29. CORETHKTTltA. 117 



West-Afr. p. 241 (1857: Ashantee, Ajjuapim, Gaboon, Cape 



Lopez); Biittih. Notes Lei/d. Mus. x. p. 102 ("1888: Liberia), xi. 



pp. 128, 137 (188r>); Sharpe, in Jameson^ s ' Hear Co/wn/i,' p. 411 



(1800 : Aruwliimi Hiver). 

 Corethrura cinnamoinea. Hartl. Orn. West-Afr. p. 242 (1857) ; 



Sharpe, Joiirn. Linn. Soc, Znol. xvii. p. 441 (1884 : Niam-niam) ; 



Shelley, P. A. 8. 1888, p. 40 (Tinjrasi). 

 Corethrura dimidiata, pt., Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 508 (1856). 



Adult male. General colour above black, with ovate spots of 

 white; the winfr-coverts like the back; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills blackish brown, with very few spots of white, 

 the primaries with a single spot near the end of the outer web, the 

 secondaries more spotted, and the innermost ones showing twin- 

 spots like the feathers of the back; lower back and rump rather 

 browner, and spotted with white ; upper taU-coverts and tail deep 

 chestnut ; head all round, neck and mantle, throat and breast 

 bright chestnut ; rest of under surface of body black, spotted with 

 white, less distinctly on the thighs and flanks ; under wing-coverts 

 dusky blackish, with white edges to the feathers, and a few white 

 spots; quills dusky blackish below: "bUl greyish green; feet 

 reddish brown ; iris red " {J. Biiltil-ofer). Total length o*o inches, 

 culmen 0-(35, wing 3-15, tail 1"6, tarsus 1-1, middle toe and claw 

 1-15. 



Adult female. General colour above black, transversely barred 

 with narrow lines of ochreous buff; all the wing-coverts and inner- 

 most secondaries black barred with ochre like the back ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky blackish, with a few 

 ochreous spots on the outer web ; upper tail-coverts and tail dark 

 chestnut, barred across with black ; head and neck all round, mantle 

 and sides of neck, throat and breast, rich chestnut ; remainder of 

 under surface dusky blackish, barred across with dull ochre ; the 

 sides of the body black, with ochreous bars ; under wing-coverts 

 dusky blackish, with obsolete ochreous margins ; quills below 

 uniform dusky blackish. Total length 7 inches, culmen 0"6, wing 

 3'1, tail 1"7">, tarsus 1*2, middle toe and claw 1-15. 



Toum/. Diifers from tlie adult female in being browner and in 

 having the head and neck reddish brown, ^vith a few dusky bars ; 

 throat whitish ; the breast dull reddish brown, with dusky bars ; 

 sides of the body barred with rufous and black as strongly as in the 

 adult fomnle. 



Hah. West Africa, from Senegarabia to Gaboon and the Upper 

 Congo, east to the Monbuttu Country. 



a. [cfjad.sk. West Africa. Old Coll. (Type of 



species.) 



b-e. [ ? 1 ftd. sk. AVest Africa. Purchased. 



f. Juv. SK. Sonegaiubia. Governor Rendall [P.]. 



fl- [ 2 ] ad. sk. Fantee. Shaqic Coll. 



'h, I. [c? ] ad. ; k. Fantee (//. T. Us.<her). SheUev CoU. 



[$lad. sk. 



/, m. [cJ ] ad. ak. Wasa, March, July (Blissett). Shelley Coll. 



