'21. PYKRHULAITDA. g5~ 



!/, J. S;i.2 ad. Otjimbiuque Damam-Laud, Sharpe Coll. 



7. / • , , Dec.,Feb. (C. J..4/,f/m-.swji. ^ 



S I. d ad. «k. Ondonga, Ovampo-Land, Nov. Sharps Coll. 

 (C. J. A.). 



o. Pyrrhulauda leucotis. 



Loxia leucotis, 6-funl in SaW, Trav. Aby,.s., App. p. Ix ri814) 

 Alauda melanocepliala, Lkht. Verz. Doubl. p. 2« (18-'l)^ ^' 

 Friugma otoleucus, Temm. PI. Col. iii. pi. 0^9. g ^3 3 ^"^g.^ - 

 Megalotis otoleucus, .Se.«m. Zool. Jouru. iii. p. 347 (18% ^' 



ore/z. ^. 11. p. .j81 (1844) ; Rujip. Syst. fJeders. p. 79 (1845 ) • Bn 

 CojPyi". 1. p. oil (1850) ; .Scl. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. ut^AeuS 



^« l»b(J, p 247; ^«<m. C«#. c^e^ocr;-. f^cc. p. 75 (IBiSivJlaJ 



7?" J i^^^'^i -SW/m^. ^«„. j/„,. (,'enoy. (2) i. p. 171 (1884?' 



?. p. -51^ 'iSo) ' ''^'- ^'^Pt'^^trionalis, *'««^., teste Bp. Consp. Ao. 

 Coraphites leucotis, C«6. ilfwA'. ^ej« i p 191 n««;n^ w ; ^ 

 p.4bb(i8,0); Oust. Faun, et Flor. Comalis, Ois.,v. 11 (1882)- 



5:f5//p."o S,.^- ^'^^ """• ^'"« *-• ^'«*' *'• *<: 



Coraphites melanocepliala, LicJit. Nomend. At: p. 39 (1854). 

 Achdt male General colom ahove deep chestnut; the scapulars 



covets pearly grey; lesser wing-coverts whitish ; the median and 

 gieater coverts chestnut, with broad buffy-white edges, the former 

 eries black at the base, forming a broad black band"; bastard wTn J 

 and pnmary-coyerts black, edged with white near the end of the 

 outer web : qui Is black edged with rufous, very broadly on the inner 

 secondanes, which are fringed with whitish at the ends ; centre tal 

 teathers black edged with rufous and ashy at the ends; the remainder 

 black with rufous margins, the outer feather white along the external 

 web; crown of head, occiput, and nape black: hind neck with a 

 white colar succeeded by a black coUar across the top of the mantle 

 joining the black of the under surface ; lores, feathers round the eye 

 and fore part ot cheeks black ; sides efface, ear-coverts, and cheeks' 

 ^\hlte, separated from the white collar on the hind neck by a line of 

 back which extends from the crown to the throat ; throat and under 

 surface of body black ; the sides of the breast ashy brown and having 



whitish, with black centres to some of the feathers; thighs white- 

 under ail-coverts black as also the under wing-coverts and axillaries • 

 qmlls below dusky, isabelhue along the inner edge. Total leno-th 

 4-0 inches, culmeu 0-4, wing 3, tail 1-7, tarsus 0-55. 



M female. Differs from the male in wanting the black on the 

 head L pper surface chestnut ; the head like the back and separated 

 from the latter by a collar of creamy buff like the sides of thl neck 



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