246 ARDEID^. 



Hah. The greater part of Africa, extending occasionally to the 

 Canaries, and even said to have occurred iu the Pyrenees. 



a. Ad. sk. Elver Gambia. Governor RendalL 



[C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Bathurst, River Gambia. Shelley CoU. 



c. Ad. sk. Fantee. Shelley Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Cape Coast Castle ((?. E. S.). Shelley Coll. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Accra [J. Smith). Shelley Coll. 

 /. S ad. sk. E,io Dande, Angola, May 21. Monteiro CoU. 

 ff. $ ad. sk. Ondonga, Ovampo - laud, Gumey CoU. 



April 2 {C. J. Andersson). 



h. Ad. sk. Semmio, Niam Niam Coun- F. Bohndorff [C.]. 



try, March, 



z. (5'ad.; A. $ juv. Lamu, Aug. F. J. Jackson, Esq. 



sk. [P.]. 



/. Juv. sk. Pangani River ((Sir JlXtrA;). Shelley CoU. 



m. § ad. sk. Zomba Plain, Nyasa-land, H. H. Johnston, E3C[., 



April 22 {A. Whyte). C.B. [P.]. 



n. Ad. sk. Matabele-land {F. Gates). W. E. & C. G. Oates^ 



Esqrs. [P.]. 



0. Ad. sk. South Africa. Sir A. Smith. (Type 



of A. gutturalis.) 



p. Ad. sk. " Pyrenees." Gould Coll. 



33. DUPETOR. „ 



Type. 



Dupetor, Heine 8f Reichen. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. 



p. .308 (1890) _ D. flavicoUis. 



Xanthocnus, SJiarpe, Bull. B. O. Cluh, iii. p. xxsvii 



(1894) D. flavicollis. 



Range. China ; India and Ceylon ; Burma ; Malayan Eegiort 

 and Islands ; Australia. 



Key to the Sj^ecies. 



a. With chestnut spots down the centi-e of the 

 throat ; the lower throat varied with bright 

 chestnut ; abdomen slate-colour ; adults with 



black cheeks, young with red Jlavicollis, p. 247, 



h. With black spots down the upper throat ; 



lower throat black or slightly varied with 



brown, not bright chestnut ; abdomen brown 



or blackish ; cheeks black in young and old. 



a'. Abdomen brown ; throat and fore - neck 



distinctly mottled with pale reddish 



brown gouldi, p. 249. 



b'. Abdomen slaty grey ; throat and fore-neck 



slightly mottled with reddish brown .... nesophilus, p. 250, 

 c'. Abdomen black ; throat and fore - neck 

 almost uniform black, with a very faint 

 and scarcely perceptible shade of browu . . melas, p. 251. 



