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coverts black ; bill and feet red, fading to yellow in skin. Total 

 length 8-3 inches, culmen 0-85, wing 4-65, tail 3-45, tarsus 0-85. 



Young. Diflers from the adult in being greyish black above, with 

 whitish lores, and streaks on the forehead ; throat and sides of face 

 light tawny bufF, with greyish edgings to the ear-coverts ; outer 

 tail-eoverts rather pointed, and having a fulvous tip to the outer 

 web ; on the inner web of the quills the same white bar as in the 

 adult. This latter character seems to vary, insomuch that it is 

 sometimes absent on the first primary. 



Ilab. Gold-Coast district of Western Africa, ranging up to Sierra 

 Leone. 



a. Ad. St. Gold Coast. Purchased. 



b. Juv. sk. Fantee. A. Swanzy, Esq. [P.]. 



f, f7. Ad., e. Jiiv. sk. Fantee (Goy. Ussher). R. B. Sbaipe, Esq. 

 /. Imm.sk. Denkera (G-'oi'. Ussher). R. B. Sharps, Esq. 



g. Ad. sk. Sierra Leone {Dr. Clark). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



3. Sigmodus scopifrons. 



Sigmodus scopifrons, Peters, J. f. O. 1854, p. 422 ; Hartl. Orn. W.- 



Afr. p. lOo, note. 

 Priouops scopifrons, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 395 ; Fiusch 8)- Hartl. 



Vog. Ostafr. p. 368; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 455, note. 



Adult. Above slaty blackish; underneath slate- colour ; a crest on 

 the forehead or^ge-buff; two centre tail-feathers uniform, the 

 outer ones white at the tip and on the outer edge, the rest only 

 white at the tip ; vent and under tail-coverts pure white ; lower 

 abdomen faintly varied with slate-colour and white ; quills marked 

 on the inner web with rather a large spot of white ; under wing- 

 coverts ashy grey ; bill and feet coral-red. Total length 6-5 inches, 

 wing 3-8, tail 2-5, tarsus 0-8. (Finsch 6f Hartlauh.) 



Hah. Mozambique. 



4. Sigmodus retzii. 



Prionops retzii, Wahlb. Oefv.K. Vet. Akad. Fork. Sfock7i.l856, ^.174; 

 id. J.f. O. 1857, p. 1 ; Anderss. P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 5 ; Gurney, t. c. 

 p. 3 ; id. in Ander.'is. B. Dam. Ld. p. 142 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. 

 p. 50 ; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. i. p. 344, 1874, pp. 7, 24, 1876, p. 7. 



Adidt male. Above dull ashy brown, the wing-coverts similar to 

 the back, the greater series rather duller brown ; primary-coverts 

 and quills black with a slight greenish gloss, the inner secondaries 

 externally ashy brown like the back; upper tail-coverts and tail 

 black, the latter tipped with white, more broadly on the outer 

 feathers ; entire head and neck all round, as well as the whole of 

 the under surface of the body, blue-black, the vent and under tail- 

 coverts white ; under wing-coverts black, the quills also grejish 

 black below, the primaries barred with white on the inner web ; 

 round the eye a " wattle of orange-red ;■ bill orange-red, paling off 

 toM ards the extremity ; logs pale orange, toes yellowish : iris light 



