450 



MtJSOPHAGID^. 



the eye grey ; cheeks and chin white, shading into verditer-blue on 

 the remainder of the neck ; chest pale green ; abdomen, thighs, and 

 under tail-coverts rufous-brown ; under surface of tail marked with 

 yellow like the upper surface, the remainder black ; under surface 

 of wings black, with a large portion of the smaller coverts verditer- 

 blue : " bill yellow, with a large terminal portion scarlet ; iris red ; 

 legs dusky black " {Emin Pasha). Total length 28 inches, culmen 

 1*7, wing 12-3, tail 14-5, tarsus 2-1. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male. Total length 29 

 inches, culmen 1*8, wing 12-6, tail 14-7, tarsus 2-25. 



Hab. The same as that of the genus. 



a. Ad. sk. West Africa. Purchased. 



h. Ad. St. Fernando Po. T. Thomson, Esq. [P.]. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Denkei-a {H. T. Ussher). Shelley Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Fantee (Auhhin). Sharpe Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Cameroons Mountains Shai'pe Coll. 



{Crossley). 



g. Ad. sk. Gaboon. H. T. Ansell, Esq. [P.]. 



h. Ad. sk, Semmio, Niam-Niam F. Bohndorff [C.]. 



Country, Feb. 



i-n. Ad.sk. Tingasi, Equatorial Africa, Emin Pasha [P.]. 



July, Sept. 



o,p. Ad. sk. Angola. Sharpe Coll. 



q. Skeleton. Eyton Coll. 



5. SCHIZORHIS. 



Type. 



Chizterhis, Wagl. Syst. Av. p. Ill (1827) S. africana. 



Schizorhis, Wagl. Isis, 1829, p. G56 S. africaua. 



Corvthaixoides, Smith, S. Afr. Quart. Jotirn. i. p. 48 



(1833) S. concolor. 



Colopliimus, Sfnitk, Sep. Exp. Centr. Afr. p. 54 (1836). . S. concolor. 

 Ichthierax, Kaup, Class. Sciug. u. JUg. p. Ill (1844) .... S. africana. 



Eange, The whole of the Ethiopian Region. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Bill yellow ; crest-feathers lanceolate. 



a . With no white on the tail africana, p. 450. 



h' . With a white bar on the tail . zmiura, p. 451. 



6. Bill black or olive ; crest-feathers not lanceolate. 



c'. Breast and a bar on the tail white leucogaster, p. 452. 



d'. Entire plumage ashy gi-ey concolor, p. 453. 



1. Schizorhis africana. 



Phasianus africanus. Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 631 (1790). 



Le Touraco Musophaga, Levaill. Hist. Nat. Prom. etc. p. 37, pi. 20 



(1806). 

 Musophaga senegaleusis, Lichf. T'erz. Doubl. p. 7 (1823). 

 Musophaga variegata, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 1296 (1823); id. Gal. 



Ois. p. 44, pi. 48 (1825). 



