8. EREMOMELA. lo7 



brownish flesh-colour; iris hrownish jeUow" (Falkenstein). Total 

 length 3-2 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 1-8, tail 0-55, tarsus 0-7. 



Female. Like the male. Total length 2-7 inches, culmen 0-55, 

 wing 1-9, tail 0-6, tarsus 0-65. 



ifab. West Africa, from Gaboon to the Congo. 



a. S ad. sk. Cape Lopez. P. B. DuChaillu, Esq. 



b. $ ad. sk. River Gamma. P. B. DuChaillu, Esq. 



m. 



5. Sylviella flaviventris. 



Sj'lvietta virens, S/iarpe, Ibis, 1872, p. 69 (nee Cass.). 

 Baeocerca flaviventris, Sharpie, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 23, pi. ii. fig. 1. 



Adult (type of species). Above olive-green ; the upper wing- 

 coverts like the back ; quills and tail-feathers brown, margined with 

 olive-green, the primaries externally edged with yellow ; head ashy 

 brown; lores and a distinct eyebrow brownish buff; sides of face 

 brownish buff, the ear-coverts narrowly streaked with white ; cheeks 

 spotted with brown ; entire throat brownish buff; remainder of the 

 body underneath sulphur-yellow ; the vent and under tail-coverts 

 whitish ; sides of body olive-green ; thighs yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts yellow : quills ashy brown below, margined with huffy white 

 along the inner web. Total length 2-9 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 

 1-95, tail 0-7, tarsus 0-65. 



Hab. Gold Coast, West Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Fantee ( Ussher). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. Abrobonko, Fantee ( Ussher) . R. fe. Sharpe, Esq. 



8. EREMOMELA. ^^pg 



Eremomela, Sundev. (Efr. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 



1850, p. 102 E. flaviventris^ 



Bffioscehs, Heine, J. f. O. 1860, p. 1.30 E. badiceps. 



Tricholais, Heufflin, Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 286 (1869) E. elegans. 



Head of Eremomela JJaviventi-u, to show tlie nostril. 

 Kunge. Africa. 



