COLIUS 95 



All the species ate confined to Africa, and three are found 

 within our limits. 



Key of Species. 



A. Lower back white bordered on 



either side by black, upper tail- 

 ' coverts maroon C. capensis, p. 97. 



B. Lower back and rump like the 



rest of the upper surface a 



speckled brown C. striatus, p. 95. 



C. General colour above, greyish- 



green. 



a. Forehead ochre-yellow C. erythromelon, p. 99. 



b. Forehead creamy-white C. erythromelon lacteifrons, p. 100. 



423. Colius striatus. Speckled^ Mouse-bird. 



Colius striatus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i, p. 843 (1788) ; Grill, K. Vet. AJcad. 

 Handl ii, no. 10, p. 45 (1858) [Knysna] ; Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 213 

 [Natal], 1862, p. 157, 1864, p. 359; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 222 

 (1867) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 81 [Durban] ; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 204 [Macamac] ; Sharp e, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. pp. 555, 853 

 (1882-4) ; Butler, Feilden and Beid, Zool. 1882, p. 207 ; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1885, p. 311 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xvii, p. 339 (1892) ; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. i, p. 118 (1896) ; Rendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 174 [Barberton] ; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, p. 515 [Zululand] ; Woodward Bros. Natal B. 

 p. 95 (1899) ; Alexander, Ibis, 1900, p. 104 [Tete] . 



FIG. 33. Colius striatus. x |. 



Le Coliou raye, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. vi, p. 36, pi. 256 (1808). 



" Muis-Vogel " of the Dutch (applied to all the species). " Indhlazi " 



of Natal Zulus (Woodward). 



Description. Adult. General colour above ashy-grey, paler on 

 the head, darker on the rump ; feathers of the head aud back much 

 decomposed and slightly vermiculated, those of the crown elongated 



