10. SCOTOENIS. 



597 



Scortornis finschii, Gray^ Hand-l. i. p. 60 (1869). 



Scotornis phasiauurus, S. fiu'catus, S. boreanii, S. macrocercus, 



S. longipennis, Paul v. Wiirtt. MS..Jide Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 



i. p. 133 (1874). 



Adult maJe. Ground colour of a kind of light ferruginous brown, 

 sometimes more greyish, sandy or rufescent, and varied with brown 

 or blackish freckles ; along the toij of the head the usual longi- 

 tudinal blackish spots ; scapulars with blackish centres and broad 

 buff, creamy, or orange-buff borders ; wing-coverts with larger and 

 smaller terminal sj)ots of cream-colour or almost white, forming 

 a distinct bar across the upper part of the wing ; primaries deep 

 brownish black, crossed by a broad band of white, but the first 

 primary and sometimes the second with the white restricted to the 

 inner web ; secondaries brownish black, varied witli light rufous 

 and tipped with white ; central rectrices greatly elongated and of 

 the colour of the upper parts, with numerous more or less distinct 

 dark bars ; lateral tail-feather shortest, outer web and tip white, 

 second pair with white tips only ; narrow rictal stripe and large 

 spot on the throat white or whitish ; breast variegated ; abdomen 

 light fulvous buff, more or less barred with dark brown ; lower 

 abdomen and under taU-coverts uniform. Total length about 14*5 

 inches, wing 5-8, lateral rectrices 4*3, central 11-3, tarsus 0'7, 

 feathered in front for its upper half. 



Adult female. Central rectrices much less elongated, measuring 

 about 7 inches ; outer webs of lateral rectrices not pure white, and 

 the spots on the primaries shaded with ferruginous. 



Young. Seems to be similar to the female. 



This species varies much in the depth of colours. 



Hah. From Nubia throughout the Soudan, across the continent 

 to Senegambia, and throughout Western Africa about as far south 

 as the Equator. 



a. S ^d. St. 

 b-d. S ad. sk. 

 e,f. (S ad. sk. 

 g, h. (5 ad. sk. 

 i. c? ad. ; k. c? 



imm. sk. 

 I. c? ad. sk. 



m. (S ad. sk. 

 n. (S ad. sk. 

 0. <S ad. sk. 

 p-x. (S ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 y, z. c? ad. sk. 

 a'. cS ad. sk. 



b'-e'. c? ad. sk. 

 f,g',h'. S ad. 

 et imm. sk. 

 i'. 2 ad. sk. 

 k'. (S ad. sk. 

 I', c? imm. sk. 



W. Africa. 



W. Afi-ica. 



W. Africa. 



Khartoum {U. Marno). 



E. Africa. 



Ndoruma,Niam-uiam Country, 



Nov. 

 W. Afi'ica. 

 Dakar, Senegal. 

 R. Gambia. 

 Accra, Feb., March, May 



{Buckley). 

 Accra (Smith). 

 Int. of Fantee. 



Fantee ( Ussher Sf Blissett). 

 Cape Coast ( Ussher ^- Blis- 

 sett). 

 Ashanti. 

 Ogowe K. 

 Gaboon ( Verreaux). 



Purchased. 

 Gould CoU. 

 Sharps CoU. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



F. Bohndorff. Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Piurchased. 

 M. A. Bouvier [P.]. 

 Sharpe CoU. 

 Shelley CoU. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 J. Hickman, 



[P.]. 

 Sharpe CoU. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Esq. 



Gould CoU. 



M. A. Bouvier [P.]. 



Sharpe Coll. 



