COSSIPHA HUMERALIS.— Smith. 
Aves— Plate XLYIII Male. 
C. capite supii, cervice, regione interscapulari, dorsoqne summo nigro-griseis, rufo-bmnneo-tinctis ; 
dorso imo flavo-rufo, griseo-tincto ; uropygio, caudas tectricibus superionbus, rectncibusque versus 
basin rufo-aurantiis, duabus intennediis, apicibusquc reliquorum rubro-brunncis j supcrciliis, teenio- 
laque frontali albis ; capitis et cervicis lateribus, fasciaque pectorali interrupts mgns; fascia bumerah 
alba ; snbtus alba posticS rufo-aurantio-tincta. 
Loxgitddo ab apice rostri ad basin caudaa 3 unc. 1 1 3 lin. > caudas 3 unc. 2 lin. 
Bessonoknis humeralis, Smith.* — Rep. of Exped. App. pp. 46, June 1836. 
Colour.— The upper parts of the head and the neck, together with the 
interscapulars and the anterior half of the back blackish grey, with a faint 
tinge of reddish brown ; the rest of the back, gall-stone yellow, obscured by a 
tint of grey. The rump, upper tail coverts, and the greater portion of the tail 
clear deep orange, the two middle feathers of the latter and the tips of the 
others deep reddish brown. Eye-brows white, and united anteriorly by means of 
a narrow band of the same colour, which stretches across the forehead. The 
sides of the head, including the eyes, the feathers at base of upper mandible 
in front of the white band, the sides of the neck, and a curved blotch on each 
side of breast, black. The chin, throat, and breast, pure white ; the belly 
white, with a faint tinge of Dutch-orange; the flanks and under tail coverts 
pale Dutch-orange ; the thighs greyish brown, pencilled with dusky white. 
Lesser wing coverts black, several of those close to shoulders broadly tipped 
with white ; the primary and secondary quill coverts brownish red, a few' 
of the latter broadly edged externally with white, and form with the white 
which variegates several of the lesser wing coverts an oblique white band on 
the anteriorpart of the wing. Quill feathers brown grey, narrowly margined 
externally with clear greyish white Bill liver-brown ; feet purplish brown ; 
e ‘ Figure slender ; bill nearly straight, triangular at the base, 
* This bird is too strongly allied to Cossypha, as characterised by Vigors, to warrant my continuing to 
view it as belonging to an independent group. 
