of XurtJi-etisteni Africa. 101 



gi'icante notatis ; rostro pallide incaniato ccrino cornco ; 

 pedibus rubello cerinis ; iridc fusca. 

 Long. tot. 5 1", rostr. a fr. oy , ab ang. or. 7|"', al. 2" 6'", 

 caud. 2" 2'", tars. \0\"' . 



I regard this bird, of which, however, I have only one speci- 

 men before me, as specifically distinct from Dnjmceca robusta : 

 the much lighter bill is shorter, much more curved and much 

 higher than in that ; on the vertex and nape the bright brownish- 

 rusty colour is entirely wanting and replaced by tawny-yellow ; 

 the nape-feathers show a pretty distinct dark striation ; the 

 mantle-feathers are margined with bright tawny-ycllow ; the 

 rump likewise tawny-yellow, spotless ; the much broader margins 

 of the rectrices of the same colour. The white apex of the tail 

 is only half as broad as in D. robusta, and the blackish spot is 

 distinctly visible on the median pair of feathers. Of the remiges 

 the fifth is the longest ; the fourth scarcely, and the third notably 

 shorter ; the under tail-coverts reach to the tip of the first 

 rectrices, while in all the specimens of D. robusta before me they 

 are from 4'" to 6'" shorter. 



I obtained the bird described, which was determined to be a 

 male, through the French traveller, M. A. de Malzac, who killed it 

 in March on the lower Bahr el Djebel, near Djak, in the district 

 of the Kidj negroes. We never met with Dnjmmca robusta in 

 the region of the White Nile. 



19. DrYM(ECA LIJGUBRIS. 



Drymoeca lugubris, Riipp., Syst. Ueb. No. 124, and tab. ii. ; 

 Heug]., Syst. Ueb. No. 164; Lefebv., Ois. Abyss, p. 89; Bp., 

 Consp. Av. i. p. 283. Drymceca bizonura, Heugl., Syst. Ueb, 

 No. 176. 



Similis quoad figuram Drymcecce erxjthrogeni, at caiida breviore, 

 apice purius trifasciata; pileo obsolete fumoso cano, ru- 

 fescenti lavato ; cervice obscuriore, obsolete fuscescenti- 

 varia ; interscapulio et scapularibus fuliginoso uigi-ican- 

 tibus, plumis indistinete fuscescente cinereo marginatis; 

 uropygio et supracaudalibus fuscescente canis, his ex parte 

 nigricante striolatis ; tertiariis et tectricibus alte nigri- 

 cante fuscis, stricte et obsolete fulvescenti-albido mar- 

 ginatis ; remigibus fumosis, extus basin versus magis ma- 

 gisvc cinnamomeo marginatis, intus rufesccnti-fulvo lim- 



