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Bouvier, Bull, Soc. Zool. France^ 1876^ p. 52, Landano; 

 Hartl. Vog. Madag. 1877, p. 272 ; Reichenow, J. f. O. 1877, 

 p. 13, Loango Coast; Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 243, E. Afr. ; 

 Socage, Orn. Angola, 1881, p. 292 ; Sharpe in Oates's 

 Matabele Land, App. B, 1881, p. 322 ; Hartl. Abhandl. nat. 

 Vereins Bremen, vii. 1881, p. 117, Lado; Shelley, P. Z. S. 

 1881, p. 596, Pangani, 1882, p. 359, S.E. Afr. ; Holub & 

 Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. 1882, p. 171 ; Butler, Feilden, & 

 Reid, Zoologist, 1883, p. 338, Natal. 



Male. Front half of the head and the entire throat black ; 

 remainder of the head grey ; back of the neck, back, scapu- 

 lars, inner half of the wing-coverts, innermost secondaries, 

 and tail-coverts pale brown, shading into pearl-grey on the 

 sides of the neck and on the remainder of the wing-coverts ; 

 bastard wing slaty grey, passing into black toAvards the 

 borders of the feathers ; the greater series of wing-coverts 

 also pass into black towards their borders, most distinctly so 

 towards the outer feathers ; primary-coverts and primaries 

 chestnut, with broad black end and partial outer margins ; 

 the outer half of the secondaries with chestnut centres, 

 broadly surrounded with ashy brown, passing gradually on 

 the remainder of the secondaries into pale broAvn, and with 

 narrow partial whitish edges most distinct towards the ends 

 of the outer secondaries ; inner webs of the inner secondaries 

 shading into black on their edges ; a few of the inner greater 

 wing-coverts and largest scapulars have boldly marked steel- 

 blue patches on their outer webs, these blotches are more or 

 less shaded with metallic violet ; just below the centre of the 

 back are two broad bands, more or less distinct, of black, and 

 between them a pale band of brownish buff often fading into 

 white on the sides ; upper tail-coverts broadly edged with 

 black ; tail slaty grey, shading into black towards the ends of 

 the inner six feathers, the outer six with a broad subterminal 

 black band, the end and nearly the entire outer web of the 

 last feather white ; breast white, shaded with grey towards 

 the black of the throat and sides of the body ; under tail- 

 coverts black, with a few of the smaller ones white and some 

 of the intermediate ones with white outer webs ; under 



