17. TKACIIVI'IIONL'S. 101 



Capito viiillaiitii, Gruy, Geu. B. ii. p. 4;{0 (184f)) ; Layardy B. S. 



Afr. p. 23.5 (18G7). " 

 Capito cafer, Go^n, Mus. Fays- Bun, Buccones, p. G-j (1863). 



Adult male. General colour above glossy blue-black, the feathers 

 of tho back and scapulars rather broadly edged with white ; lower 

 back and rump sulphur-yellow ; upper tail-coverts scarlet ; wing- 

 eoverts glossy black, the inner ones of all three series white, forming 

 a large jjatch ; the median and greater coverts broadly tipped with 

 white like the back, as also the inner secondaries ; primary-coverts 

 and quills black, checkered with spots of white on the outer web ; 

 tail-feathers black, broadly tipped with white, and spotted with 

 white on the edges of both inner and outer webs, these spots being 

 four in number ; head strongly crested, uniform glossy black ; fore- 

 head, eyebrow, sides of face, and ear-coverts bright yellow, varied 

 with scarlet margins to the feathers, this yellow colour extending 

 backwards along the sides of the neck, but in this place not fringed 

 with scarlet; throat sulphur-yellow, followed by a broad, black 

 collar on the fore neck, the feathers of the upper part of this black 

 collar tipped with large spots of rosy white ; on each side of tho 

 collar a large spot of creamy white extending across the chest, but 

 not very distinct in the middle ; remainder of the under surface of 

 body bright sulphur-yellow, the breast streaked with scarlet edges 

 to the feathers, the under tail-coverts also with scarlet margins ; the 

 sides of the body and thighs slightly mottled with black bases to the 

 feathers ; under wing-coverts and quill-lining ashy white : " bill 

 pale green, with a dusky tip ; tarsi and feet dusky ash ; iris dark 

 lake" (J. S. Jamesoii). Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 1, wing 

 3*9, tail 3"3, tarsus i*0o. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, only differing in having the 

 colours a little paler, and in having a slight tinge of scarlet on the 

 spots of the upper part of the prttpectoral collar. Total length 8 

 inches, cnlmen O'Uo, wing 3-9, tail 3-1, tarsus 1-05. 



Tounr/. Browner than the adults and having very little of the 

 blue-black gloss. The colours nowhere quite so vivid as in the 

 adults, and with less scarlet on the face and throat. 



Hab. Eastern portion of South Africa. 



a. $ jiiv.sk. Weenen, Natal, March 1 (W. Shelley Coll. 



Arnold). 



h.Ad.sk. Transvaal (r.-4y/-e.s). Sharpe Coll. 



c, rf. 2 ad. sk. Crocodile River, Julv, Nov. W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



{F. Oafes). ' Esqvs. [P.]. 



r. c( ad.; /. $ Limpopo Kiver, July, Nov. (7'. Shelley Coll. 



ad. sk. F. Buckley). 



g. (S ad. sk. Rusteuberg. F. A. Ban-att, Esq. 



h. Ad. .-li. Makalftka Country (Dr. Brad- Shelley Coll. 



shaic). 

 I, k. Ad. sk. Tete, Zambesi {Sir J. Kirk). T.ivingstoue E.xped. 



