152 



a. Ad. sk. 

 6, c. Ad. et imm. 

 sk. 



d. Ad. sk. 



e. Ad. sk. 

 /. Imm.sk. 



g. Ad. sk. 



h. Ad. sk. 

 i. Ad. sk. 

 li. Ad. sk. 

 /. Ad. sk. 



m. Ad. sk. 

 n. $ ad. sk. 



0. Ad. sk. 

 /?. Ad. sk. 



y. Pull. St. 

 /•. Ad. sk. 

 s. Ad. sk. 

 t, u. 5 ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 V. 5 ad. sk. 

 w. Ad. sk. 

 .T. Ad. sk. 

 y. Ad. sk. 

 z-a' . Ad. sk. 



6'. Ad. sk. 

 c'. Ad. sk. 

 <^', e. (S 2 ad. sk. 



Senegal. 

 Seneo'ambia. 



Riocour Coll. 

 Governor Eendall 



[0.]. 

 Purchased. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Senegambia. 

 Senegambia. 

 Elmina, Gold Coast, April 10 



{H. F. Blissett). 

 Ancobra River. 



Commander Cameron [P.]. 

 Magna Pdver {H. T. Ussher). Shelley Coll. 

 Gaboon. 



Gaboon [Duchailhi). 

 Muschra Ileq., Equatorial 



Africa, March. 

 Benguela. 

 Rio Coroca, Mossamedes, Jan. 



{Anchieta). 



Sir R. Burton and 



Shelley Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 F. Bohndorff [C.]. 



Monteiro Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Cape Colony (Butler). 

 Cape Colony. 



Cape Colony. 

 Natal (T. Ay res). 

 Potchefstroom, Transvaal. 

 Potchefstroom, Sept., Jan. (T. 



Ay res). 

 Umzeila's Country ( W. Ayres). 

 Makalaka Country. 

 Zambesi (Dr. 3IeUer). 

 Zambesi. 

 Mpimbi, Upper Shir6 River, 



Feb. 27 (A. Whyte). 

 Dar-es-salaam {Sir J. Kirh). 

 Pangani River (Sir J. Kirk). 

 Jipi. 



Shelley Coll. 



F. Thackeray, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Sir A. Smith [C.]. 

 Gurney Coll. 

 F. A. Barratt, Esq. 

 Gurney Coll. 



Gurney Coll. 

 Dr. Bradshaw [C.]. 

 Tweeddale CoU. 

 Sir J. Kirk [P.]. 

 H. H. Johnston, Esq.. 



C.B. [P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 F. J. Jackson, Esq. 

 [P.]. 



38. AMAURORNIS. 



Type. 

 Amaurornis, Reichenh. Natiirl. Syst. Voy. p. xxi (1852) A. olivacea. 



Erythra, Reichenh. t. c. p. xxi A. phoenicura. 



Pisynrilimnas, Heine, in Heine ^ Reichen. Nomencl. 



Mus. Hein. p. 317 (1890) A. phoenicura. 



Range. Indian Peninsula and Ceylon to China, and throughout 

 the Indo-Chinese countries to Malacca and the Philippines, thence 

 through the Moluccas to N.E. Australia and New Britain. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No white on forehead or face ; fore-neck and breast 

 grey. 

 a'. Throat grey like the breast (whitish in young 

 birds only) ; vent and under tail-coverts per- 

 ceptibly vinous or chestnut. 

 a". Larger : darker and more olive above ; dark 

 slaty grey below ; reddish colour on iinder 

 tail-coverts not pronounced olivacea, p. 153. 



