358 cvcvuda:, 



and the tail black glossed -with green ; remainder of the plumage 

 nearly nniform chestnut, with dark brown ends to the quills ; biU 

 and legs black ; iris red. Total length l0"5 inches, culmen 1'25, 

 wing 6-3, tail 8, tarsus 1'6. 

 -Hab. Gold Coast, West Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Fantee {H. T. Ussher). Sharps CoU. 



22. Centropus leucogaster. 



Polophilus leucogaster, Leach, Zool. Misc. i. p. 117 * (1814) ; Steph. 



Gen. Zool. ix. p. 49, pi. 12. 

 Coi-ydonix leucogaster, Yieill. Nouv, Diet. Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 299 



(1819). 

 Centropus senegalensis (nee Linn.), Sundev. (Efv. Kongl. Vet.-Ak. 



Fork Stock. 1849, p. 162. 

 Centropus francisi, £p. Consp. i. p. 107 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. 



W.-Afr. p. 186 (1857) ; CWs.s. I'r. Ac. Philad. 1859, p. 142 ; Schl. 



Mtis. Pays-Bas, Cuculi, p. 71 (18(J4) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. 



p. 213, no. 8950 ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 621 ; Ussher, Ibis, 



1874, p. 54 ; Beichen. J. f. O. 1875, p. 5 ; Biittik. Kates Leyden 



Mm. vii. p. 222 (1885), viii. p. 264 (1886), x. p. 96 (1888). 



Achdt. Entire head, neck, and upper back glossj- blue-black; 

 wings deep chestnut, M'ith brown ends to the quills; remaiuder of 

 the back black, mottled with chestnut bars about the middle ; rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail glossy greenish black, crossed by narrow 

 buff bars except towards the terminal half of the tail ; breast white, 

 passing into rufous-buff on the sides of the body and the under tail- 

 coverts ; under surface of the wings chestnut like the upper aspect : 

 bill black ; irides red ; legs slate-colour. Total length 21 inches, 

 culmen 1-7, wing 7'7, tail 12, tarsus 2-1. 



Nestling. Differs from the adult in having white shaft-stripes on 

 the head and throat, and white shaft-spots on the back of the neck. 

 The wing-feathers are all rather narrowly barred with black, and 

 the breast is slightly more rufous. Total length 11 inches. 



Hah. West Africa, from Liberia to the Camaroons. 



a. Imni. sk. [Australia*.] Old Coll. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. ; c. Juv. sk. Fantee (Aubinn). Seebohm Coll. 

 d-(j. Ad. sk. Fantee {H. T. Ussher). Shai-pe Coll. 

 h, i. Ad. sk. Gold Coast. Shelley Coll. 



* The habitat is given as Australia, but this isau endent mistake. The type 

 ie in the Museum, and there can be no doubt as to the correctness of this ideu- 

 tilicitiou. 



