21. PTREHULAITDA. 651 



Key to tlie Species. 



a. No white ear-coverts, the sides of the face being 



black lilie the crown and nnder surface of 



body australls, p. 651. 



b. Ear-coverts white. 



a . With no blacli on the crown, Avhich is hoarj- 



whitish or ashy, with a broad black streak 



along the sides of the crown r/risca, p. 6o2. 



h'. Crown black. 



a". With no chestnut on the upper surface, 



which is ashy brown or blackish 



a'". Crown black with a white forehead . . melanauchen, p. 655. 



//". Crown black with the forehead black, 



but a whitish patch on the occiput, . , . vevticalis, p. 656. 



b". Back chestnut: rump and upper tail- , , ,• „r^ 



coverts grey or hoarv whitish . ^^"^f '.f' P" ^' ' 



° ■' - I snuthii, p. 608. 



1. Pyrrhulauda australis. 



Megalotis australis, Smith, Rep. Eajicd. C. Afr., App. p. 49 (18-36). 

 Pyrrhulauda australis, Smith *, ///. Zool. S. Afr., Aves, pi. 24 (18-39) ; 



Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 381 (1844); Bp. C'onsp. i. p. 511 (18-50); 



Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 210 (1867) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 123, 



no. 7830 (1870) ; Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 258 ; Gurney in Anderss. 



B. Barn. Ld. p. 191 (1872) ; Sharpe, ed. LaycmVs B. S. Afr. 



p. 493 (1884). 

 Pyrrhulauda melanosoma, Swains. Ckissif B. ii. p. 294 (1837). 



Adult male. General colour above brown, more or leas mottled 

 with blackish bases to the feathers ; wing-coverts and quills black, 



(3. Pyrrhulauda mode.sta. 

 Pyrrhulauda modesta, Finsch, J. f. 0. 1864, p. 412. 

 Described from a female specimen said to have come from the Canary 

 Islands. 



7. PyRRUULAUDA LEUCOPAR/EA. 



Coraphites leuco]Dar£ea, Fischer cf- Reichcii. J. /'. 0. 1884, p. 55 ; Fischer, 

 Zeitschr. qes. Oni. i. p. 318 (1884); id. -7. f. 0. 1885, p. 137; Reichcn. 

 J.f. 0. 1887, p. 73. 

 Hab. East Africa. 



The authors do not give a liint as to the nearest ally of this species. It may 

 probably be the winter plumage cf P. s/nithii, but I cannot determine this 

 without seeing a sj)ecimen. 



S. Pyrrhulauda signata. 

 Pyrrhulauda signata, Oust. Bibl. Imut. Etudes, xxsi. art. x. p. fl. 

 Hab. Somali-Land. 



This species I think will ultimately prove to be founded on one of the 

 plumages of P. leucotis. 



* Swainson's ' Classification ' is supposed to have been publislied in 1S37, but 

 he there quotes " Pyrrlmluuda, Smith." I cannot find any mention of tliis 

 genus before Smith's ' Ilhistrations,' and Mr. Waterhouse gives the date of the 

 ()tb part of tliis work as 183'J. Smith himself speaks of his having proposed 

 Pyrrhulauda as a genus in 1829, but I have not found any published account 

 of it. 



