6. 8AIICIOPHOKU9. 129 



p. 118 (1845 : Nubia) ; Strickl. P. Z. -S'. 1850, p. 221 (Kordofan); 

 Licht. Nomencl. Ao. Mm. lierol. p. 95 (1854 : Senegal; Nubia); 

 Sp. C. R. xliii. p. 418 (1856); Harti. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 215 (1857: 

 Senegal; Casamance); Antin. Cat. descr. Ucc. p. 97 (1864: Kor- 

 dofan) ; Finsch, Trans. Z. S. vii. p. 296 (1870: Koomayli; Ailat). 



Hoplopterus tectus, Gfray,Gen. B. iii. p. 542 i L847) ; id. Hand-IB. iii. 

 p. 13, no. 9975 (187 i) ; Keugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. pt. 1, p. 1008 

 (1873 : Takah ; Southern Nubia ; not rare on Abyssinian coast-land 

 and the islands of the Hahlak Aivhip. ; on the lower Mareb and 

 Takazie ; Bogos; Qalabat ; Senaar; Kordofan; south to Sobat 

 River); Marti. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, viii. p. 231 (1883: 

 Equatorial Africa). 



Hoplopterus pileatus, Reichenb. Handb. Grail, tab. xcix. fig. 702 

 (1848). 



Sarkiophorus pileatus, Heugl. Syst. Uebers. p. 55 (1856: Nubia; 

 Kordofan; Senaar). 



Lobivanellus pileatus, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 65 (1865 : 

 Senegal; Nubia). 



Sarciophorus tectus, Blnnf. Geol. fy Zool. Abyss, p. 430 (1870 : 

 Anseba Valley); Antin. Sf Salvad. Viagy. Bogos, p. 144(1873: 

 Keren; Samhar; Barka) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 602(1882 : 

 Kordofan 1 ; Heine \ Beichen. Nomencl. Mus. Ileal, p. 335 (1890 : 

 Senaar ; Abyssinia). 



Chettusia (Sarciophorus) pileata, Finsch, Proc. Acad. Philad. 1872, 

 p. 32. 



Lobivanellus tectus, Seebohm, Geoff r. Distr. Charadr. p. 19< (1888). 



Adult male. General colour above light brown, somewhat sandy 

 in tint, the lower back rather more dusky brown ; wing-coverts 

 like the back, the median series with narrow white ends, the 

 greater coverts broadly tipped with white, forming a broad wing- 

 bar ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts white ; quills black, both 

 primaries and secondaries with white bases, the secondaries for the 

 most part white with black ends, but none of them entirely white ; 

 the innermost secondaries light brown like the back ; rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and tail white, the latter with a broad terminal band of 

 black, decreasing in width on the outer feathers, which have a 

 narrow white tip; crown of head black, extending in a narrower 

 band down the hind-neck to the mantle ; a narrow frontal line of 

 white; lores black; fore part of cheeks and chin white; ear-coverts 

 and -ides of neck black, with a broad band of white above the 

 ear-coverts; throat black, narrowing into a band of black feathers 

 which extends on to the chest ; sides of fore-neck and remainder of 

 Dnder surface of body white, including the under wing-coverts and 

 axillaries; sides of upper breast light brown: " loral membrane 

 small, rounded in front, crimson ; bill rosy-scarlet, with a broad 

 black tip ; feet bright rosy-crimson ; iris bright yellow " (//. uglin |. 

 Total length 10 inches, eulmen 1-05, wing 7 - 4o, tail 3"6, tarsus 2-3. 

 Adult female. Similar to the male in plumage. Total length 10 

 inches, eulmen 1. wing 7"5, tail 3*5, tarsus 2-3. 



Bab. Ftanegambia ; N.E.Africa from Taka and Southern Nubia 

 to the Sobat t&ivex and Shoa. 



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