22. TIGRORNIS. 



191 



6'-?i*. cJ 9 id. et St. Vincent, Feb., April, IVfay, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



imm. sk. 

 o^. Ad. sk. 

 //'. luim. sk. 



(j*. Irnin. sk. 



r*. S ad. sk. 

 s'. Jiiv. sk. 

 t\ Ad. sk. 



u*-zK Ad. sk. 



rt'. Sternum. 



July, Aug. (D. W. Smith). 

 St. Vincent, Jan. 

 Bequia Island, May 29 {D. W. 



Smith). 

 Mustique Island, June .3 {I). 



W. Smith). 

 St. Lucy, Barbados, June 6. 

 Barbados, June. 

 Barbados. 



Grenada, March to Aujj 



W. Smith). 

 Jamaica. 



(Z>. 



G. Stephen, Esq. [P.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Colonel Feilden [P 

 Colonel Feilden [P. 

 Sir R. Scbomburgk 



[C.]. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll, 



Gosse Coll. 



22. TIGRORNIS. 



Range. Confined to West Africa. 



1. Tigrornis leucolopha. 



Tigrisoma leucolophum, Jardine, Ann. <^ Mag. Nat. Hist. xvii. 



p. 86 (1840: Old Calabar); Bp. Consp. ii. p. 157 (1855); 



Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 225 (1857 : Rio Boutry : Gaboon) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. iii. p. 33, no. 10170 (1871) ; Shaipe Sf Bouvier, Bull. 



Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 313 (1876: R. Louemba, Congo) ; Oust. 



Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) i. p. 107 (1877 : Lambarene, Gaboon) ; 



id. Nouv. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. p. 119 (1879) ; Bocaye, Orn. Anyola, 



p. 449 (1881). 

 Botaurus leucolopbus, Grar/, Gen. B. iii. App. p. 25 (1849) ; Hartl. 



J.f. O. 1854, p. 292; Reichen. J.f. O. 1877, p. 251; Bdttik. 



Notes Leijden Mus. vii. p. 240 (188-)), viii. p. 266 (1886 : Messu- 



rado River, Liberia), x. p. 101 (1888), xi. p. 136 (1889). 

 Ardea leucolopha, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Ardeaj, p. 50 (1863 : Gold 



Coast). 

 Botaurus (Tigrisoma) leucolopbus, Eeichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 12 



(Loango Coast). 



Adult. General coloui' above greenish black, Landed with sandy 

 butf, the light bars on the wing-coverts conspicuouslj' broader, the 

 darker bars with a greenish or purplish reflection ; bastard-wing, 

 primary-coverts, and quills greenish black, with white tips, the 

 secondaries barred with sandy buff on the outer web and with 

 white on the inner web ; lower back and rump dusky black, with 

 arrow-head markings of sandy buff or yellow ; upper tail-coverts 

 and tail-feathers greenish black, with five sandy-buff" or white bars, 

 besides the white tip; head black, with a few small bars of buff, 

 and with a patch of white elongated plumes on the nape ; sides of 

 face and sides of neck barred with black and sandy buff, as also the 

 throat ; the chin white, but with black bars ; the centre of the 

 throat vinous with small black bars or spots ; the sides of the fore- 

 neck and the under surface of the body vinous brown, with longi- 

 tudinal white centres to the feathers, and black spots on both webs, 

 becoming almost obsolete on the abdomen and not very distinct on 



