1882.] ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF ERYTHROPYGIA. 589 



XLV. fig. 2). The type is from Tete ; and the species may be 

 diagnosed as follows. 



E. similis^. paenae et cauda rufa insignis, sed fascia alba duplici 

 alari, prcepectore nigro striolato distiriguenda. 



I add a detailed description : — 



Adult. General colour above sandy rufous, slightly greyer on the 

 head and mantle, more rufous on the lower back, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts ; median and greater coverts brown, edged with sandy 

 rufous and tipped with white so as form a double wing-bar ; bastard 

 wing dark brown, edged with white ; primary-coverts and quills dark 

 brown, externally edged with sandy rufous, which is paler and broader 

 on the secondaries ; tail-feathers chestnut, the centre feathers tipped 

 with fulvous-, before which is a broad subterminal band of dark 

 brown, this band being broader on all the other feathers, which are 

 tipped with white, the outermost feather being also externally edged 

 with white ; lores and feathers round the eye buffy-white, separated 

 from the crown by a narrow line of black, scarcely sufficient to call 

 an eyebrow ; ear-coverts, cheeks, and sides of neck light sandy rufous, 

 the ear-coverts with whitish shaft-lines ; throat and under surface 

 of body white, with a narrow moustachial line of blackish streaks ; 

 fore neck and chest also streaked with blackish ; sides of body and 

 flanks pale sandy rufous : thighs and under tail-coverts white ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries white ; quills brown below, the 

 inner edge ashy whitish. Total length 5'2 inches, culmen 0*7, 

 wing 2*55, tail 2*5, tarsus 0"95. 



The fourth species is from the Congo region ; and I propose calling 

 it E. ruficauda, sp. n. (Plate XLV. fig. 1.) 



E. similis E. zambesianse, sed pileo fusco {nee arenario dorso con- 

 colori) distinguenda. 



Syn. Aedon leucophrys, Sharpe and Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, 18/6, p. 305 (nee V.). 



Hab. Malimbe, Congo. 



Adult. General colour above rusty brown, becoming clear rufous 

 on the lower back and rump ; lesser wing-coverts dusky, edged with 

 sandy brown ; median and greater series dusky, tipped with white, 

 forming a double wing-bar ; bastard wing dusky, edged with white ; 

 primary-coverts d usky, fringed with fulvous ; quills d usky brown, exter- 

 nally rusty brown, whitish at the tips, more broadly so on the secon- 

 daries ; primaries with a fulvescent spot at the base ; upper tail- 

 coverts clear rufous like the rump ; tail-feathers rufous, broadly tipped 

 with white, with a broad subterminal black band, the two centre 

 feathers not tipped with white, rufous on the inner web and near 

 the shaft on the outer one, dusky brown along the outer web and at 

 the tip ; crowu of head, nape, and hind neck more of a dusky ash- 

 brown than the back ; lores and a distinct eyebrow white, reaching 

 from the base of the nostril to above the ear-coverts, and separated 



