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euds are black, but there are no pure white secondaries, the inner- 

 most being brown like the back ; sides of rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 and base of tail pure white ; the terminal half of the tail black, 

 forming a very broad band, shaded above and below with light 

 brown, the tips of the feathers white, forming a well-marked ter- 

 minal bar ; forehead and centre of fore part of crown white, followed 

 by a shade of uniform dark brown, which extends from above the 

 lores and across the centre of the crown ; rest of the crown and 

 nape ashy brown, streaked with dusky brown ; lores, sides of face, 

 ear-coverts, cheeks, and throat ashy white, streaked with dusky 

 brown ; in the centre of the throat a longitudinal black patch ; 

 fore-neck and breast drab-brown, extending down the thinks ; lower 

 abdomen, under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, and axillaries pure 

 white ; quill-lining black : " bill yellow, the dertrum blackish ; feet 

 yellow ; loral membrane elevated beyond the forehead, thence pen- 

 dulous, and ending in a point, above cinnabar-red, below yellow, 

 like the bare eyelids ; iris pearly white " {Heuglin). Total length 

 12 - 5 inches, culmen T4, wing 9*2, tail 4 - 2, tarsus 6-2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in colour. Total length 12 

 inches, culmen 1*5, wing 9*1, tail 3"9, tarsus 3-2. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having the head brown with 

 dusky streaks, but no white frontal patch, the black on the throat 

 wanting, this part being white with dusky-blackish streaks. 



Hah. West Africa : Senegambia, Accra, the Niger, and Gaboon. 

 X.E. Africa, from Kordot'an and Bogos-land south to the Victoria 

 Nyanza. 



a. Ad. st. 

 6. Ad. sk. 



c. Ad. sk. 



d. Ad. sk. 



e. $ ad. sk. 



/. $ ad. sk. 



g. Ad. sk. 

 h. 2 ad. sk. 



•'. $ ad. sk. 

 *. 2 ad. sk. 



I, tn. $ $ ad. sk. 



n. 2 ad. sk. 



o. 3 ad. ; 

 p. 2 juv.sk. 



Senegambia. 

 Senegambia. 

 Bathurst, R. Gambia (Sir 



A. Moloney). 

 Dakar, Senegal, Jan. {L. 



Laglaize). 

 Accra, (J old Coast, May 



(J. Smith ). 

 Accra, Gold Coast, May 



(J. Smith). 

 Lokoja, R. Niger. 

 Kutschugali, Niam Niam 



Country. 

 Cialalaka, Shoa, June 13. 

 Dongolo, Abyssinia, May 



17. 

 Bo^os-land, Aug. 6 ( W. 



Jesse). 

 Kokai, Bogos-land, Aug. 



10 ( IV. Jesse). 

 [Nubia.] 



Governor Rendall [P.]. 

 Governor Rendall [P.J. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Seebohm Coll. 



Major Ewart [P.], 

 F. BohndorffLCj. 



Turin Museum [P.]. 

 "\\ . T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.J. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



Seebobm Coll. 



