230 HELIOENITHIL^. 



1. Podica senegalensis. 



Heliomis senegalensis, Vieill. iV. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 277 

 (1817) ; id. Gal. Ois. ii. pi. 280 (1825) ; Schl 3Ius. Pays-Bos, Uri- 

 natores, p. 49 (1867 : Senegal ; Gold Coast). 



Podica senegalensis, Less. Traite, p. 596 (18.31) ; Gray, Gen. B. iii. 

 p. 634, pi.' 173 (1844) ; id. List Gralla Brit. Mus. p. 124 (1844) ; 

 Reichenb. Handb., Fidic. tab. cxiv. ligs. 1141-42 (1850) ; Hartl. 

 Orn. Westafr. p. 249 (1857 : Ashantee ; Cape Palmas), p. 275 

 (Muni R.) ; Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 175 (Camma R.) ; 

 Kartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 273 ; Shmye, Ibis, 1870, p. 488 (Fantee) ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 69, no, 10526 (1871) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 

 1871, p. 614 (Cameroons) ; Beichen. J. f. 0. 1874, p. 375 (Gold 

 Coast) ; Sharpe Sf Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 314 (1876 : 

 R. Louemba, Congo) ; Beichen. J. f. 0. 1877, p. 12 (Loango 

 Coast) ; Bocage, Orn. Anyola, p. 487 (1881) ; Oustalet, N. Arch. 

 Mus. (2) ii. Bull. p. 145 (1879 : Gaboon) ; Biittik. Notes Leyden 

 3fus. viii. p. 267 (1886 : Liberia), x. p. 103 (1888), xi. pp. 128, 

 137 (1889); Beichen. J.f. O. 1890, p. 108 (Cameroons). 



Rbigelura senegalensis, Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1229. 



Podoa senegalensis, Bp. Consj). ii. p. 182 (1855). 



Podoa josepbina, i)^j. Consp. ii. p. 182 (1855). 



Podoa pucberani, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 994 (1856). 



Podica sp., Heuyl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. Abth. i. p. 1249 (1871). 



Podica josepbina, Gray, Hand-l. B. iii. p. 69, no. 10527 (1871). 



Adult. General colour above dark brown, with a greenish-black 

 gloss on the feathers of the mantle, back, and scapulars, these parts 

 being spangled with rounded ochreous spots, each spot surrounded 

 by greenish black ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts uniform 

 brown ; wing-coverts brown like the back, but the spots rather 

 whiter ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills uniform dark 

 brown ; iipper tail-coverts brown like the back, but spotted with 

 white ; tail-feathers black with a greyish gloss, the shafts brown, 

 the tips of the feathers narrowly edged with fulvous ; crown of head 

 and hind neck blackish with a greenish gloss ; lores ashy ; feathers 

 round the eye and sides of face, sides of neck, and entire throat 

 ashy grey, more or less mottled with streaks of triangular spots of 

 white ; from behind the eye a distinct line of white traversing the 

 whole of the sides of the neck, a second broader band of white from 

 below the eye along the lower sides of the neck, this band not so 

 distinct as it is mottled with spots of ashy grey; remainder of 

 under surface of body white with a slight fulvous tinge, the fore 

 neck slightly mottled with black, the sides of the body more dis- 

 tinctly mottled with bars of black and yellowish white, these bars 

 less distinct on the flanks and under tail-coverts ; imder wing- 

 coverts and axillaries dusky blackish, with regular bars of black and 

 white : " bill coral-red, the culmen black ; feet coral-red ; iris pale 

 brown " (J. Biittikofer). Total length 21 inches, culmen 2, 

 wing 7*8, tail 6-8, tarsus 1-45, middle toe and claw 2-3. 



Female. Smaller than the male ; the mantle with a few rounded 

 buff spots, which are posteriorly margined with black ; throat white 

 (^Hartlaub). 



