Compendium der neu beschriebenen Grattungen und Arten. 441 



buff; under wing-coverts tawny; axillaries buffy white; quills below 

 ashy brown; inner edge of quills pale rufous. 



Total length 7. inches ; culmen 0;75 ; wing 2,8 ; tail 3,2 ; tarsus 1,1. 



Hab.: Eastern Africa: Pangani river. 

 •t" 204. Cistothorus alticola. 



0. Salvin und D. Godman, Ibis (5) Vol. 1 p. 204. 



Supra brunneus, pileo immaculato, interscapulio nigricante, 

 plumis singulis medialiter linea albida notatis, alis et cauda fre- 

 quenter sed irregulariter nigro transfasciatis ; subtus albidus, pec- 

 toris lateribus, hypochoiidriis et crisso brunneis; rostro et pedibus 

 corylinis, illius mandibula albicante. Lg. tot. 4,1; al. 1,75; caud. 

 1,7; rostr. a riet. 0,55; tars. 0,65. 



Hab.: Koraima, Guiana Brit. 



Obs.: B. brunneicipiti similis, sed statura minore, colore 

 minus rufescente, fasciis alarum frequentioribus et fasciis caudae 

 irreguUriter disjunctis distinguendus. 



205. Corythocichla n. g. 



R. ß. Shärpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Vol. 7 p. 592. 

 Typus: Turdinus brevicaudatus Blyth. 



206. Cossypha leucosiicta. 



R. B. Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Vol. 7 p. 44 T. 1. 



Adult. General colour above olive-brown, the lower back, 

 rump and upper taii-coverts deep chestnut-red ; scapulars greyish; 

 the wing-coverts black, washed with grey, the outermost of the 

 median series with a distinct white spot; primary-coverts black; 

 quills black, edged with grey, inclining to white on the primaries, 

 the secondaries more olive, and tipped with pale rufous; the base 

 of the outer web of the primaries white forraing a distinct alar 

 speculum ; tail greyish black, tipped with white, the centre feathers 

 washed with olive; over the eye a distinct white streak, surmoun- 

 ted by another blackish line fringing the crown ; ear-coverts grey ; 

 the lores blackish, with a ring of white feathers round the eye ; cheeks 

 and throat white, with a narrow moustachialline of black; rest of 

 under surface reddish fulvous, the ehest and under-tail-coverts white, 

 under wing-coverts white, the edge of the wing black. 



Total length 6,5 inches ; culmen 0,7 ; wing 3,2 ; tail 2,9 ; tarsus 1,1. 



Hab.: West Africa. Accra. 



207. Cossypha 'periculosa. 



Ri B. Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. Vol. 7 p. 40. 

 Similar to C. cyanocamiiter^ but baving the back slaty blackish. 

 Tot. length 6,5 inches; culmeu 0,7, wing 3,35; tail 2,9; tar- 

 sus 1,05. 



Hab. : Gaboon. 



208. Crateropus tenebrosus. 



G. Hartlaub, Journ. Orn. 31 Jahrg. p. 425. 

 Totus fuliginoso-nmbrinus, alis et cauda nitide et saturate 

 fuscis; sincipite subcinerascente; loris nigris; mento albido; gutturis 



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