122 PHASIANID^. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Genoa. Salvin-Godman Coll, 



b. (S ad. sk. San Remo [F. Gould). Gould Coll. 



c. 2 ad. sk. Tripoli, Dec. Goidd CoU. 



d. cJ ad. sk. Tunis, March. Gould Coll. 



e-ff. cJ ad. sk. Tangiers. Shelley & Tweeddale 



Colls. 

 h-k. d ? ad. sk. Teueriffe, April {F. D. God- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



7nan). 

 I. ? ad. sk. Teneriffe, March. E. G. B. Meade- 



Waldo, Esq. [P.]. 



Hybrid between Caccabis saxatilis and C. petrosa. See p. 112. 



5. Caccabis melanocephala. 



Perdix melanocephala, Eiipj). N. Wirbelth., Viiy. p. 11, pi. v. (1836) 



[Jeddah]. 

 Chacura melanocephala, Hiipp. Voff. N.O.-Afr. p. 106, no. 377 



(1845) ; Heuffl. Vikj. N.O.-Afr. p. 50, no. 524 (1856). 

 Caccabis melanocephala. Gray, Gen. B. iii. p. 508 (1846) ; Heugl. 



Orn. N.O.-Afr. iii. p. 919 (1873) [Mecca]; Yerbury, Ibis, 1886, 



p. 19 [Aden Dist.] ; Barnes, Ibis, 1893, p. 160 [Aden]. 

 Francolinus yemensis, Nichols. P. Z. S. 1851, p. 128, pi. 40. 

 Caccabis nielanocephalus, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 274 (1870). 

 Perdix botta, vide Hevgl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iii. p. 919 (1873). 

 Caccabis yemensis, £'eM(/^. Orn. N.O.-Afr. iii. p. 918 (1873). 



Adidt male and female. Lores, top of the head, and nape black, 

 the latter more or less washed ■with deep chestnut and somewhat 

 elongate, forming a moderate crest ; neck pale isabelline, shaded 

 here and there with dull rufous. Eest of the upper parts slate- 

 blue, each feather, especially on the upper back and wing-coverts, 

 margined with brownish isabelline. Quills as in other members of 

 the genus. A wide white superciliary stripe, which commences 

 behind the lores and in front of the eye, is continued backwards 

 on the sides of the head and shades into the neck. A black line 

 below the eye ending in a patch above the angle of the gape ; a 

 black spot on the chin and one on either side at the base of the 

 lower mandible. Ear-coverts black, fringed with buff; the white 

 cheeks and throat are surrounded by a wide black band terminating 

 on either side behind the ear-coverts and continued down the 

 middle of the neck. The feathei's of the ear-coverts, throat, and 

 fore neck are elongate and somewhat hairy in appearance. Chest 

 and upper breast grey, margined with isabelline, some of the 

 feathers with a small black spot on one or both webs near the 

 extremity of the margin. Middle of the lower breast and belly, 

 thighs, and under tail-coverts buff. Feathers of the sides and flanks 

 slate-grey, with the terminal part white crossed by two narrow 

 black bars, the outer subterminal and the inner dividing the grey 

 from the white. The tail-feathers are dark grey, shading into 

 blackish towards the extremity and tipped with buff, the two middle 

 pairs are also finely mottled, especially towards the edge of the 

 webs, with buff and dusky. 



