. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 262 h. 2 ad. sk. i. Ad. sk. k. cJ ad. sk. I. Ad. sk. MUSC'TCAriD,E. Lydenburg. Lydenburg. Macamac. Macamac. F. A. Barratt, Esq. [CI. F. A. Barratt, Esq. ' F. A. Barratt, Esq. \'C.\. J. H. Gurney, Esq. [P.]. 30. LIOPTILUS. Lioptilus, Cahanis, Mus. Hem. i. p. 88 (1850) Type. L. nigricapillus. Bill and wing of Lioptilus nigricapillus. Range. Confined to South Africa. Key to the Sjjecies. a Head black; back oliTe-brown; sides of neck, sides of face, throat, and breast gi-ey •. nigricapilhis, p. 262. h. Head ashy olive like the back; throat white
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 262 h. 2 ad. sk. i. Ad. sk. k. cJ ad. sk. I. Ad. sk. MUSC'TCAriD,E. Lydenburg. Lydenburg. Macamac. Macamac. F. A. Barratt, Esq. [CI. F. A. Barratt, Esq. ' F. A. Barratt, Esq. \'C.\. J. H. Gurney, Esq. [P.]. 30. LIOPTILUS. Lioptilus, Cahanis, Mus. Hem. i. p. 88 (1850) Type. L. nigricapillus. Bill and wing of Lioptilus nigricapillus. Range. Confined to South Africa. Key to the Sjjecies. a Head black; back oliTe-brown; sides of neck, sides of face, throat, and breast gi-ey •. nigricapilhis, p. 262. h. Head ashy olive like the back; throat white ; breast aiid abdomen greenish ashy oUvascens, p. 263. 1. Lioptilus nigricapillus. Le Merle a calotte noire, Levaill. Ois. d'Afr. iii. p. 48, pi. 108; Sundev. Crit. om Levaill. p. 36. Turdus nigricapillus, Vieill. N. Diet. (TMst. Nat. xx. p. 256; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 219. LioptiliLs nigricapillus, Cab. Mm. Hein. i. p. 88; £p. Consp. i. p. 332 ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 314, no. 4691; Sharps, Cat. Aft: B. p. 43; Barratt, Ibis, 1876, p. 203; Ayres, t. c, p. 428; Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 343, no. .331. Pycnonotiis nigricapillus, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 140. Adult male. Upper surface warm brown, the wing-coverts and quills ashy brown, washed with the same brown as the back ex- ternally, the primaries narrowly margined with whitish; tail dark brown, margined on both webs of the feathers with olivaceous ; crown of head and nape black, the latter slightly shaded with grey ; lores and feathers round the eye black; cheeks and ear-coverts silverj' grey, the sides of the neck, throat, and breast rather darker grey ; the chin blackish ; centre of the breast and abdomen white ; sides of body and thighs fulvous-brown ; under tail-coverts light brown, edged broadly with butfj- white; under wing-coverts yel-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may
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