246 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 



the breast dirty-white;" but Le ^aillant does not allude to 

 this, either in his description or plate. Length, 14" 3'". 



Found, according to Le Vaillant, near the Zwart River ; procured 

 also by Whalberg, but locality not given. I have not yet received it 

 from any of my contributors ; but I procured a specimen answering 

 the description in every particular in Boyana Bay, on the North- West 

 Coast of Madagascar. 



O 485. CeiitrOpUS RufinUS, Cuv. ; Regn. An., t. p. 

 4J 6, and Vol. 2, p. 461 ; Le Goucal Rufin, Le Vail., 

 No. 221 ; Polophilus Rufus, Shaw., Vol. 1, Pi 1, p. 44. 



GENERAL colour, rufous, all the fathers of the superior parts 

 of the body having a dash or streak of light-red, or white ; 

 wings reddish, the last feathers barred with fuscous, as are 

 those of the upper part of the tail ; tail reddish, the two inter- 

 mediate feathers with transverse lines of brown. Length, 11". 



Le Yaillant states he found this species on the " Great Fish River ;" 

 but Sundevall observes that the bird is not now known in Africa ; and 

 suspects that Le Vaillant described his specimen from the young of C. 

 Affinis, of Java, which his plate does not badly represent. Bona- 

 parte, in his Conspectus, gives C. Burchellii, Sw., as a synonym of 

 this, but with a mark of doubt (?). 



486. Centropus Superciliosus ; Ehrenburget 



Riippell, Neue Wirbelthier, p. 56, and Faun, t. 21, f. 1. 



HEAD and back of neck, deep black-brown, the feathers on 

 the latter stiff ; the shaft and part of the plumlets white, 

 margined by an indistinct black line ; a white eyebrow, 

 springing from the nostrils, mingles with these feathers at 

 the back of the head ; back reddish-brown, some of the 

 feathers with white shafts ; rump black, transversely barred 

 with narrow light-brown stripes ; wings bright rufous ; tail 

 glossy brown-green, faintly barred at the base like the rump, 

 and narrowly tipped with white ; under parts fulvous, with 

 white shafts ; flanks and thighs barred with brown ; irides 

 red. Length, 12" 3"' ; wing, 6" 9'" ; tail, 8" 6"'. 



A fine specimen of this bird was sent to me in the flesh, during the 



winter months, from Swellendam, by the Hon'ble E. Southey. Its 



stomach contained insects. It has also been found in JSfatal by Mr. 

 Ayres. 



487. CeiitrOpUS Burchellil, Swains.; An. in 

 Menag., p. 321. 



ABOVE, cinereous ; wings red, beneath whitish ; crown, nape, 

 and ears, black ; feathers of the neck and interscapulars 

 with a central white stripe, margined with black ; rump and 



