. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 44. TKocuocEUCUs. 299 chin white; eur-covorts light ashy; rest of under surface of body bright yellow, slightly washed with fulvous on the under tail- coverts ; under wing-coverts bright yellow, the greater series white. Total length 87 inches, culmen 0-3, wing 1-75, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-6. Hab. South-eastern Africa. a. Ad. sk. Zambesi, Dr. Livingstone [C.]. (Type of species.) 44. TEOCHOCERCUS. Type. Trochocercus, Cab. Mm. Hein. i. p. 58 (1850) T. / Head of Trochocerciis ci/anomelas, to show crest. Range. Confined to Africa. Key to the
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 44. TKocuocEUCUs. 299 chin white; eur-covorts light ashy; rest of under surface of body bright yellow, slightly washed with fulvous on the under tail- coverts ; under wing-coverts bright yellow, the greater series white. Total length 87 inches, culmen 0-3, wing 1-75, tail 1-9, tarsus 0-6. Hab. South-eastern Africa. a. Ad. sk. Zambesi, Dr. Livingstone [C.]. (Type of species.) 44. TEOCHOCERCUS. Type. Trochocercus, Cab. Mm. Hein. i. p. 58 (1850) T. / Head of Trochocerciis ci/anomelas, to show crest. Range. Confined to Africa. Key to the Species. a. Tail blackish, the feathers edged with gi-ey. a'. Inner greater coverts and inner secondaries pure white, forming a distinct patch; back grey; breast white; sides of body grey ci/anonwlus, p. 299. b'. No white at all on the wing; back glossy bhush black; abdomen light cinereous ." nitens, p. ?>00. b. Tail chestnut, as also the wings; throat and breast gTey, shading oif into white on the abdomen and under tail-coverts borbonicus, p. 302. 1. Trochocercus cyanomelas. Le Gobe-mouche mantele, Levaill. Ois. iVAfr. iv. p. 5, pi. figs. 1,2; Smidev. Oi-it. om Levaill. p. 41. Muscicapa cyanomolas, Vieill. N. Diet, d'ffist. Nat. xxi. p Grill. Zool. Anteckn. p. 26, no. 20. Muscicapa scapularis, Steph. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 112. Tchitrea cyauomelas, Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 200; Layarcl, B. S. Afr p. 14G; Gray, Hancl-l. B. i. p. .3-34, no. 5029. Philontoma cyauomelas, £p. Conap. i. p. 324. Trochocercus cyauomelas. Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 58; Sharpc ed Layards B. S. Afr. p. 354, no. 341. Tchitrea cyauomelfena, Gnrney, Ibis, 18G2, p. .30. Terpsiphone cvanomelas, Finseh ^- Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 312 note • Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 44, no. 413. r , , Adult male. General colour above light grey, with a bluish gloss • x2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration a
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