Strickland’s Tephrodornis. 
Tephrodornis ocreatus , Strickland, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 102, 1844. 
Of this bird Mr. Strickland observes, that it approaches sufficiently near to the Indian genus 
Tephrodornis to be classed with it, the only important structural differences being that the acrotarsia 
are entire, and that the tail is slightly rounded. The beak resembles that of T. Indica, but is a 
trifle shorter; the nostrils are concealed by incumbent bristly feathers ; the fourth, fifth, and sixth 
quills are nearly equal, the first three graduated, and the outer toe longer than the inner. 
The crown of the head and cheeks, brownish black; the back and wings, obscure brownish 
grey; wings and tail, brownish black; body beneath, dirty white; the feathers of the throat and 
breast, slightly edged with grey; bill, black ; legs, blue; irides, hazel. 
This bird is unique,—it formed part of my Niger Collection, and is now in the British Museum. 
Habitat, Fernando Po. 
Total length, six inches and three quarters. 
On the accompanying plate is a wild fruit (Ziziplms albens, var.) called by the Mahrattas 
“ Torun.” The stalks and branches are furnished with hooked thorns on either side. The fruit is 
a small stone surrounded by a whitish mealy pulp, size of a small cherry. This tree reaches to the 
height of twelve or fourteen feet generally; but in one instance in the tope of trees at Neelsee, by 
clinging to a Mango tree, it was more than forty feet high. In flower and with ripe fruit in April 
and May. Copied from one of Col. Sykes’ Dukhun drawings. 
