112 



263 



Length ad. 18.5 ; wing 14.2 ; tail 7.8 in. ; 

 black, with a chocolate brown shade ; a well- 

 defined spot above and below eye white ; 

 throat and centre of chest white ; chin and a 

 broad streak down throat, as well as sides ot 

 latter, and a few spots on lower parts black. 

 Machcerhamphus alcinus Westerm., Bigd. 

 tot d. Dierk., i., pt. 2, p. 29, pi. 12 (1851). 

 [Malacca, type in Leyd. Mus.] 

 Malacca Pern. 



Malacca. 



Rather smaller ; wing ad. 13.9 ; tail 7.3 in. ; 

 above chocolate brown ; white bases of 

 feathers conspicuous on nape ; above and 

 below eye a broad white line ; throat white, 

 with dark brown moustachial line each side 

 below gape and a faint central streak ; wing 

 quills dark brown, banded with white below ; 

 tail chocolate brown above, banded with 

 pale brown, white below ; under parts white ; 

 upper breast streaked with dark brown, lower 

 breast and flanks dark brown mottled with 

 white ; bill bluish, black at tip ; feet bluish 

 white. 



264. Machcerhamphus anderssoni Gurney, P.Z.S., S.W. Africa, 

 1865, p. 618 [Otjimbinque, Damaraland, type Madagascar, 

 in Norw. Mus.] B. E. Africa, 



Anderson's Pern. Uganda, Brit. 



Centr. Africa. 



[Not seen, doubtful form.] 

 264a. Machcerhamphus [anderssoni] revoili Oust., Somaliland. 

 Bibl. Hautes Etudes, xxxi., art. 10, p. 2 

 (1866). [Somaliland.] 



Gen. LXXX. PERNIS Guv. (1817). 



Size large ; head usually only slightly crested ; bill 

 stouter ; basal plumes not produced beyond 

 posterior margin of nostril ; wings and tail long ; 

 tarsus short, feathered about half way down. 



Wing (J 15.75-16.75; tail 11 in.; plumage 

 variable ; normally above brown, with paler 

 margins and black shaft-stripes ; head ashy 

 grey ; nape mottled with white ; wing quills 

 darker at tips and with 2 basal dark bars, 

 conspicuous on whitish under -side ; upper 



