. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 60. HISTTTRGOPS. 505 The changes of plumage are apparently similar to those of the allied species, but 1 have not yet seen a properly ideiitifietl female of A. capifnlba. In the younr/ bird, according to Dr. A. Reichenow, the iris is brown, feet greyish brown; upper mandible horn-colour, the lower mandible dusky yellow. Hah. West Africa from the Gold Coast to the Congo. a. c? ad. sk. h. S ficl. sk. c, d. S 2 i^d. sk. e. $ ad. sk. /, ri. S ad. sk. /*. $ ad. sk. Gold Coast. Fantee (U-s.^her). Denkera (//. T. Ussher). Coinniendah, Elniiua, June 1872
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 60. HISTTTRGOPS. 505 The changes of plumage are apparently similar to those of the allied species, but 1 have not yet seen a properly ideiitifietl female of A. capifnlba. In the younr/ bird, according to Dr. A. Reichenow, the iris is brown, feet greyish brown; upper mandible horn-colour, the lower mandible dusky yellow. Hah. West Africa from the Gold Coast to the Congo. a. c? ad. sk. h. S ficl. sk. c, d. S 2 i^d. sk. e. $ ad. sk. /, ri. S ad. sk. /*. $ ad. sk. Gold Coast. Fantee (U-s.^her). Denkera (//. T. Ussher). Coinniendah, Elniiua, June 1872 {H. F. Blissett). Accra. Abeokuta. Purchased. Shelley Coll. Sharps Coll. Shai-pe CoU. Sharpe Coll. F. Nicholson, Esq. [P.]. GO. HISTURGOPS. Ilisturgops, Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 67 .. Type. II. Head of Histurffops ruficavda. Range. Interior of East Africa. 1. Histurgops ruficauda. Histurgops ruficauda, Reichen. 0. 1887, p. 67. Adult male. General colour above brown, with dull wliity-brown edges to the feathers, producing a somewhat sealed appearance ; rump washed with cinnamon-rufous ; lesser wiug-coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts darker brown, with whity-brown margins, slightly tinged with rufous ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown, with pale cinnamon-rufous edges, whiter ou the inner secondaries; upper tail-coverts and tail-feathers cinna- mon-rufous with black shafts, the centre feathers dark brown with rufous edges ; crown of head like the back, the edg'es to the feathers a little more ashy ; lores and feathers below the eye dusk}- blackish ; ear-covcrts and cheeks ashy brown, streaked with dusky centres to the feathers ; throat white, the sides ashy, with broad black centres ; remainder of under surface of body ashy whitish, mottled with dark brown centres to the feathers: abdomen isabelliue; sides of body and flanks like the breast; thighs isabelline; under tail-coverts pale isabelline, with chestnut centres to the f
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