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142. CoRAPHITES MELANAUCHEN, Cab. (Plate XXVI.) 
Coraphites melanauchen, Cab. Mus. Hein. 1. p. 124; Heugl. Journ. f. Orn. 1868, p. 219; Finsch & 
Hartl. Vogel Ostafr. p. 469. 
? Pyrrhulalauda crucigera, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 79. no. 313; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no, 449. 
Coraphites nigriceps, Heugl. Fauna d. Roth. Meer. no. 185. 
Pyrrhullauda crucigera, Brehm, Habesch, p. 219. no. 101. 
a-e. 3. Massowah. August 23. 
fg. 2. Massowah. August 23. 
h. <o. River Amba. August 18. 
A well-marked species, distinguished from the nearly allied C. nigriceps, Gould, at 
once by the large black spot on the hind neck, which in all the male specimens in 
Mr. Jesse’s collection is well defined; the white on the forehead is also more restricted, 
and the outer web of the first tail-feather white. The female wants the black neck- 
spot; the head, hind neck, and ear-region is isabelline brown, like the back; the sides 
of the neck, lores, and under parts whitish, washed-with pale brown on the sides and 
breast; feathers of the jugulum and breast with brownish shaft-stripes; otherwise 
similar to the male. 
Dr. Cabanis remarks (Journ. f. Orn. 1868, p. 219, note) that C. nigriceps, Gould, is 
not the same as C. frontalis, Licht. (Bp. Consp. p. 512), and that my C. modesta (Journ. 
f. Orn. 1864, p. 413), from the Canaries, is the female of C. nigriceps. I have not had 
an opportunity of comparing specimens from the west and north-east, but must declare 
that a skin from the Cape Verde Islands (collected by Dr. Dohrn), and therefore 
the true C. nigriceps, Gould, agrees in every respect with the descriptions given by 
Bonaparte and Heuglin of C. frontalis. As regards my C. modesta, based upon a 
single female specimen, it seems that this species is nearer to C. melanauchen than to 
C. nigriceps.—O. F. 
[Common all over the plains from Zoulla to Massowah, but nowhere further inland. 
Seen from early in March to late in August, probably stops all the year in the plains. 
—W. J.) 
Fam. MUSOPHAGID/. 
145. Corus macrourus (Linn.). 
Colius senegalensis, Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 79. no. 318; Heugl. Syst. Uebers. no. 454. 
a. 3. Takonda. May 17 (no. 1412). 
b. 3. Kokai. July 9 (no. 1207). 
c. 6. Mahaber. July 9 (no. 1304). 
d. 3. Mahaber. July 9 (no. 1559). 
e. d. Mahaber. July 9 (no. 1207). 
af Rairo. August 14. 
g. 3. Rairo. August 16 (no. 20). 
