgops ruficauda, Reichen. J.f. 0. 1887, p. 67. 



Adult male. General colour above brown, with dull wliity-brown 

 edges to the feathers, producing a somewhat sealed appearance ; 

 rump washed with cinnamon-rufous ; lesser wiug-coverts like the 

 back ; median and greater coverts darker brown, with whity-brown 

 margins, slightly tinged with rufous ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills dark brown, with pale cinnamon-rufous edges, whiter ou 

 the inner secondaries ; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers cinna- 

 mon-rufous with black shafts, the centre feathers dark brown with 

 rufous edges ; crown of head like the back, the edg'es to the feathers 

 a little more ashy ; lores and feathers below the eye dusk}- blackish ; 

 ear-covcrts and cheeks ashy brown, streaked with dusky centres to 

 the feathers ; throat white, the sides ashy, with broad black centres ; 

 remainder of under surface of body ashy whitish, mottled with dark 

 brown centres to the feathers : abdomen isabelliue ; sides of body 

 and flanks like the breast ; thighs isabelline ; under tail-coverts pale 

 isabelline, with chestnut centres to the feathers ; under wing-coverts 



