16. TYMPANISTRIA. 505 



(1855) ; id. Coup d'mil OrdrePig. pp. 32, 57, n. 197 (1855) ; Rchnb. 



Tauben, i. p. 78, t. 258. f. 1335 (1862)*, ii. p. 176 (1862) ; Sclat. 



List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 459 (1883) ; Hein. $ Rchnw. Nomencl. 



Mas. Hein. Orn. p. 285 (1890). 

 Tympanistria frasen, lip. Consp. Av. ii. p. 67 (1854) ; id. Compt. Rend. 



xl. pp. lit, 219, o. 198 (1855) ; id, Coup d'ceil Ordre Pig. pp. 32, 



57, n. 198 (1855) ; id. Compt. Rend, xliii. pp. 943, 949 (1856) 



( = bicolor) ; G. R. Or. Hand-list, ii. p. 244, n. 9407 (1870). 

 Tympanistria tympanistria, G. R. Gr. Hand-list, ii. p. 244, n. 9406 



(1870) ; Rut/., Fetid., Sf Reid, Zoolo>/. 1883, p. 338 (Natal) ; Shell. 



Ibis, 1883, p. 326 ; Sharpe, Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 571 (1884) ; 



Shell. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 230 (Kilimanjaro), 1889, p. 309 (Taveta, 



E. Africa) ; Rchnw. J. f. O. 1892, p. 15 (Sirwa I., Itolio, Victoria 



Nyanza), p. 179 (Cameroon) ; Shell, R>is, 1893, p. 29 (Zomba). 

 Chalcoptera (errore) tympanistria, Shell. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 678 (Great 



Comoro). 

 Cbalcopelia tympanistria, Fischer, J. f. O. 1879, p. 300 (E. Afr.) ; 



Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 550 (1882) ; Hartert, Eat. Vogelr 



samml. p. 187 (1891). 

 Haplopelia tympanistria, Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 40 (1889). 



Adult male. Upper parts brown-grey ; forehead, superciliary 

 stripes extending to the sides of the occiput, cheeks, and underparts 

 pure white ; lores dark brown, sides of the neck more grey than 

 the upper parts ; across the rump two broad bands, more or less 

 distinct, of blackish brown, and between them a pale greyish-brown 

 band ; a similar but almost obsolete band borders the second dark 

 band ; under tail-coverts brown-grey ; on the inner wing-coverts 

 and inner secondaries several dark spots varying from metallic green 

 to dark purple, almost black ; primary-coverts and primaries cinna- 

 mon, with the outer webs and tips dark brown ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillars cinnamon ; lower flanks tinged with brown ; six centre 

 tail-feathers uniform brown, with a reddish tinge, the outer three 

 pairs shade into grey with a broad subtermiual black band ; under 

 surfaco of the tail brown, with an obsolete, darker, subterminal 

 band, tips of the feathers pale brown, grey on the outer ones : " iris 

 hazel ; bill dark puqile ; tarsi and feet deep pink " (Ayres). Total 

 length about 8 - 4 inches, wing 4-5 to 4 - 65, tail 3-6, bill 0*58 to 0'6, 

 tarsus 0*8. 



Female. Differs slightly in the forehead, cheeks, lower throat, and 

 breast being tinted with dusky grey ; the spots on the wings always 

 blackish, never metallic green. 



Immature birds have the secondaries with rufous bands towards 

 the tips. 



Hab. The whole of S. Africa, northward on the west coast to 

 Casamance, and on the east coast to Mombas* also Madagascar, the 

 Comoro Islands and Fernando Po. 



Ad. sk. S. Africa. Sharpe OolL 



Ad. st. Cape. Dr. Krauss [C.]. 



* Reichenbach's work is mentioned by Iiartlaub, J. f. O. 1861, p. 266, so 

 that it appears to have been published before 1802. 



