26. PYOCEPHALUS. 375 



/•-«. Ad. sk. Tette {Livingstone). Lord Russell [P.]. 



v. 2 ad. sk. Makalaka, September. W. E. & C. G. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 «', X. S 2 ad. sk. Matabili, July ( T. E. Buckley). Shelley Coll. 

 !/,-■ 6 2 ad. sk. Tati, October. W. E. & C. G. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Bamanguato, July (T. E. Shelley Coll. 



Buckley). 

 Limpopo Paver, July (T. Ayres). J. H. Gurney, Esq. 



Transvaal {Ayres). Sharpe Coll. 



llolfontein, Transvaal. W. E. & C. G. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Lake Ngami (Chapman). Sharpe Coll. 



Ondonga, Jan. (Andersson). Sharpe Coll. 



Caconda, Dec. (Anchieta). Shellev Coll. 



Abvssinia. W. T.Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



14. Pceocephalus riippelli. 



Paittacus riippellii, G. R. Gr. P. Z. S. 1848, p. 123, pL v. (River 

 Nunez) ; id. Gen. B. iii. App. p. 20 (1840) ; Haiti. Syst. Orn. W.- 

 Afr. p. 1< ; 8 (1857) ; G. R. Gr. List Psitt. Brit. Mus. p. 71 (1859) ; 

 Hurt/. Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 26-> (Gaboon) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. 

 Psittaci, p. 36 (1864); Monteiro, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 94 ; Chapm. 

 Trav. in S. Afr., App. p. 406 (1868) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 19 

 (1871); Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Psittaci, Revue, p. 10 (1874). 

 Pceocephalus riippelli, Strickl. $ Sclat. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 156 

 (Damara-Land) ; Bp. Rev. et Mag. </<< Zml. 1854. p. 154, n. 217; 

 Souanci, Bev. et Mag. de Zool. 1856, p. 216: Boeage, Jorn. Sc. 

 Lis!,, n. 4, 1867, p. 3:15 ; Sousa. Mus. Xac. Lisb. Psittaci, p. 20 

 (1869) ; Boeage, Jam. Se. List,, u. 17, 1874. p. 57; Rchnw. 

 VogelbUd. t. vii. f. .'! (1878-83) ; id. Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 385 

 {Consp. Psitt. p. 225). 

 Poiocephalus riippellii, Hart I. Journ. f. Orn. 1854, p. 194, Ber. 



p. lxiii. 

 Pyocephalus riippelli, Bp. Xauntannia, 1856, Consp. Psitt. n. 216. 

 Phaeocephalus riippelli, Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1863, p. 271. 

 Pionias riippelli, Finsrh, Tapag. ii. p. - 498 (1868) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. 



iii. p. 192 (1877) : Boeage, Orn. An;/, pp. xiv, 67 (1881). 

 Poicephalus riippellii, G. R. Gr. Hand-list. ii. p. 161, n. 8286 (1870); 



Anderss. B. Damara-Land. p. 214 (1872). 

 Psittacus rueppelli, Sharpe. Bayard's Birds of S. Afr. p. 196 (1875- 



84); Tristr. Cat. Coll. 11. p.*78(lss9). 

 Pceocephalus rueppelli, Salv. Cat. Ii. Strickl. Coll. p. 4i'>:! (1882) ; 

 Sclat. P. /. S. L882, pp. 121, 577, pL xlii. ; id. List Vert. An. 8th 

 ed. p. 338 (1883) (East Africa !). 



Adult male. General colour above and below smoky brown ; sides 

 of the head greyish, the car-coverts decidedly inclining to silvery 

 grey; the feathers of the rump and the upper tail-coverts with 

 darker edges ; smaller wing-coverts on the bend of wings, metacarpal 

 edge, and under wing-coverts yellow; thighs also yellow, more or less 

 with an orange tinge : I » i 1 1 and feel dark horn-colour; iris orange. 

 Total length 8'5 inches, wing 5*5, tail :s. bill 0*95, tarsus mi. 



