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TIMELIID-E. 



groy edged -with white, whereas in the Camaroons bird they are 

 entirely white. 



Hub. The forest-region of the west coast of Africa from Cama- 

 roons to Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. Gaboon. P. B. DuChailhi, Esq. [C.]. 



6. Ad. sk. Gaboon (DuChailhi). E. B. Sharps, Esq. 



c. Jut. sk. Camaroons Mountains, Feb. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



1, 1871 (A. Crossle;/). 



d. Ad. sk. Camaroons Mountains, Feb. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



i^O, 1871 {A. Crosslej/). 



2. Alethe diademata. 



Bessonornis diademata, £p. Co?isp. i. p. 302 (18.50, ex Temm. MSS, 



in Mas. Luf/cl); Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 265, no. 3878 (1869). 

 Cossypha diademata, Haiti. J. f. O. 185.5, p. 360 ; id. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 78 (1857). 

 Alethe maculicauda, Hartl. J. f. 0. 1861, p. 162 ; Gray, Hand-l. 



B. i. p. 319, no. 4782 (1869); Sharpe, His, 1870, p. 474; id. 



P.Z. -S'._1871, p. 607; id. Cat. Afr. B. p. 20 (1871); Ussher, 



Ibis, 1874, p. 57. 



Adult. Above rufescent olive-brown ; wing-coverts like the back, 

 excepting the outermost of the lesser series, which are ash}- grey near 

 the edge of the wing, the greater series rather darker reddish brown ; 

 quills dark sepia-brown, externally rufous-browu ; tail-feathers black, 

 the outermost one white near the end of the inner web, the next two 

 feathers white at the ends, with a narrow edging of black at the tip ; 

 crown of head chestnut, with the middle of it orange-rufous ; base of 

 forehead and lores dusky ashy ; eyebrow, sides efface, and ear-coverts 

 ashy grey, the latter washed with brown ; cheeks white, mottled 

 with dusky bases to the feathers ; under surface of body white, 

 with slight indications of ashy cross markings on the tips of the 

 feathers of the fore neck and chest ; sides of body and flanks ashy 

 grey ; axillaries and under wing-coverts ashy grey, edged with 

 white ; quills dusky brown below, rather more ashy on the edge of 

 the inner web. Total length 6'5 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-4, 

 tail 2-85, tarsus 1. 



Youwj. Mottled above with round spots of rufous buff, the feathers 

 broadly edged with black ; head similarly coloured but more streaked ; 

 lores, feathers round the eye, and eyelid orange-rufoiis ; throat and 

 abdomen white ; fore neck and chest, as well as sides of bod}', light 

 orange-nifous, mottled with blackish edgings to the feathers. 



Hah. Confined to the forest-countrj' of the Gold Coast. 



a. Ad. sk. Ashantee. J. Gould, Esq. (Type 



of A. macidicauda.) 

 b,c. Ad., rf.Juv.sk. Fantee (GovernorUssher). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 e,f. Juv.sk. Denkera. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



ff. Ad. St. W. Africa. Purchased. 



