62 CTTRS0RTID.5:. 



t>\ Ad. sk. Cape York. Seebohm Coll. 



w 3 , x 3 . Imm. sk. Cape York (/. T. Cockerel!). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



y\ Ad. sk. Cape York (J. T. Cocker ell). Tweeddale Coll. 



z 3 , a\ Skeletons. Java. Purchased. 



8. GALACTOCHRYSEA. Type 



Galachrysia, Bp. C. R. xliii. p. 419 (1856) G. lactea. 



Galactochrysea, Heine 8f Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 



p. 338 (nom. emend., 1890) G. lactea. 



Range. Africa and the Indian Peninsula. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Axillaries chestnut like the breast ; a white mark 



under the eye and another behind it ; legs black. . ocularis, p. 62. 



b. Axillaries slaty grey or ashy brown like the sides of 



the body ; feet yellow in skin, red in life. 



a'. Hind neck with a rufous collar liberies, p. G3. 



b'. Hind neck with a white collar. 



a". No white on outer base of secondaries emini, p. 64. 



b". Outer edge of base of secondaries white' .... nuchalis, p. 64. 



c. Axillaries white ; feet yellow in skin ; hind neck 



with a pale rufous collar ; a black patch on ear- 

 coverts ; back ashy grey cinerea, p. 64. 



d. Axillaries black; feet black; back ashy grey; no 



collar on hind neck lactea, p. 65. 



1. Galactochrysea ocularis. 



Glareola ocularis, Terr. S. Afr. Q. Journ. ii. p. 80 (1833) ; Hartl. 

 Faun. Madag. p. 71 (1861) ; Grandid. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1867, 



Hist. Nat. Madag., Ois. p. 645, pis. cclvi.-eclviii. (1882) ; Seebohm, 

 Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 260 (1888) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 304 

 (Lamu) ; Sibree, Ibis, 1892, p. 115. 



Glareola geoft'royi, Pucker. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 51 ; id. Mag. de Zool. 

 1845, pi. lvii. ; Reichenb. Syn. Av., Gall. Taf. 291. tig. 1626 

 (1848); Rock fy E. Newton, Ibis, 1863, p. 169; E. Newton, t.c. 

 p. 455. 



Glareola nordmanni (nee Fischer), Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 332 (Zambesi). 



Adult male. General colour above brown with a slight olive 

 gloss, the wing-coverts and inner secondaries like the back ; outer 

 coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish brown, 

 with a narrow whitish fringe at the end of the secondaries and 

 greater coverts ; rump rather darker than the rest of the back ; 

 upper tail-coverts white, forming a broad white band ; tail-feathers 

 black, with a good deal of white on the basal half of the feathers, 

 increasing in extent towards the outermost, which is white with a 

 broad band of black at the end, the middle tail-feathers tipped with 



