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into liglit ashy brown with somewhat of an ochraceoiis tinge : fore 

 neck and chest slightly mottled with brown centres to the feathers ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries light fawn-buff, except the coverts 

 near the edge of the wing and the lower series, which are dark brown 

 and form a bar ; quills brown below, ashy brown along the edge of 

 the inner web ; " iiis white " (ShcUei/). Total length 9 inches, 

 culmen 1, wing -1-7, tail 4-5, tarsus 1-4. 



Nothing is known of the plumage of the sexes or of that of the 

 young birds. Another Gambian specimen has the chin blackish and 

 the whole throat as well as the fore neck mottled with blackish 

 centres to the feathers. The Fan tee birds are greyer on the throat, 

 and have the cheeks dark ashy and not so black as the Senegambian 

 examijles. 



JIab. West Africa, from Senegambia to the Gold Coast. 



a, b. Ad. St. Senegambia. Governor Randall [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. River Gambia. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(I. Ad. sk. Fantee. R. B. Sharpe, E,-q. 



e. Ad. sk. Fantee {Governor Usslier). R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 



2. Crateropus platycercus. 



Crateropiis platycercus, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 274 (1837) ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 224 (1846J ; Bp. Consp. i."p. 278 (1850) ; Hartl. J. f. 



O. 1854, p. 2.3 ; id. Orn. W. Afr. p. 79 (1857) ; Grat/, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 280, no. 41.]1 (1869); Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p*. 24 (1871); 



Shelley .y Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 291. 

 Tm'dus testaceus, Temin. in Mus. Paris. 



Ischyropodus testaceus, Beichenb. Syst Av. pi. Iv. fig. .3 (1850). 

 'i Crateropus plebeius, Hartl. Oni. W. Afr. p. 79 (1857, nee 



Biipp. ). 



Adult. General colour above brown with indistinct paler edges 

 To the feathers, the mantle rather darker iu the centre of the 

 feathers ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts ashy bi"owu, 

 contrasting with the back ; wing-coverts like the back ; the greater 

 series and the quiUs rather darker brown ; tail-feathers dark brown, 

 with obscure dusky cross bars under certain lights ; head dark 

 brown, decidedly darker than the back and appearing scaly, the 

 feathers being edged with ashy and having black shaft-streaks ; no 

 distinct eyebrow, but the feathers above the eye obscurely tipped 

 with grey ; lores dull white ; car-coverts uniform greyish bro\^u ; 

 checks, throat, and breast light brown, varied with ashy fulvous 

 edgings to the feathers, the chin washed with ashy grey ; remainder 

 of under surface of body uniform light ashy brown somewhat washed 

 w ith ochraceous, the under tail-coverts light ochraceous brown ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries brown, the greater series washed 

 with fawn-colour ; quills brown below, ashy along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 8-7 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 4-1^5, tail 4-1, 

 tarsus 1-4. 



Ilab. Western Africa, from Senegambia to the Gold Coast. 



