38 CINNYKICINCLUS LEUCOGASTER 



Type. 

 Cinnyi-icinclus, Less-Rev. Zool. 18i0, p. 272 . . . . C. leucogastcr. 

 Pholidaoges, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 198 (1851) . . ' . . C. leucogastcr. 



Pholia, Reichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1900, p. 99 C. nharpci. 



The genus is confined to Tropical and South Africa, and comprises 

 five species. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



a. No spots or stripes on the under parts. 

 a'^. Breast and under tail-coverts vphite. 



a". Head, neck and back rich metallic violet. 



a^. No wliite on outer tail-feathers .... leucogastcr, 3 , ad. 



b^. A white outer edge to the tail verreauxi, J , ad. 



6-. Head, neck and back not rich metallic 

 violet, 

 c^. Head, neck and back silvery grey . . . fischeri. 

 d'^. Head, neck and back bluish black . . . femoralis. 

 b^. Breast and under tail-coverts pale cinnamon ; 



throat white sharpci. 



b. Some stripes or spots on the under parts. 



c^. Upper parts rufous-shaded brown, some broad 



pale cinnamon inner edges to the quills . . leucogastcr and ver- 

 reauxi, ? , and juv. 

 dK Upper parts more sooty brown, often with a 



bluish gloss sharpci, juv. 



Cinnyricinclus leucogaster. 



Turdus leucogaster, Gm. S. N. ii. p. 819 (1788) Whidah. 



Cinnyricinclus leucogaster, Reichen. Yog. Afr. ii. p. (379 (1903) ; Kemp, 



Ibis, 1905, p. 246 Sierra Leone; Neuni. J. f. O. 1905, p. 237; 



Erlanger, t. c. p. 707 N. E. Afr. 

 Lamprotornis leucogaster. Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 152, pi. 8 (1837). 

 Pholidauges leucogaster, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 121 (1890); Shelley, 



B. Afr. I. No. 580 (1896). 



Adult male. Entire head, neck, back and upper tail-coverts brilliantly 

 glossed with broad violet ends to the feathers, and most of the feathers on 

 the back have subterminal steel blue bars ; tail blackish brown, with the 

 centre feathers and portion of the outer webs of the others glossy violet ; 

 vpings brownish black, with nearly the whole of the coverts and inner 

 secondaries glossy violet like the back ; under wing-coverts with a few white 



