1856.] 319 



gitudinal stripes of brown and black, under parts dull yellow darker on the 

 sides, wings and tail in some specimens brown, in others black. Bill lighter 

 colored than in the adult, under mandible nearly white. In young plumage 

 this bird might readily be mistaken for a distinct species. 



23. Sycobius malimbcs, (Temminck.) 

 Textor malimbus, Temrn. 

 Malimbus cristatus, Vieill. ( 9 ) 



Sycobius rubricoUus, Sw. An. Menag. p. 306. 



Euplectus rufovelatus, Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. fiOndon, 1842 p. 42 ? Vieill. 

 Ois. Chant, pi. 43. Fras. Zool. Typ. pi. 46 ? 



I have at this moment specimens before me of all known species of Syco- 

 bius as given by late ornithologists, but am not without diffculty in referring a 

 single specimen in the present collection to either of them. It has a large oc- 

 cipital spot or band of bright scarlet extending somewhat to the sides of the 

 neck. Front and cheeks fully including and above the eyes and all other parts 

 of the plumage fine lustrous black. 



The present specimen is exactly of the size of Viellot's figure cited above, but 

 too small for that of Fraser, though in color resembling the head in the second 

 figure of his plate. I have no doubt that it is the bird represented by Vieillot 

 though perhaps not in adult plumage, but I have doubts of its being Fraser's 

 bird, and also of the supposed identity of the two. A fine specimen of ^S*. rufo- 

 velatus now before me is larger, with the bill straighter and thicker, and very 

 nearly as represented in Fraser's plate. 



In the present bird the front to the eyes is lustrous black. I regard it as 

 S. malimbus in a stage of plumage analogous to that represented by Fraser in 

 the second figure of his plate. 



24. Hyphantornis flavigula, Hartlanb. 

 Hyphantornis flavigula, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1845, p. 406. 

 Hyphantornis Grayi, Verreaux Rev. etMag. Zool. 1851, p. 514. 



In numerous specimens received from Mr. DuGhaillu, the above are invariably 

 labelled as males and females of the same species. 



25. CoLiosTRUTHDS MACROURUS, (Gmelin.) 



Loxia macroura, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 845, (1788.) 



Fringilla flavoptera, Vieill. 



Vidua chrysonota, Sw. B. of W. Af. i. p. 178. 

 Buff. PI. Enl. 183, fig. 1. Vieill. Ois. Chant, pi. 41. 



In beautiful plumage. This is the most southern locality that I have ever 

 seen for this species. 



26. CORYTHAIX PERSA, (LinUSBUS.) 



Cuculus persa, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 171, (1766.) 

 Edwards' Birds, pi. 7. 



The species with a crest having red tips. Apparently common in Equatorial 

 Africa. 



27. TocKus FASCIAT0S, (Shaw.) 

 Buceros fasciatus, Shaw. 



Le Vaill. B. of Af. pi. 233. 



Several specimens of the real T. fasciatus, with the second and third feathers 

 of the tail pure white, though the first and those of the middle are black. In 

 the young bird the tips only of the two feathers are white. T. sernifasciatus, 

 Temm. Cabanis' Jour. 1855, p. 35G, is very much like the present bird in young 

 plumage, but a specimen now before me (of T. semifasciatus) from the Rivoli col- 

 lection is considerably larger and has a mature appearance. 



28. TocKus cAMURUS, nobis. 



The smallest known bird of this group. Allied to, and somewhat resembling, 

 T. melanoleucus (Le Vaill. Ois. d'Af. pi. 234). Bill greatly compressed, with a 



