9. CAMAROPTERA. 169 



dusky brown, the inner edges whitish ; " bill blackish, basal half of 

 mandible pale horny ; feet reddish ; iris pale red " {Heucjlin). Total 

 length 4-3 inches, culmeu 0"0, wing 2-25, tail 1-55, tarsus 0"9. 



Young. Differs from the adult in being browner above, with 

 yellowish-olive back and wing-coverts, a little brighter yellow on the 

 outside of the quills ; throat white, scarcely tinged with yellow ; 

 lower throat and fore neck washed with ashy grey and tinged with 

 brown. 



A nestling, apparently of this species, is entirely olive-brown, the 

 head like the back, underneath light yellow from chin to vent. 



Hah. N.E. Africa, from Bogos Land, reaching as far south as 

 Zanzibar ; on the west coast from Senegambia to Loan go, 



a. Imm. sk. Bogos Land {Eder). R. B. Sliarpe, Esq. 



b. Ad. sk. Waliko ( W. Jesse). R. B. Shaipe, Esq. 



c. Ad. sk. INIaragaz ( W. Jesse). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



d. cJ ad. sk. Rayrayguddy, May 30, 1868. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 



e. Juv. sk. Anseba valley, Aug. 6, 1868. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 /. Ad. sk. Bejook, July 15, 1868. W. T. Blanford, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 g. Ad. sk. Gabena Weldt Gonfallon, F. D. Godman and O. 



Aug. 8, 1868 ( W. Jesse). Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 



h. Ad. sk, Abyssinia (Verreuux). R. B. Sliarpe, Esq. 



i. Ad. sk. Casamanze, Senegambia, R. B. Sbarpe, Esq. 



k. Ad., I. Pull. Ashantee. J. Gould, Esq. 



sk. 

 m, n. Ad. sk. River Yolta ( Ussher). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



o. Ad, sk. River Muni. P. B. DuChaillu, Esq. 



[C.]. 

 p. Ad.sk, Gaboon (DuC/im/lu). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



q. Ad. sk. Gaboon. Purchased. 



4, Camaroptera stmdevalli. 



Camaroptera olivacea (7ion J'.), Sunclev. (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork, 

 Siochli. 1850, p. 103; Bjj. Consp. i. p. 1^58 (1850); Grill, ZooL 

 Anteckn. p. 31 (1859) ; Gurney, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 2 ; id. Ihis, 1865, 

 p. 266 ; Bocaye, Juni. Lish. 1870, p. 340, 1874, p. 51 ; Gurney, in 

 Anderss. B. Uani. Ld. p. 94 (1872) ; Sliarpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr, 

 p. 223 (1877). 



Calamodyta olivacea, Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 99 (1867). 



Camaroptera brevicaudata {non Biipp'.), Buckley, Ibis, 1874, p. 393 ; 

 Guriwy, Ibis, 1874, p. 95; Bocaije, Om. Angola, p. 280 (1881). 



Camaroptera sundevalli, Sharpe, J.f. O. 1882, p. 347. 



Adult. Above ashy brown or greyish ; wing-coverts olive-yel- 

 lowish, the quills brown, externally washed with the same olive- 

 yellow as the coverts ; upper tail-coveits slightly washed with olive; 

 tail ashy brown, with obscure dusky vermiculatioiis under certain 

 lights, the outer featliers slightly tipped with whitish ; lores dusky 

 white : feathers above the eye tulvous, scarcely forming an eyebrow ; 

 round the eye a ring of fulvous feathers ; ear-coverts ashy brown, 



