MUSGIGAPIDJS. 133 



black, the legs and toes very dark brown, with a whitish 

 or lead-coloured tint about the joints. 



[As the descriptions which have been published of this species 

 are not readily accessible to many ornithologists, I transcribe that 

 drawn up by the late Mr. Strickland in Strickland and Sclater^s 

 paper in the ' Contributions to Omithology,' loc. cit., which may 

 be the more desirable as (so far as I am aware) no figure of 

 this bird has as yet been published : — 



" Front pure white, extending laterally as far as the eyes ; 

 crown, lores, and cheeks deep glossy black ; a white spot on the 

 nape, surrounded by black ; back slaty grey ; scapulars black 

 externally, slaty grey within, and obscurely tipped with white ; 

 the middle and greater coverts next the body pure white ; basal 

 third of primaries and the extreme tips of the first three white ; 

 secondaries and tertials black, tipped with white ; the four inner 

 secondaries next the tertials white for one-fourth from the base ; 

 rump and upper tail-feathers thick and downy, cinereous like the 

 back, each feather with an elongate subterminal tear-like spot 

 of black, on the median pair nearly bisected longitudinally by 

 the white shaft ; chin, throat, and sides of neck pure white, 

 below which is a black pectoral coUar ; sides of breast cinereous ; 

 lower wing-covers black ; middle of breast, abdomen, and lower 

 tail-covers pure white ; feathers of the tibiae white at the tips, 

 black at the base j beak and legs black. 



" Total length 5" 3"' ; beak to front 6V", to gape 9'", wide 2^'", 

 high 2'",- wing 3" 5'", median rectrices 1" 8'", external 1" 7'"; 

 tarsus 1" %'". 



" This is the largest species of Platystira I have seen j the 

 beak is stronger and more compressed at the sides than in the 

 other species, the tail shorter in proportion, and the first primary 

 longer, being nearly two-thirds the length of the fourth." — Ed.] 



169. Gampephaga nigra, Yieill. Black Caterpillar-eater. 



VEchenilleur noir, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pi. 165 (male). 

 IJ Echenilh'ur jaune, id. ibid. pi. 164 (female). 



Campephaya nigra, Gurney, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1864, p. 3. 

 „ ,, A-ndersson, ibid. 1864, p. 6. 



