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CAPITONID^. 



4. TRICHOL^MA. „ 



Type. 

 Tricholama, J. ^ E. Fen: J.f. O. 1855, p. 132 T. hirsutum. 



Range. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. No red on the forehead, which is black or 



browa Hke the crown. 

 a'. Larger ; abdomen yellow, spotted with 



black hirsutum, p. 28. 



b'. Smaller ; abdomen never yellow or with 

 black spots. 

 a". Eyebrow white. 



a'" . Forehead brown, like the crown .... stiymatothoraj-, p. 29. 

 h'". Forehead black, like the crown. 

 a*. Mantle spotted with yellow ; no 



black spots on the flanks tnelanocephaium, p. 30. 



b^. Mantle black ; large ovate spots of 



black on the flanks lachryynosutn, p. 31. 



b". Fore part of eyebrow yellow affine, p. 31. 



b. Forehead red. 



c'. Throat black leuconielan, p. 31. 



d'. Throat white. 



c". No black spots on breast diadematum, p. 33. 



d" . Breast spotted with black. 



c'". Edges of quills and taU-feathers 



straw-yellow * frontatum, p. 34. 



d!". Edges of quills and tail-feathers sul- 

 phur-yellow * masaicum, p. 34. "' 



1. Tricholaema hirsutum. 



Pogonias hirsutus, Swains. Zool. Illustr. ii. pi. 72 (1821-22) ; id. B. 



W.Afr. ii. p. 172 (1837); Bp. Comp. i. p. 145 (1850); Hartl. 



Orn. W.-Afr. p. 172 (1857) ; Cass. Proc. I'hilad. Acad. 1859, 



p. 140 ; Hartl. J.f. 0. 1861, p. 262; Sharpe, Ibis, 1800, p. 386. 

 Laimodon hirsutus, Grai/, Gen. B. ii. p. 429 (1846). 

 Trieholsema flavipunctata, J. Sf E. Verr. J. f. O. 1855, p. 102 ; id. 



Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1855, p. 555, pi. 14 ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1877, 



Pogonorhynehus hirsutus, Goffin, Mus. Pays-Bas, Buccones, p. 11 

 (1863) ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mus. p. 5 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. 

 ii. p. 173, no. 8431 (lf^70) ; Reichen. J.f. O. 1875, p. 48 ; Biittik. 

 Notes Leyden Mus. vii. p. 215 (1885), viii. p 263 (1886), x. p. 94 

 (1888). 



Tricholjema hirsutum, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 15 (1871) ; id. P. Z. S. 

 1871, p. 605 ; Marshall, Monogr. Capit. p. 5, pi. 3 (1871) ; S?ielley 

 ^ Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 287 ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 74; Sharpe^ 

 Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, iii. p. 78 (1878); Bocaye, Orn. 

 Angola, p. 539 (1881) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1889, p. 476. 



* These characters are taken from Eeichenow's notes {I. c), as I have not 

 seen these two species. 



