16-I- TIMITLlIDiE. 



Adalt. Above greenish j'ellow, with an olivaceous cast ; underneath 

 rich yellow ; head and nape pure ashy ; a blackish streak across the 

 eye ; chin and throat silky white ; quills smoky brown, externally 

 m irgined with greenish yellow, internally towards the base with 

 pale yellow: tail-feathers pale smoky brown, the lateral ones more 

 yellowish, all margined with yellow and tinged below with pale 

 yellow ; upper tail-coverts and under wing-coverts yellow ; bill 

 black ; feet horny buff; iris clear brown. Total length 3"1 inches, 

 bill 4-5, wing 2, tail 1'7, tarsus 0-8. {Heuglin.) 



Hah. North-eastern Africa, extending from Western Abyssinia to 

 the neighbourhood of Lado in E(iuatorial Africa. 



10. Eremomela caniceps. 



Camaroptera caniceps, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 38 Heine, 

 J. f. O. 1859, p. 426; Hartl. J. f. 0. 1861, p. Ill; Heuc/l. Ibis, 

 1869, p. 141. 



Drymoica caniceps, Gra^/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 203, no. 2863 (1869). 



Dryodromas caniceps, Finseh Sf Hartl. Voy. Ostafr. p. 240 (1870) ; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1872, p. 69 ; id. Sf Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 

 1876, p. 306; Bocage, Orn. Angola, pp. 285, 555 (1881). 



Tricholais fiavotorquata, Hartl. P. Z, S. 1880, p. 624 ; id. Abhandl. 

 naturiu. Ver. Bremen, vii. p. 95 (1881). 



Adult. General colour above olive-yellow ; lesser and median wing- 

 coverts like the back ; greater and primary-coverts, bastard wing, 

 and quills dusky brown, externally edged with olive-yellow like the 

 back ; upper tail-coverts like the back ; tail-feathers dusky brown, 

 edo-ed with olive-yellow, the outer ones narrowly fringed at the tip 

 with whitish ; crown of head bluish groy ; lores ashy whitish ; ear- 

 coverts light bluish grey, with faint ashy shaft-lines ; cheeks and 

 throat white ; fore neck and chest bright yellow ; breast and abdomen 

 white, sides of body and flanks more ashy and slightly washed with 

 olive ; thighs olive ; under tail-coverts whitish ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries white, slightly tinged with yellow ; quills below 

 dusky brown, inner edges white. Total length 3'9 inches, culmen 

 0-55, wing 2, tail 1-6, tarsus 0-8. 



Hah. West Africa, from the Gold Coast to the Congo ; also in 

 Central Africa, on the Upper White Nile at Lado. 



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



h. $ ad. sk. Landana, Congo (Z. Petit). M. A. Bouvier. 



11. Eremomela badiceps. 



Sylvia badiceps, Fraser, P. Z. 8. 1842, p. 144 ; Allen 8f Thomps. 



Exped. Niger, ii. p. 495 (1848); Hartl. Beitr. Orn. Westafr. 



p. 22 (1848) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 174 (1848). 

 Stiphrornis armillaris, Temm. MSS. in Mm. Lugd. 

 Stiphrornis badiceps, Hartl. Orn. Westafr. pp. 63, 271 (1857) ; id. 



J.f. O. 1861, p. 112 ; Fimch # Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 240 (1870) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 32 (1871) ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 69 ; Shellei/ 



6r Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 287 ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 58. 

 Camaroptera badiceps, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 39. 



