LIST OF A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM 
transverse interrupted black bars ; tail fulvous brown, with six or 
seven pale fulvous bars, the shafts golden yellow, the tips black; 
chin and throat white ; breast, belly, and lower tail-covers yellowish- 
white, middle of belly plain ; the other parts with a longitudinally 
ovate tear-like black spot on each feather, those on the breast 
largest, and about i in diameter; beak and feet liorn colour. 
Total length, 8.5 ; beak to front, i .T, to gape, i .3 ; nasal ridge, l 
distant from culmen ; wing, i . 9 ; medial rectrices, 3 , external, 2 . 3 ; 
tarsus, i. 
Near C. benneti (Smith) — ( Picus guttatus , Licht. ; C. variolosa , 
Gray) — but differs in having a stouter beak, smaller spots on the 
breast, and the rump spotted instead of barred. 
77. Camp ether a abingoni, Smith ; (O. smithi, Malherbe, Rev. 
Zool. 1845, p. 403). ? Feathers of front and crown blackish, with 
a round white spot on each ; hind head crimson ; back and wings 
olive, barred and spotted with yellowish-white; rump barred fus- 
cous and greenish-white; remiges fuscous, spotted on both shafts 
with whitish, the shafts golden yellow; rectrices similar, but the 
marginal spots are obscurely fulvous ; ear-covers and stripe down 
sides of neck white ; chin, throat, and upper breast brownish-black, 
with a subterminal roundish white spot, and sometimes a second 
medial one on each feather; lower parts yellowish-white, with a 
conspicuous longitudinal streak of black on each feather, broadest 
on the breast, becoming transverse and heart-shaped on the thighs 
and vent; beak and legs horn colour. 
Total length, 7.5; beak to front, i.i, to gape, i . 3 ; nasal ridge 
nearly 1 distant from culmen; wing, 4-7; tail, 2 . 5 ; tarsus, 8 . 
78. Pceocephalus meyeri (Riipp.), Atl. Nord. Af. pi. H* 
79. Pceocephalus ruppelli (Gray), Proc. Zool. Soc. $ Olive bi own , 
lesser wing-covers, lower wing-covers and tibise, yellow; rump, lover 
belly, upper and lower tail-covers blue. 2 ^e the <5, but wanting 
the blue colour. 
Total length, 8 ; wing, 5.7. 
80. Agapornis roseicollis , Vieill. ; St. Hil. Perroqu. pi. 91. 
81. Columba guinea , Linn. ; Levaill. Ois. Af. pi. 265. 
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