-4- 



246 Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe on Birds 



Urobrachya eques, Fischer, J. f. O. 1885, p. 135 (Maurui). 



Coliuspasser eques, Shelley, Ibis, 1888, p. 293 (Kilima- 

 njaro). 



No, 34. (J ad. Kikumbuliu, on the march, Dec. 26, 1888. 

 Nos. 39, 40. S ad. Kikumbuliu, Dec. 29, 1888. 

 Nos. 51, 52. S ? ad. Ulu, Ukarabani, Jan. 7, 1889. 



Drepanoplectes, gen. n. 



Generi Penthetria affine, sed rectricibus latioribus et versus 

 apicem decurvatis distinguendum. 



21. Drepanoplectes jacksoni, sp. n. (Plate V.) 

 Adult male. Entirely black above and below, the head 

 crested and the hind neck with a large frill reaching to the 

 mantle ; the tail-feathers curved and with a ribbed appearance 

 of transverse bars under certain lights ; wings browner than 

 the back, and edged externally with lighter or reddish brown ; 

 bastard-wing and primary-coverts blackish, with an external 

 fringe of light brown ; the inner secondaries black with brown 

 edges ; a shoulder-patch of light olive-brown, the lesser wing- 

 coverts being of this colour, the greater series blackish with 

 tawny buff edges, the greater coverts, bastard- wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills brown, narrowly margined with whity 

 brown, the inner secondaries black with whity-brown mar- 

 gins; under wing-coverts and axillaries deep tawny buffj 

 quills light brown below. Total length 11*5 inches, culmen 

 0-7, wing 3*4, tail 7'0, tarsus 1-15. 



Adult female. Different from the male and resembling a 

 female Penthetria, light brown, streaked with black, the tail 

 round and slightly graduated; no light shoulder-patch, the 

 lesser wing-coverts being like the back ; a distinct eyebrow 

 of tawny buff slightly tinged with orange ; lores and a streak 

 below the eye whitish, with a tinge of orange on the cheeks ; 

 under surface of body light tawny buff, a little washed with 

 orange on the breast, which is streaked with black like the 

 sides of the body ; the centre of the abdomen whitish ; under 

 wing-coverts tawny. Total length 6*4 inches, culmen 0*7, 

 wing 3*5, tail 2*2, tarsus 1*2. 

 No. 122. c? juv. Kikuyu, Oct. 14, 1889. 



