OXYNOTUS RUFIVENTER 227 
Oxynotus rufiventer. 
Oxynotus rufiventer, Swains. Faun. Bor. Amer. B. p. 483 (1831). 
Lalage rufiventer, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv. p. 101 (1879): Shelley, B. 
Afr. i. No. 686 (1896); Manders, Proc. Zool. Soe. 1911, p. 701. 
Lanius ferrugineus (non Gm.) Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. Uranie, p. 96, 
pl. 17 2 (1824) Mawritius. 
Campephaga capensis, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. Beng. p. 191 (1849). 
Oxynotus typicus, Hartl. J. f. O. 1865, p. 160 Mauritius ; Pollen, Ibis, 
1866, p. 278, pl. 7. 
Adult male. Upper parts slaty-grey, slightly paler on the lower back, 
and washed with white on the sides of the forehead and crown; lores and 
ear-coverts more dusky ; wings dusky black with greyer edges to the wing- 
coverts, and with rather narrow incomplete edges to the quills; tail dusky 
black, with clear white ends, broadest on the outer feathers, the centre 
feathers washed at the sides with grey; under parts white, shaded with 
grey on the sides of the throat and chest, and more strongly so on the thighs 
and flanks ; under wing-coverts and nearly the whole basal half of the inner 
webs of the quills white. Iris hazel; bill black; feet slaty-grey with the 
soles apparently yellow. Total length 9 inches, culmen 0:75, wing 4:2, 
tail 4-0, tarsus 0-95. Mauritius (Bewsher), 
Adult female. Upper parts deep rufous brown of a paler and brighter 
rufous on the lower back, upper tail-coverts and edges of the wing-feathers ; 
front and sides of forehead and the lores hoary white, forming an indis- 
tinct. eyebrow which becomes rufous-buff from the eye backwards; on 
the sides of the head there is a dusky patch in front of the eye and the ear- 
coverts are dark brown ; wings dark brown with paler edges to the feathers ; 
under wing-coverts white mottled with rufous; inner webs of quills, with 
the basal portion white slightly tinted with rufous; tail brownish black, 
with rufous-white ends, broadest on the outer feathers, while the inner pair 
are washed with rufous; chin and cheeks white; a broad band under the 
eye and the ear-coverts white, mottled with black; throat, breast, and under 
tail-coverts rich rufous. Bill dusky horn colour, paler on the lower man- 
dible ; feet dark brown, with their soles apparently yellow. Total length 
9°5 inches, culmen 0:8, wing 4°3, tail 4-0, tarsus 1:1. Mauritius (Bewsher). 
Immature. Differs from the last in being much paler ; all the feathers of 
the upper parts with their terminal margins rufous buff; the pale ends of 
the tail-feathers whiter: the white of the chin shading into rufous buff on 
the remainder of the under parts, which are streaked with brown. 
This bird was first made known by MM. Quoy and Gaimard, 
who published in the account of the voyage of the “ Uranie”’ 
