COSSIPHA HUMERALIS.— Smith. 



AvES.— Plate XLVIII.— Male. 



C capite sujira, ccrvicc, regione interscapulari, dorsoque sumnio nigro-grisois, nifo-l)runneo-tinctis ; 

 dorso imo flavo-rufo, oriseo-tincto ; uropygiu, caiuUt tcctricibus superiorihus, rectricibiisque versus 

 basin rufo-auraiitiis, duabiis intcrmcdiis, ajiicibusque reliquorum rubro-brunneis ; superciliis, taenio- 

 laque frontali albis ; capitis et cervicis lateribus, fasciaque pectorali iiiterrupta iiigris ; foscia humerali 

 alba ; subtus alba postice rufo-auraiitio-tincta. 



LoNGiirDO al) apice rostri ad basin caud;c 3 unc. II ;j lin. ; caudse 3 unc. 2 lin. 



Bessonornis humeualis. Smith.* — Reji. of Exped. App. pp. 40, -June 1S36. 



Colour. — The upper parts of the head and the neck, together with the 

 interscapulars and the anterior half of the back blackish grey, with a faint 

 tinge of reddish brown ; the rest of the back, gall-stone yellow, obscured by a 

 tint of grey. The rump, upper tail coverts, and the greater portion of the tail 

 clear deep orange, the two middle feathers of the latter and the tips of the 

 others deep reddish brown. Eye-brows white, and united anteriorly by means of 

 a narrow band of the same colour, which stretches across the forehead. The 

 sides of the head, including the eyes, the feathers at base of upper mandible 

 in front of the white band, the sides of the neck, and a curved blotch on each 

 side of breast, black. The chin, throat, and breast, pure white ; the belly 

 white, with a faint tinge of Dutch-orange ; the flanks and under tail coverts 

 pale Dutch-orange ; the thighs greyish brown, pencilled with dusky white. 

 Lesser wing coverts black, several of those close to shoulders broadly tipped 

 with white; the primary and secondary quill coverts brownish red, a few 

 of the latter broadly edged externally with white, and form with the white 

 which variegates several of the lesser wing coverts an oblique white band on 

 the anterior part of the wing. Quill feathers brown grey, narrowly margined 

 externally with clear greyish white Bill liver-brown ; feet purplish brown ; 

 eyes dark brown. 



Form, &c. — Figure slender ; bill nearly straight, triangular at the base, 



* This bird is too strongly allied to Coss'jpha, as characterised by Vigors, to warrant my continuing to 

 view it as belonging to an independent group. 



