2. ErPRIXODES. 141 



Foot oi Euprinodes flavidus, to show proportions of toes. 

 Range. Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Ends of outer tail-featliers white, the external ones 



entirely white. 

 a'. Breast rufeseent Uke the throat ; upper surface 



dark slate-colour rujiijularis, p. 141. 



b' . Breastvery pale yellowish like the throat : upper 



surface dull olive greenish ; crowu a little more 



ashy olliaceus, p. 142. 



c'. Breast bluish ashy; upper surface also blmsh 



ashy ' sclmtacens, p. 142. 



b. Ends of outer tail-feathers yellow. 



d'- Eyelid blue-grey like tlie adjacent sides of the 

 head ; upper siu:face bright olive-yellow ; ear- 

 coverts blue-gi'ey. 



a". With a black band across the cht>st Jlavidus d" festiv., 



b". No black band on chest, which is yellow. [p. 142. 



a'". Head entirely slaty blue ' Jlavidus $ festiv., 



5'". Forehead and sinciput blue-grey ; hinder [p. 143. 



crown and nape olive-yellow like the 



back '. flavidus S 2 biem., 



e'. Eyelid whitish ; upper surface dusky olive- [p. 143. 



yellow ; ear-coverts dull ashy Jlavocinctus, p. 144. 



1. Euprinodes rufigularis. 



Drynioica rufogularis, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1843, p. 17; id. Aim. ^• 

 Mat/. Xaf. Hist. xii. p. 479 (1843) ; id. Zool. Typ. pi. 42. tig. 1 

 (1849); Grmj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 201, no. 2836 (1869). 



Drynioeca rufogularis, Hartl. Oni. W.-Afi: p. 58 (1857). 



Euprinodes rufogularis, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 38 ; Hartl. 

 J.f. O. 1861, p. 110. 



Drynioterpe rufogularis, Heine, J. f. O. 1859, p. 42G. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above dull slaty brown, 

 with a faint tinge of olive ; wing-coverts like the back ; bastard 

 wing and primary-coverts darker brown ; quills brown, with narrow 

 olive margins ; tail-feathers dusky brown, the two outer feathers 

 pure white, the next one brown along the end of the outer web ; 

 lores fulvescent ; ear-coverts dark slaty grey ; cheeks, throat, and 

 breast pale rufous ; remainder of under surface dull white, some- 

 what washed with ashy on the flanks. Total length 4 inches, 

 culmen 0"6, wing 17, tail 1-6, tarsus <i-7. 



Hah. West Africa. Gaboon and Fernando Po. 



a. Ad. sk. Fernando Po. I.. Fraser, Esq. [C.J. (Type 



of .species.) 



