. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 564 ;. Subsp. fi. Tephrocorys anderssoni. Mep^alophonus anderssoni, Tristr. Ih/'x, 1869, p. 434, 1870, p. 444 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 122, no. 7824 (1870) ; Gurneij in Anderss. B. p. 198 (1872). Adult. Similar to T. cincrea, "out having the rufous of tho sides of the breast continued down the sides of the body and over the thighs and vinder tail-coverts ; the outer tail-feather is buffy whitish along the outer web, like T. mficeps. Total length 5-6 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 3*o, tail 2'1, tarsus 0'8. Hah. Damara-Land. a.
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 564 ;. Subsp. fi. Tephrocorys anderssoni. Mep^alophonus anderssoni, Tristr. Ih/'x, 1869, p. 434, 1870, p. 444 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 122, no. 7824 (1870) ; Gurneij in Anderss. B. p. 198 (1872). Adult. Similar to T. cincrea, "out having the rufous of tho sides of the breast continued down the sides of the body and over the thighs and vinder tail-coverts ; the outer tail-feather is buffy whitish along the outer web, like T. mficeps. Total length 5-6 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 3*o, tail 2'1, tarsus 0'8. Hah. Damara-Land. a. Ad. sk. Otjiinl)inque, March 10 (C. /. Andersson). Tweeddale Coll. 9. SPIZOCORYS. Spizocorjs, Simdev. Av. Meth. Tent. p. 55 (187.'3) Type. S. Head of Spizocorys conirostris. Range. South Africa from the Transvaal to Great Namaqua-Land and Ondonga. 1. Spizocorys conirostris. Alauda , Sundev. CEfv. K. Fiirh. Stockh. 1850, p. 99; Bj). Consp. i. p. 244 (1850) ; Graij, Handel. B. ii. p. 118, no. 7757 (1870); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 72 (1871) ; Gurney in Anderss. B. p. 192 (1872); Ayres, Ibis, 1874, p. 103, pi. 3. fig. 1, 1877, p. 345, 1878, p. 410, 1880, p. 104. Coraphites conirostris, Licht. Nomencl. p. 39 (1854). Calandi-clla sp., Socage, Jorn. Lisb. i. p. 152 (1867). Caliindiitis minor {nee Cab.), Boca<je, Jorn. Lish. ii. p. 351 (1869). Spizocorys conirostris, Sundev. Te?it. p. 55 (18/2) ; Sharps, P. Z. S. 1874, p. 631; id. ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 508 (1883). Adult female {typical specimen). Above fulvous brown, the feathers of the head and back blackish down their centres, which are very broad, the margins being sandy, more or less inclined to deeper rufous ; all the plumes of the hind neck, rump, and upper tail-coverts, as well as a few of the dorsal feathers, broadly mar- gined with greyish, producing a distinct ashy appearance; wing-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been dig
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