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They allowed a near approach, and then almost invariably 

 took a short flight to the shade of some other bush. 



This species was described under three diiferent names in 

 the year 1850, first as P. frontalis, Bp. Cabanis wrongly refers 

 this title to P. nigriceps, Gould, the species next above his 

 Coraphites melanauchen, showing that Bonaparte's name has 

 priority, and in neither work is Goraphites albifrons, Sundev., 

 quoted ; therefore this name was apparently the third in order 

 of priority. 



Pyrrhulauda nigriceps. (PI. 20.) 



Pyrrhulauda nigriceps, Gould, Voy. Beagle, B. p. 87 (1841) Cape Verde 

 Is. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 650 (1890) ; Alexander, Ibis, 1898, 

 pp. 85, 112, 116, 283 ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisboa, 1898, p. 146 ; Salvad. 

 Ann. Mus. Genov. 1899, p. 295 Ca^je Verde Is. 



Pyrrhulauda leueotis (nee Stanley), Bocage, Jorn. Lisboa, 1867, p. 142 

 Cape Verde Is. 



Adult male. Similar to P. frontalis, but differs in having more white on 

 the head and no black on the back of the neck. A broad crescent-shaped 

 patch of black on the hinder half of the crown is connected by a band 

 through the eye to the black lores and cheek ; chin, throat and sides of neck 

 black, like the breast and under tail-coverts ; remainder of the head and neck 

 white, shading gradually into buffy brown on the back, which latter is 

 slightly mottled with dark brown centres to the feathers ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back ; remainder of the feathers of the wing brown, with narrower 

 brownish buff edges, and the under wing-coverts black ; tail blackish brown, 

 with the centre feathers and the edges of the others paler ; under parts 

 uniform black, with a pale patch on each side of the crop, and the thighs 

 buff. Iris dark hazel, bill light bluish horn colour, legs and claws flesh 

 colour. Total length, 4-8 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3, tail 1-6, tarsus 06. 

 ^ , 2. 97. St. Jago (Alexander). 



Adult female. Differs from the male in the black of the plumage being 

 confined to the axillaries and under wing-coverts ; the top of the head and 

 back of the neck isabelline, with some angular brown centres to the 

 feathers, and the upper tail-coverts uniform buff ; sides of head and the 

 under parts generally uniform buff shaded with isabelline on the ear-coverts 

 and crop ; more buff on the tail, which colour extends over the entire outer 

 web and end of the outer feather. Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-4, wing 

 3, tail 1-8, tarsus 06. ? , 2. 97. St. Jago (Alexander). 



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