AFES. 391 



Wing. Tail. ^^^^ Tarsus. 



in. ID. in. in. 



Male, Zulla, Annesley Bay . . 3-05 1-95 0-4 07 

 Female, Massowa 31 1-95 0'41 075 



The outer rectrices in both sexes are isabeUine nearly 

 throughout ; the margins of the second pair and the tips 

 of the remainder are the same, the colour decreasing 

 towards the middle. 



182. P. albifrons (Sund.). 



Coraphites albifrons, Sund. Ofvers. k. Vet. Akad. Forb. 1850, 



p. 127. 

 " F. frontalis, Licht," Bon. Consp. Gen. Av. i. 512. 

 C. nigriceps, Heugl. Joum. f. Om. 1868, p. 218. 



Some of the specimens obtained by me appear to 

 belong to this species, from which the last is but doubt- 

 fully distinct. I cannot find the original description by 

 Lichtenstein, but the species is by Cabanis (" Journ. f. 

 Om." 1868, p. 219, note) said to be distinct from 

 C nigriceps, Gould. This is probably "the case, judging 

 from Gould's description (" Voy. Beadle," Birds, p. 87), in 

 which the C. nigriceps from the Cape Verde Islands is 

 said to have the centre of the back-feathers dark, and 

 a white line on each side of the breast, neither of 

 which characters are found in the East African form : 

 the dimensions of the latter are also slightly larger. 

 Sundevall's name, dated May 1850, has priority over 

 Lichtenstein's if the latter was not published before 

 given to the world in Bonaparte's " Conspectus," as the 

 portion containiag it bears date, August 1850. The 

 name does not occur in the " Verz. d. Doubletten." 



