ILLUSTRATIONS OF ORNITHOLOGY. 
liar form of the beak, hut by great similarity of colouring, as will be 
evident on comparing the African Telophorus zeylonus (Linn.) or 
Laniarius olivaceus (Shaw) with their Australian representatives. 
“ Crown and sides of head deep black ; chin and throat white, 
below which is a narrow black hand; lower parts, and a band 
across the nape, deep gamboge yellow ; back and scapulars dark 
olive green, with a few obscure narrow transverse bars of black on 
the medial portion of some of the feathers ; wing-covers and remiges 
dusky black, narrowly bordered with olive green ; tail plain dusky 
black ; beak black ; feet flesh colour. 
“Total length, about 7 ; beak to front, 7 ; to gape, 8 |; height 2 £; 
breadth, 2 £; wing, 3 . 8 ; medial and external rectrices, 3.1; tarsus, 
9; hind toe and claw, 6; middle ditto, 8; outer toe about i longer 
than the inner.” — H. E. Strickland. 
92-20 
