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Show 1873.] OF THE ETHIOPIAN REGION. 609 Genus 14. COCHLOTHRAUSTES. (Fig. 18, p. 608.) Cochlothraustes, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. iv. Type. p. 74 (1862) c. delalandi. Differs from Sericosomus in form of bill, which approaches that of Centropus. Genus 15. CENTROPUS. Type. Centropus, Illiger, Prodr. Syst. Av. p. 205 (1811). C. eegyptius. Corydonyx, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 294(1819) C.toulou. Fig. 19. Foot of Centropus eegyptius. I defer till another occasion a fuller consideration of this genus, which requires much careful study ; but I believe that it will be possible ultimately to define only one good genus. Genus 3. CEUTHMOCHARES. ( Vide supra, p. 606.) Key to the species. a. Tail green, with slight bluish reflexions 1. australis. b. Tail with purple and violet reflexions 2. aeneus. 1. CEUTHMOCHARES AUSTRALIS, sp. nov. Zanclostomus aeneus, Gurney, Ibis, 1859, p. 248 (lapsu). Zanclostomus eereus, Hartl. Faun. Madag. p. 63 (1861); Kirk, Ibis, 1864, p. 327; Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 247 (1867) ; Schl. & Poll. Faun. Madag. Ois. p. xvi (1868); Gray, Hand-1. B. ii. p. 206 (1870); Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 525 (1870); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 14 (1871). Phcenicophaes eereus, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Cuculi, p. 50 (1864). Adult. Head and hinder part of neck ashy grey, with a slight wash of olive; back dull metallic olive-green, shading into oily green on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts uniform PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1873, No. XXXIX. 39 |