AND SOUTH WESÏEBN AFRICA. 235- 



neck and down the centre of the mantle very much va- 

 ried with white , scapularies and lesser wing-coverts more 

 uniform hrown; flufiy feathers on lower back and rump 

 ashy gray, with very large white subterminal spots and 

 dark brown tips , upper tail-coverts black , quills (especi- 

 ally the secondaries) edged and tipped with white or pale 

 fulvous; greater and second series of wing-coverts and 

 primary-coverts very broadly edged and tipped with pale 

 fulvous and white , lower surface of the wing uniform pale 

 fulvous; tail black, each feather, except the central ones, 

 with the outer web and tip white , the dark parts barred 

 across with pale brown. Entire under surface of body white, 

 with faint blackish longitudinal striolations , especially on 

 chest and sides of breast. The young female , which was 

 collected in May , has the lower surface much more mott- 

 led with black; the superciliary streak is pure white, the 

 tips to the feathers ou the crown are almost entirely gone 

 and the white edgings to the tail-feathers are much redu- 

 ced , leaving only the outer web of the outermost pair 

 pure white. The pale brown bars across the tail-feathers 

 have also disappeared. There is no transitional stage be- 

 tween these two and the adult. 



Iris in adult and young dark brown , in one of the first, 

 however , it is said by the collector to be orange , in ano- 

 ther blood-red ; bill black , feet bluish gray. 



93. T el e p h nu s Senegal 21 s (Linn). 



Laniarius senegalus , Sharpe, Birds S. Afr. p. 394. 

 TelepJioniis erythropterus, Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 223. 



An adult female, 23 March, Kasinga River. 

 Iris brown , bill black , feet bluish gray. 



94. Graucalibs pectoralis, Jard. & Selby. 



Graucalus pectoralis, Sharpe , Birds S. Afr. p. 843. 

 Cehlepyris pectoralis, Boc. Orn. d'Ang. p. 205. 



Two, probably immature, though full-grown males, are 

 totally resembling the adult female of this species in plu- 



Notes from tb.e Ley den INXviseum, "Vol. X. 



