170 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the 



and sides of neck white ; a broad pectoral band of cindery 

 black, rather more ashy in shade ; rest of under surface white, 

 the flanks varied with greyish black; under wing-coverts 

 white ; wing black, the quills slightly inclining to brown, the 

 median and inner greater coverts white, as also the margins 

 to the inner secondaries, forming a continuous bar of white 

 down the wing; tail black, the outermost feather white along 

 the outer web at the tip, running round on to the inner web, 

 the two next slightly tipped with white; bill black; feet 

 blackish brown ; iris yellow. Total length 3*5 inches, culmen 

 # 45, wing 1'85, tail 13, tarsus 05. 



Young. Similar to the adult, but browner, and having a 

 few of the feathers on the head and back margined with buffy 

 white. 



Hah. Gaboon. 



Specimens examined. 



Mus. Brit. — a, ad. Gaboon (Verreaux). 

 t. R. B. S. — a,juv. Gaboon ( Verreaux) . 



Genus 3. Lanioturdus. 



Lanioturdus, Waterhouse, App. Alex. Exp. Int. Afr. p. 264 

 (1833) : type L. torquatus. 



Moquinus, Bp. C. R. xlii. p. 820 (1856) : type L. torquatus. 



Lanioturdus torquatus. 



Lanioturdus torquatus, Waterhouse, App. Alex. Exp. Int. 

 Afr. p. 264 (1838); Bocage, Jorn. Acad. Lisb. ii. p. 42 (1868) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 43 (1871). 



Platystira albicauda, Strickl. Contr. Orn. 1852. p. 144. 



Moquinus tandonus, Bp. C. R. xlii. p. 820 (1856). 



Moquinus albicaudus, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1857, 

 p. 52, pi. 5. 



Platystira torquata, Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 329 (1869) ; 

 Gurney in Anderss. B. Dam. Ld. p. 132 (1872). 



Adult male. Head black, including the lores and ear-coverts, 

 the latter produced backwards along the sides of the neck ; 

 forehead and superciliary streak (not extending beyond the 

 eye), cheeks, throat, sides of neck, and a large nuchal patch 



