232 HELIORNIIHID^. 



altogether. This may be the case also with the West-African 

 species, hut I have not as yet seen a West-African specimen in 

 which the white hands on the sides of the neck were entirely 

 obsolete, I therefore separate P. peiersi for the present, until I 

 have had the opportunity of examining a larger series of P. sene- 

 galensis. 



Hab. S.E. Africa from British Caffraria north to the Zanzibar 

 district in Eastern Africa, and to the Lower Congo in West Africa. 



a. Juv. st. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [0.]. 



b-e. Imm. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



/. 2 ^d. sk. Kingwilliamstown, May 7. Major Trevelyan [C.]. 



ff. (S ad. St. Natal {T. Ayres). J. H. Gumey, Esq. 



h. Imm. sk. Eustenberg, Transvaal {J. S. Shelley CoU. 



Jameson), 

 i. 2 ad. st. Mozambique, Purchased. 



k. Ad. sk. East Africa. Old CoU, 



2. HELIOPAIS. 



Type. 



Podica, pt., auct. recent. 



Heliopais, Shai'pe, Bull. Brit.Orn. C/M6,no. vii.p. xxxvii 



(March 1893) H. personata. 



Bange. The same as that of the single species of the genus. 



1. Heliopais personata. 



Podica personata, Gray, P.Z. S. 1848, p. 90, Aves, pi. 4; Reichenb. 

 Handb., Fulic, Novit. tab. cxiv. figs. 2948-49 (1850) ; i?/j. Consp. 

 ii. p. 182 (1857) ; Blyth, J. A. S. Beny. xxviii. p. 411 (1859 : 

 Moulmein) ; id. Ibis, 1862, p. 91 (Tavoy Pdver) ; Jerd. B. Ind. iil 

 p. 721 ; Gray, Hand-I. B. iii. p. 69, no. 10529 (1871) ; Hume, 

 Sir. F. ii. p. 483 (1874), iii. p. 185 (1875) ; Blyth, B. Burm. p. 162 

 (1875) ; Hume Sf Davismi, Str. F. vi. p. 465 (1878) ; Hume, Str. F. 

 viii. p. 70 (1879: Malacca); Gates, Str. F. x. p. 241 (1882: 

 Eugmah Swamp) ; id. Handb. B, Brit. Biirm. ii. p. 353 (1883 : 

 Karen-nee). 



Podoa personata, Blyth, Ibis, 1859, p. 466. 



Heliomis personata, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Urinatores, p. 49 (1867 : 

 Sumatra). 



Heliopais personata, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, no. vii. p. xxxvii 

 (1893). 



Adult male. General colour above brown with an olive-greenish 

 gloss ; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, 

 and quills dark brown ; lower back and rump brown, the upper 

 tail-coverts slightly lighter brown ; tail-feathers dark brown with 

 narrow whitish tips ; fore part of crown black, extending in a streak 

 on each side of the occiput ; hinder crown and hind neck leaden 

 grey ; feathers round the eye and ear-coverts, sides of face, and 

 entire throat black, ending in a point on the lower throat, separated 

 on the sides of the neck by a narrow line of white ; sides of neck 



