98 TiMiairD^. 



3. Xenocichla flavignla. 



Trichophorus flavigiila, Cab. Oni. C'eiifralhl. 1880, p. 174. 

 Trichophoriis flavigularis, Haiti. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, \ii. 

 pp. 93, 127. 



Ter)- similar to X. flavkoUis iu size and coloration, and rather to 

 be looked upon as a variety of the latter. The greatest diflerence is 

 to be seen in the pale yellov^- of the throat, -which in X. flavicollis is 

 much more lively and extends further down on the fore neck. The 

 upper parts are more tinged -with greenish, the under parts paler and 

 lighter coloured, with the middle of the abdomen white ; " bill 

 blackish ; iris pearl-colour" (Emin Bey). (Cahanis, 1. c.) 



Schiitts Yellow-throated Bulbul replaces X. favkollis in Angola, 

 and occurs, according to Dr. Hartlaub, in the Upper Nile region, 

 where a specimen was procured by Emin Bey, at Magungo, 2° 14' 

 north of the equator. 



4. Xenocichla olivacea. (Plate VII. fig, 2.) 



Trichophonis olivaceus, Szvains. B. W. Afr. i. p. 264 ; Bp. C'cnsp. i, 



p. 2G2 ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 82. 

 Ciiniger olivaceus, Grmj, Gen. B. i. p. 236 ; Finsch, J. f. O. 1867, 



p. 22 ; Graij, Hand-l. B. i. p. 274, no. 4025. 



Adult. General colour above olive-green, of a slightly yellowish 

 cast, the wings a little diJler olive than the back ; quills dusky 

 brown, externally like the back, the primaries rather yellower on the 

 outer web ; tail olive-brown, greener on the edges of the feathers ; 

 crown of head darker than the rest of the upper surface, being dark 

 slaty brown washed with olive ; lores, feathers round the eye, and a 

 faintly indicated superciliary line greyish white ; ear-coverts dusky 

 brown with yellow shaft-lines; cheeks and throat yellow; remainder 

 of under surface of body olive-green like the back, jellow in the 

 centre of the body and on the under tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries like the breast ; quills dusky brown below, fulvescent 

 along the inner web. Total length 6-6 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 

 3-2, tail 2-9, tarsus 0-8. 



Ohs. Mr. Salviu very kindly showed me the type of Swainson's 

 TncJioplwrus olivaceus, with which one of the Fantee birds in the 

 !J[useum agrees perfectly. The other specimen, however, perhaps a 

 male, has a darker head, of a dnsky brown, only very faintly tinged 

 with olive : in this specimen also the ear-coveits are darker dusky 

 bro-^'n, narrowly streaked with yellow. 



The Yellow- throated Bulbul is found iu the forests of Western 

 Africa from Senegambia to the Gold Coast. 



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



5. Xenocichla tephrolaema. 



Trichophorus tephrolanius, Gray, Ami. Aat. Hist. (3) x. p. 444 

 (1862). 



