7. SMILOEHIS. 



1. Smilorhis leucotis. 



Megalsema leucotis, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Stockh. 1850, p. 109 ; 



Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 74 (1854). 

 Megalaima leucotis, Goffin, Mus. Pays-Bas, Buccones, p, 48 (1863) ; 



Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 234 (1867) ; Gray, List Capit. Brit. Mus. 



p. 16 (1868) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 176, no. 8475 (1870) ; Finsch ^ 



Hard. Vdy. Ost-Afr. p. 505 (1870). 

 Barbatula leucotis, Marsh. Monogr. Capit. p. 131, pi. 52 (1871) ; 



Gurney, Ibis, 1873, p. 255. 

 Smilorhis leucotis, Simdev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 75 (1872) ; Sharpe, 



ed. Layard's B. tS. Afr. p. 177 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above light brown on the mantle, 

 upper back, and scapulars, the feathers edged with pale fawn-brown 

 or buff; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts blackish, the sides 

 of the lower back white ; wing-coverts and quills brown, blackish 

 towards the ends and oa the outer web ; tail-feathers blackish 

 brown ; head and hind neck black, with glossy black shafts ; a broad 

 white band from behind the eye extending to the sides of the neck ; 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and chest blackish, the 

 latter rather paler brown, especially on the sides ; breast, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts white ; sides of body blackish, some of the 

 feathers white-edged ; thighs brown ; under wing-coverts and axil- 

 laries white ; quills dusky below, white along the inner web : " bill 

 and feet black " (J. Waldherg). Total length 6-2 inches, culmen 0-8, 

 wing 2-45, tail 1'85, tarsus 0*9. 



Hah. South-eastern Africa, from Natal to Mozambique. 



a. $ ad. sk. Natal, Nov. 8 (J. Wahlbery). Sharpe Coll. 



2. Smilorhis kilimensis. 



Megalfema leucotis {iiec Sund.), Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. i. p. 371 



(1884); id. J.f. O. 1885, p. 125. 

 Barbatula leucotis {7iec Sund.), Shelley, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 223; id. 



P. Z. S. 1889, p. 357. 

 Smilorhis kilimensis, Shelley, Ibis, 1889, p. 477. 



Adult female. Similar to ^. leucotis, but blacker ; the lower back, 

 rump, and upper tail-coverts white, or else the feathers dull brown, 

 externally white : " bill and feet black ; iris brown " (G. A. Fischer). 

 Total length 7 inches, culmen 0'8, wing 3-65, tail 2*12, tarsus 0-8. 



Hah. lleplaces S. leucotis in East Africa. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Kilimanjaro, 3000-GOOO ft. II. II. Johnston, Esq. [C.]. 



(Tvpes of species.) 

 c. $ ad. sk. Taveta, June. H. C. V. Hunter, Esq. [P.], 



