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Galachrysia cinerea, Bp. C. K. xliii. p. 41!) (1856). 

 Glareola (Galachrysea) cinerea, Hartert, J. f. O. 1886, p. 610 

 (R. Niger). 



Adult. Similar to G. lactea, but paler and more of a pearly grey, 

 and differing in the cinnamon-rufous collar on the hind-neck and 

 sides of neck, the while eyebrow, white cheeks and sides of face, 

 with a line of black crossing the ear-coverts to the sides of the 

 throat ; it has also white axillaries and a yellow base to the bill. 

 Total length 0-5 inches, oilmen Oo, wing 5-6, tail 2*1, tarsus - 85. 



1 1 ah. West Africa, from the Niger to the Congo. 



a, b. Ad. sk. River Niger (Z. Fraser). Capt. Allen [P.]. 



(Types of species.) 

 <■,'/. Juv.sk. River Niger (Z. Fraser). Eyton Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. River Higer. Dr. Baikie [C.]. 



f. Ad. sk. River Niger (Dr. Baikie). Tweeddale Coll. 



>/. Ad. sk. Ogowe River. II. T. Ansell, Esq. 



[P.. 

 h. Skeleton. Gaboon. Purchased. 



6. Galactochrysea lactea. 



Glareola lactea, Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 503 (1820) ; id. VI. Vul. v. 

 pi. 399 (1826) ; Gray, List Grail,,- Brit. Mus. p. 02 (1844) ; id. Gen. 

 B. iii. p. 538 (1844) ; B/i/th, Cat. B. Mas. As. Sue. p. 259 (1849 : 

 Calcutta); Jcrd. B. Ind. iii. p. 032 (1804); Schl. Mus. Pays-Bos, 

 Cursores, p. 17 (1805) ; Gould, B. Asia, vii. pi. 64 (18010 : Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. iii. p. 18, no. 10033 (1871); Hume, Str. F. i. p. 440 

 (1873); id. Nests S( Eyys, p. 568 (1873) ; Ball, Str. F. ii. p. 429 

 (1874) : Ilarting, P. Z. S. 1874, pi. 00. fig. 1 (egg) ; Hume, Mr. F. 

 iii. p. 179 (1875); Blyth $ II aid. B. Burnt, p. 154 (L->75i ; 

 Armstr. Str. F. iv. p. 338 (1876); Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 469; 

 Hume §■ Darison, Str. F. vi. p. 454 (1878) ; Davidson §■ Wenden, 

 Str. F. vii. p. 88 ( 1878) : Bui', t. c p. 226; Cripps, t. c. p. 299; 

 Hume, t.c. p. 482 ; Butler, Cat. />'. S. Bomb. Pies. p. 72 (1880); 

 Oates.Haudb. B. Barm. ii. p. 363(1883) : Hume, Sb: F. xi. p. 312 

 (1888); Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr. p. 264 £888); Oates, 

 ed. Hume's Nests >Y Eggs, iii. p. 320 (1890) : Barnes, Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. Hist. Soc. iii. p. 205, iv. pp. 2, 83, 237. v. pp. 1. '.»7. 315, vi. 

 pp. 1 . 29. 



Glareola orientalis (nee Leach), Jerd. Madr. Journ. xii. p. 215 

 (1840). 



Glareola nipalensis vel cinerascens, Hodgs. Icon, hied, in Brit. Mas , 

 QraUce, pi. tfi (no. 658) ; id. in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 86 (18-14). 



Glareola grangetica, Hodgs. Icon. ined. in Brit. Mus., GralUe, pi. 10 

 (no. 825) ; id. in Grays Zool. Misc. p. 86 1 1844). 



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



< lalactochrysea lactea, Heine §■ Reichen. Nomencl. M us. Hem. p. 338 

 (is: i0). 



Adult male. General colour above light ashy grey ; wing-coverts 

 like the back, tin- greater scries edged with white ; outer wing- 

 coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, mid quills black, with white 

 near the base of the inner web, increasing towards the centre of 

 the wing; the secondaries white, with a black bar at the end, the 



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