RHODOPHONEUS 391 
the tops of stakes and shrubs to perch on instead of skulking, 
as they do, in the undergrowth, and recognizable at once and 
at a distance by its conspicuous buffy-white breast and upright 
carriage. ‘he stomachs of those examined contained grass- 
hoppers, beetles and dragon-flies.” 
The following examples in the British Museum have been 
examined :— 
Angola—N’Dalla Tondo (Ansorge); Belgian Congo— 
Kambove and Lufupa rivers (Neave), between Baraka and 
Kazongo (Carruthers) ; Nyasaland — Forthill, Zomba and 
Milanji (Whyte), Kikombo and Karungwesi (Sharpe); S. 
Rhodesia — Gazaland (Swynnerton) ; German East Africa— 
Dar-es-Saalam (Emin), Usambara (Kirk); British Hast Africa 
—Lamu (Kirk). 
Genus VI. RHODOPHONEUS. 
Very similar in general structure to J'schagra, with a moderately strong 
black bill; wings rounded and about one inch shorter than the tail. Pri- 
maries 4, 5 and 6 equal and longest; 3 equal to 7; 2 equal to 9, and 1 half 
the length of the longest. Tail slightly graduated, with broad pure white 
ends to the four outer pairs of feathers. Plumage above uniform pale 
brown, with the lower back rosy pink; some rosy pink down the centre of 
the chest, and the upper throat of the same colour in the males, and white in 
the females only. 
Type. 
Rhodophoneus, Heuglin, Orn. N. O.-Afr., p. 462 (1871) . . . FH. cruentus. 
This genus contains three distinguishable forms confined to east and 
north-east Africa. 
KEY TO THE SPECIKS. 
a. Upper throat red (males). 
a+, Sides of crop and body of a more yellowish isabel- 
line shade ; no black gorget. 
a*. Plumage paler; crown only tinged with 
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b?, Plumage darker ; back as well as crown tinged 
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