156 CHARADRIIDJ2. 



a. 2 a d. sk. Hamilton Plains, Tasmania, Hume Coll. 



April. 



b. c? ad. sk. South Australia. Sir George Grey [P.]. 



c. Juv. sk. South Australia. Gould Coll. 



d. e. Ad. sk. Queensland. Tweeddale Coll. 

 f,ff. Ad.sk. Queensland (J". T. Cockerel!). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 h. Pull. sk. Bred in captivity. Lord Lilford [P.]. 



16. ANOMALOPHRYS. 



Range. Western Africa, east to Lake Tanganyika. 



1. Anomalophrys super ciliosus. 



Lobivanellus superciliosus, Reichen. J. f. O. 1886, p. 116, pi. hi. 

 fig. 2, imm. (Marungu) ; Matschie, J. f. 0. 1887, p. 136 (Karema), 

 p. 144 (Marungu); Reichen. J. f. O. 1890, p. 107 (Cameroons) ; 

 Shelley, Ibis, 1890, p. 109 ; Sharpe in Jameson's Story of the Rear 

 Column, App. p. 405 (1890: Stanley Pool); Reichen. J. f. O. 

 1891, p. 372 (Togo-land). 



Sarciophorus superciliosus, Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 418 (Rio del Key). 



Adult male. General colour above dark olive -brown ; the lesser 

 and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts light ashy 

 brown, white at the ends, forming a broad wing-band ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, the primaries white at the 

 extreme base ; secondaries white, with an oblique black mark at the 

 end, forming a band which increases in breadth towards the 

 primaries, the outer ones being black with white bases, the inner- 

 most secondaries olive-brown like the back, the proximal ones 

 white, ashy brown on the inner web ; upper tail-coverts and basal 

 two-thirds of tail white, with a broad black band at the end 

 increasing in width towards the outer feathers, which are tipped 

 with white, the external one entirely white with a black sub-terminal 

 spot on the inner web ; crown of head black as well as the nape ; 

 lores and forehead pale rufous ; sides of face, ear-coverts, and sides 

 of neck grey, this colour extending round the hind-neck ; throat 

 also grey, whiter in the centre ; the fore-neck dark maroon, forming 

 a collar ; remainder of under surface, from the fore-neck down- 

 wards, pure white, including the under wing-coverts and axillaries : 

 "iris yellow" (Biittner). Total kngth 10-5 inches, culmen 0-85, 

 wing 7 - 6, tail 3-1, tarsus 2-1. 



Young. Differs from the adult in having the feathers of the 

 upper surface margined with rusty, the cap only dusky brown, with 

 a broad frontal band ; a broad eyebrow, as well as the lores, 

 rust-coloured, the patch on the fore-neck much smaller and of a 

 rusty colour instead of maroon : " bill black, the base slightly 

 reddish ; eye-ring and loral lappet dusky j ellow ; feet dull rose- 

 red ; iris clear brown " (li. Bohm). 



Hab. West Africa, from Togo-land to the Congo, and east to Lake 

 Tanganyika. 



a, b. rj ad. sk. Rio del Rev, Cameroons. II. H. Johnston, Esq., 



C.B. [P.]. 

 c. 2 i uv> s k- Stanley Pool, R. Congo (J. Mrs. J. S. Jameson 



S. Jameson). [P.]. 



