7. PHYLLERGATES, 229 



colour of the upper tail-coverts, which are deep orange-red, not 

 brick-red. The type of D. pyrrhoptera, lent me by Dr. Peters 

 from the Berlin Museum, is a bird changing from one plumage 

 into the other, and has not yet got the brick-red upper tail-coverts 

 of the old bird. Tail 2-15 inches. 



The type of C. rhodoptem of Shelley is, I think, a young bird : 

 it is dull ashy brown, duskj- on the head and neck, lores and ear- 

 coverts ; the upper tail-coverts are brown like the back. I have now 

 seen six specimens of this species, showing the gradations of plu- 

 mage pretty satisfactorily ; and it is not surprising, seeing how the 

 bird varies, to find that its different changes have been considered 

 to be specific chai'acters. 



Ifab. West Africa, on the Gold Coast. Interior of North-eastern 

 Africa, extending into equatorial Africa and the interior of 

 Zanzibar. 



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



J. Ad. ; c. Juv. sk. Wi\er Yolta. (Ussher). E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



7. PHYLLERGATES. 



Bill of Phyllergates coronatus. 



Range. Mountains of Java and Sumatra. Tenasserim and Burmese 

 hills, extending to the Eastern Himalayas. 



Key to the Species. 

 a. Outer tail-feathers likfi the others, or at most 



minutely tipped with white on the inner web . . cucullatus, p. 229. 

 I. Outer tail-feather with the inner web entirely 



white coronatus, p. 230. 



1. Phyllergates cucullatus. 



Orthotomus cucullatus, Temm. Fl. Cul. iii. pi. 599. fig. 2 (1836) ; 

 Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 162 (1848); Bp. Consp. i. p. 282 (18o0); 

 Moore, P. Z. S. 1854, p. 31 ; Horsf. <$■ Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. 

 Mus. i. p. 315, note (1854) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 195, no. 2684 

 (1869); Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. ll5. 



Adult nude. General colour above olive-green, a little brighter on 

 the rump, the hind neck inclining to ashy brown ; the forehead and 

 fore part of the crown bright orange ; round the eye a tiny ring of 

 Avhitish feathers ; over the eye a narrow streak of bright yellow, 

 forming a narrow eyebrow ; sides of face silky white, the lores as 

 well as the upper and hinder margin of ear-coverts dull greyish like 

 the sides of the neck ; throat and fore neck silky white, the rest of 

 the under surface bright yellow, inclining to white in the centre of 

 the breast ; thighs externally olive, internally yellow like the rest 



