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Show 1882.] ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF ERYTHROPYGIA. 589 XLV. fig. 2). The type is from Tete ; and the species may be diagnosed as follows. E. similis ~E. paense et cauda rufa insignis, sed fascia alba duplici atari, prcepectore nigro striolato distinguenda. I add a detailed description :- Adult. General colour above sandy rufous, slightly greyer on the head and mantle, more rufous on the lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts; median and greater coverts brown, edged with sandy rufous and tipped with white so as form a double wing-bar ; bastard wing dark brown, edged with white ; primary-coverts and quills dark brown, externally edged with sandy rufous, which is paler and broader on the secondaries ; tail-feathers chestnut, the centre feathers tipped with fulvous, before which is a broad subterminal band of dark brown, this band being broader on all the other feathers, which are tipped with white, the outermost feather being also externally edged with white; lores and feathers round the eye buffy-white, separated from the crown by a narrow line of black, scarcely sufficient to call an eyebrow ; ear-coverts, cheeks, and sides of neck light sandy rufous, the ear-coverts with whitish shaft-lines ; throat and under surface of body white, with a narrow moustachial line of blackish streaks ; fore neck and chest also streaked with blackish ; sides of body and flanks pale sandy rufous : thighs and under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries white; quills brown below, the inner edge ashy whitish. Total length 5*2 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 2*55, tail 2*5, tarsus 0*95. The fourth species is from the Congo region ; and I propose calling it E. ruficauda, sp. n. (Plate X L V . fig. 1.) E. similis E. zambesianae, sed pileo fusco (nee arenario dorso con-colori) distinguenda. Syn. Aedon leucophrys, Sharpe and Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 305 (nee V.). Hab. Malimbe, Congo. Adult. General colour above rusty brown, becoming clear rufous on the lower back and rump; lesser wing-coverts dusky, edged with sandy brown ; median and greater series dusky, tipped with white, forming a double wing-bar ; bastard wing dusky, edged with white; primary-coverts dusky, fringed with fulvous; quills dusky brown, externally rusty brown, whitish at the tips, more broadly so on the secondaries ; primaries with a fulvescent spot at the base ; upper tail-coverts clear rufous like the rump; tail-feathers rufous, broadly tipped with white, with a broad subterminal black band, the two centre feathers not tipped with white, rufous on the inner web and near the shaft on the outer one, dusky brown along the outer web and at the tip ; crown of head, nape, and hind neck more of a dusky ash-brown than the back ; lores and a distinct eyebrow white, reaching from the base of the nostril to above the ear-coverts, and separated |
