6. EREMOMELA. 165 



Bffioscelis badiceps, Heine, J. f. O. 1860, p. 130. 



Drymoica badiceps, Grmj, Hand-l. B. i. p. 202, no. 2841 (l«69j. 



Adult. General colour above blue-grey : lesser and median wing- 

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

 and quills dusky brown, narrowly fringed with grey, a little more 

 ashy on the outer web of the primaries ; upper tail-coverts duller 

 grey than the back ; tail-feathers brown, slightly washed with ashy 

 and inclining to paler brown at the tips ; crown of head bright 

 chestnut or bay ; occiput and nape grey slightly washed with 

 afous ; lores and a broad streak along the upper edge of the ear- 

 coverts black ; feathers round the eye also black ; rest of ear- 

 coverts, cheeks, and throat yeUoAvish white ; sides of the neck blue- 

 grey like the back ; across the lower throat a broad band of black ; 

 breast and abdomen yellowish white ; sides of breast and flanks 

 ashy grey ; thighs dusky brown ; under tail-coverts greyish white ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries silky white ; quills dusky brown 

 below, inner edges ashy whitish ; bill black. Total length '&b 

 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 2-05, tail 1*5, tarsus 0*65. 



Young, Different from the acMt. Above olive-brown, the head 

 a little more dusky ; wings and tail dull brown ; cheeks, sides of 

 face, and under surface of body bright sulphur-yellow, more ashy on 

 the sides of the body. One specimen in the Museum is beginning 

 to assume the rufous head. 



Hub. West Africa, from the Gold Coast to Gaboon. 



fl, b. Ad. ; c. Juv. sk. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. 



d, e, f. Ad.; (/, h. Juv. sk. Fantee (Auhnn). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



i. Ad. sk. ' Fantee (Uss/ie?-). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



12. Eremomela nigriceps. 



Dryodromas nigriceps, S/iellej/, Ibis, 1873, p. 139. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above bright olive-yellow ; 

 lesser and median wing-coverts like the back ; greater coverts dusky, 

 externally olive-yellow ; bastard wing and primary-coverts black ; 

 primary quills black, externally margined with slate-colour, the 

 secondaries externally olive-yellow like the back ; upper tail-coverts 

 and tail-feathers slaty grey, the latter obscurely barred with dusky 

 under certain lights and rather dusky towards the ends, all tipped 

 with white, increasing in extent towards the outermost, where it 

 extends a good way up the outer web ; crown of head slaty black ; 

 hind neck brighter yellow, as also the sides of the neck ; lores, 

 feathers round the eye, and car-coverts slaty black ; throat and 

 under surface white ; sides of breast and flanks yellow ; thighs 

 white ; under tail-coverts white ; under wing-coverts white ; axil- 

 laries yellow ; quills blackish below, inner edges white ; " bill black ; 

 tarsi and feet brownish flesh-colour ; iris hazel " ( G. E. IShelJey). 

 Total length 3-5 inches, culmen 0*45, wing 1*8, tail 1"5, tarsus 0-65. 

 (_J/((S. G. E.Shelhi/.) 



Hah. Aguapim, West Africa. 



