422 MR. 11. B. SHARPE ON BIRDS 



Lado." Abhaudl. Nat. Ver. Bremen, Bd. vii. Heft 2, pp. 83-128, 

 Taf. V. 



2. " Zweiter Beitrag," &c. Op. cit., Bd. viii. Heft 1, pp. 183-232, 

 Taf. V. 



Ordol. OSCIJ^SS. 



Series II. LAMINIPLANTAHES. 



Cohors I. CiCHLOMORPHiE. 



Phalanx 2. Brevipennes. 

 Fam. Crateropodin^. 



1. Ckateropus Bohndorpii, sp. n. 



Sassa, November. Iris brown. 



Captain Shelley has given a revision of the species of Crate- 

 ropus in the 'Ibis' for the present year (pp. 46-48), with a 

 " Key to the species" improving on that given in my ' Catalogue' 

 (vol. vii. pp. 469-470). In both our arraugements, however, 

 the present bird finds itself in the yellow-billed section of the 

 genus, in the neighbourhood of C. atripennis and C. Saynesii, 

 which species it resembles in its maroon-coloured under surface. 

 It may be placed in the " Key " as follows : — 



d'. Abdomen marooa-brown. 

 g". Head pearly grey. 



i' ". Throat and fore neck pearly grey atripennis. 



k"'. Throat and fore neck maroon like the rest of the 



under surface Hohndorffii. 



h". Head black Baynesii. 



The following is a description of the type : — 



Adult. Greneral colour above maroon from the nape to the 

 tail-coverts, which are like the back ; wing-coverts and primary- 

 coverts dark ashy, edged with dull maroon ; quills blackish, the 

 primaries dull rufous towards the ends, the secondaries blackish, 

 externally dull maroon ; tail-feathers black, externally washed 

 with dull maroon ; crown of head and nape pearly grey, with 

 lighter tips to the frontal feathers ; lores, feathers below the eye, 

 and a ring round the latter black ; ear-coverts and hinder part 

 of cheeks pearly grey ; fore part of cheeks black ; entire under 

 surface of body dark maroon, the chin black ; under wing-coverts 

 like the breast ; quills dusky below, slightly rufescent along the 

 edge of the inner web. Total length 8"5 inches, culmen 0'85, 

 wing 4-2, tail 3'1, tarsus 135. 



