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at base, tarsi light bluish. Young 5 Entire under parts ashy, many of the 

 feathers edged with light rufous, under tail coverts pale rufous, upper parts 

 darker ashy, wing coverts and quills edged with pale rufous. Total length 

 about 5^ inches, wing 2|, tail 2\ inches. 



Hab. Camma river, Western Africa. Discovered by Mr. P. B. Duchaillu. 



About the same size as the South African Parisoma, mentioned above, but 

 with the bill thicker and longer. In the young bird the under tail coverts are 

 pale rufous, which color becomes more indistinct, and assumes a fulvous shade 

 in more advanced age. Several specimens from the Camma and Itembo. Sexes 

 alike. 



114. Parisoma olivascens, nobis. 



About the size of the preceding, or slightly larger; bill shorter and thicker, 

 tail rather long. Entire upper parts ashy olive, wings and tail olive brown, 

 quills edged externally with pale yellowish ashy, and internally with white. 

 Throat, and under tail coverts white, breast and abdomen greenish ashy, paler 

 on the latter, under wing coverts white. Fpper mandible bluish corneous, 

 under mandible yellowish white, legs pale colored. Total length 5| inches, 

 wings 2f, tail 2\ inches. 



Hab. Camma river, Western Africa. Discovered by Mr. P. B. Duchaillu. 



This bird is of the same general form as the preceding, but has the bill 

 stronger, and the colors of the plumage are entirely different. The tail in the 

 present bird is greenish brown, the outer feathers more distinctly edged with 

 ashy olive, very nearly uniform with the upper parts of the body. One speci- 

 men only is in the collection from the Camma, and is labelled as a male. Both 

 the species here described have the bills longer and thicker than P. subcaeru- 

 leum. 



Genus Hypodes, nobis. 

 Allied to Parisoma, but with the general form shorter and stronger. Tail 

 short, bill thick, rather wide at base, upper mandible distinctly notched at the 

 tip, bristles at base of the upper mandible distinct, wing moderate or rather 

 long, first quill short, third and fourth longest and nearly equal, legs and feet 

 moderate, or rather slender. Type Eopsaltria cinerea, Cassin. 



115. Hypodes cinerea, (Cassin). 



Eopsaltria cinerea, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Philada. 1856, p. 253. 

 This little bird is allied to the preceding two species, but is generically dis- 

 tinct, and has the tail short, while in those the tail is rather unusually long. 

 In my judgment this bird and Parisoma are not distant relations of Virco and 

 Eopsaltria. 



116. Campephaga nigra, Vieillot. 



Campephaga nigra, Vieill. 



Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afr. iv. pi. 165. 



There is a constant difference in the metallic lustre of different specimens, 

 almost inclining me to the opinion, that they are two species. Both are en- 

 tirely black, and about the same size, but the lustre of one is green, and of the 

 other rich purple and violet. The former is strictly identical with South African 

 specimens in Acad. Coll. 



From the Camma, and formerly from the Muni. 



117. Lobotos Temminckii, Hartlaub? 



Lobotos Temminckii, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 99? 

 Ceblepyris lobatus, Temm. PI. Col. 279, 280 ? 

 A single specimen labelled as a young male, is either this species or an un- 

 described bird. It much resembles the figure of the female given by Temm. in 

 PI. Col. 280, but has the entire head cinereous, darker on the top of the head, 

 lighter and nearly white on the throat. Upper part of body yellowish olive, 

 under parts fine yellow, quills dark brown, edged internally with yellow, tail 

 olive, external feathers with their outer webs yellow. Total length 7f inches. 



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