246 jEGITHALUS CAPENSIS. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



. Forehead mottled with black. 

 a 1 . Forehead white with black bases to the 

 feathers ; upper throat white ; breast 



sulphur yellow capensis. ty ( 



b 1 . Forehead yellow with black tips to the 

 feathers. 



a 2 . Throat and breast whitish puncti/rons. z-Kf 



b 2 . Throat and breast bright yellow . . . parvulus. zic 

 , Forehead with no black markings. 

 c 1 . Above olive green ; throat yellow. 



c 3 . Forehead pale yellow flavifrons. - J~c 



cl 2 . Forehead medium yellow camaroonensis . ^ s~ / 



c 2 . Forehead orange yellow calotropiphilus. 2 _ 



d 1 . Above ashy brown. 

 f 2 . Throat white. 



a 3 . Forehead whitish contrasting with the 



crown ; abdomen rufous buff . . . caroli. ■ 

 b 3 . Forehead brown like the upper parts 

 generally, abdomen white or slightly 



shaded with buff musculus. 



g 2 . Forehead, neck and chest isabelline 



rufous fring Minus . .- 



iEgithalus capensis. 



iEgithalus capensis (Gm.), Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 70, pi. 1, fig. 2 

 (1883, pt. S. Afr.), Sclater, Ibis, 1887, p. 462 ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. 

 No. 127 (1896) ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. I. p. 310, fig. (1900). 



yEgithalus smithi, Jard. and Selby, Hartl. Zool. Jahrb. ii. p. 344 (1887) 

 S. Afr. 



Anthoscopus capensis, Ayres, Ibis, 1878, p. 286; 1880, p. 103 Trans- 

 vaal; Shelley, Ibis, 1882, p. 257 Spalding s ; Sharpe, ed. Layard's 

 B. S. Afr. pp. 327, 834 (1884) ; Eeichen. J. f. O. 1886, p. 118 

 Damara; Fleck, J. f. O. 1894, p. 412 Damara ; Kuschel, J. f. 0. 

 1895, p. 347 (egg). 



Paroides capensis, Ayres, Ibis, 1871, p. 154 Limpopo. 



