10. XENOCICHLA. 103 



b. Ad. sk. River Gambia. Piircliased. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Deukera, Fautee. Andi-ew Swanzy, Esq. [P.]. 



11. Xenocichla albigularis. (Plate VII. fig. 1.) 



Adult. General colour above dull olive-green, the wing-coverts 

 slightly more olive-brown than the back ; quills dusky brown, ex- 

 ternally olive-green, more yellow on the outer webs of the primaries ; 

 upper tail-coverts and tail brown, washed with olive on the outer 

 webs ; head light slaty grey, faintly washed with ohve ; lores and 

 feathers round the eye, as well as a faiut indication of an ej-ebrow, 

 greyish white ; ear-coverts light slatj- grey, with whitish shaft- 

 lines ; checks greyish white ; throat white ; under surface of body 

 pale yellow, the breast washed with grey, the sides washed with 

 olive-green ; under wing-coverts and axillaries light yellow, washed 

 with olive near the edge of the wing ; quills dull brown below, 

 yellowish buff along the edge of the inner web. Total length 5-S 

 inches, culmen 07, wing 2-7, tail 2-4, tarsus 0'75. 



Usshcr's Bulbul is as yet only known from the forests in the 

 interior of the Gold Coast. 



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



12. Xenocichla indicator. 



Criniger indicator, J. S,- E. Verr. J. f. O. 1855, vol. iii. p. lOo ; Finsch, 

 J. f. O. 18i37, p. 3.3 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 187 ; Grai/, Hand-l. B. 

 i. p. 274, no. 40:35 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 22. 



Trichophorus leucurus, Cass. Pr. Phi/ad. Acad. 1855, p. 328. 



Trichophorus indicator, Hartl.Orn. W.-Afr. p. 84; id. J.f. O. 18G1, 

 p. 165. 



Hemixus indicator, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 45. 



Bfeopogon indicator, Heine, J.f. O. 18G0, p. 139. 



Adult. General colour above duU olive-green, the wing-coverts 

 like the back, the quills dark brown, externally olive-green, the 

 secondaries almost entirely of the latter colour ; four centre tail- 

 feathers dark brown, ihe rest dark brown, excepting on the outer 

 web, which is more than half yellowish white, brown only at the 

 base and at the tip ; the three outer tail-feathers white, slightly 

 washed with yellow, and having a blackish-brown spot at the ti]), 

 with an obscure basal mark of brown also ; head olive-green, a 

 little duller than the back ; lores and sides of face dusky ash-grey, 

 as also the throat and under surface of body; the fore neck, breast, 

 and sides of the body washed with olive-yellow ; ear-coverts also 

 washed with olive-yeilow, the shaft-streaks paler ; lower abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts brownish white ; under wing-covcrts and 

 axillaries dull olive-yellow, light brown at the base ; greater series 

 light ashy brown, like the inner edge of the quills. Total length 

 8 inches, culmen 0-7">, wing 3-9, tail 3, tarsus O'S. 



The Honey-Guide Bulbul inhabits the forests of West Africa, 

 from the Gold Coast to Gaboon. 



