m 



17. ANDKOPADUS. 109 



a.\illaric8 yellow ; quills dusky brown, yellow along the inner webs ; 

 "bill black; tarsi and feet dusky; iris tawny" {T. Ay res). Total 

 length 7-1 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-4o, tail 3-6, tarsus 0-9. 



Adult female. Similar in plumage to the male: "bill black; legs 

 horn-colour; iris very pale yellow " (S/(e//t'_y) ; "iris pale green" 

 {T. A)jres). Total length 7'7 inches, culmen O-Go, wing 3-35, tail 

 3-35, tarsus 0-9. 



The Sombre Bulbiil is found in the forests of South Africa, 

 extending from the Knysna district to Natal and the Eastern 

 Transvaal. 



a,b. c? 2 ad. sk. Knysna (C. J. Audersson). R. B. Sharpe, Esij. 



0. Ad. sk. East Loudon {J. C. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



liickard). 



d, e. Ad. sk. Kingwilliamstown. Lieut. H. Trevelyan 



f. cJ ad. sk. Kinawillianistown. Lieut. IL Trevelvan 



(J. Ad. sk. Eland's Post ( T. C. At- K. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



more), 



h. c? ad. sk. Natal. Dr. Gueinzius [C.]. 



i. Ad. sk. Natal {T. Ayres). J. 11. Gurnev, Esq. [P. 



k, I. Ad. sk. Lydenburg. F. A. Ikrratt, Esq. [C. 



m. S ad. sk. Macamac, Jan. 2o, 187-4 J. H. Gm-uev, Esq. [P. 



(T. L. Ai/res). 



n. Ad. St. South Afiica. Dr. Krauss. 



3. Andropadus virens. 



Andropadus latirostris {^ny.), S/n'cId. P. Z. S. 1844, p. 100; Frascr, 



Zool. Ti/p. pi. 35. 

 Andropadus virens, Cass. Pr. P/iilad. Acad. 1857, p. 34 ; Hartl. Oni. 



W.-Afr. p. 2(U ; Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 40 ; Heine. J. f. O. 



18(;.0/p. 140; Ilurtt. J. f. O. lf<01, p. IGO; Grai/, Iland-I. 'li. i. 



p. 270, no. 4054; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 22; id. P. Z. S. 1871, 



p. 009 ; id. Ibis, 1872, p. 69; Eeichen. J.f. O. 1875, pp. 34, 49; id. 



J.f. O. 1877, p. 2-5. 

 Andropadus ervthroptenis, HartJ. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 292 ; id. J.f. O. 



1801, p. 106 ; Gray, Hand-L B. i. p. 276, no. 4058. 



Adult (Gaboon, Du Chaillu). General colour above dull olive- 

 greenish, a little more rusty on the rump, and decidedly more so 

 on the upper tail-coverts ; tail-feathers brown, with olive-greenish 

 margins ; -wing-coverts olive-brown, with olive-greenish edgings like 

 the back ; quills dark sepia-brown, washed with pale olive-greenish on 

 the outer web, lighter towards the ends of the primaries ; the secon- 

 daries washed with reddish brown, especially the innermost, which 

 are almost entirely of the latter colour ; sides of face olive-greenish 

 like the upper parts, the ear-coverts with indistinct olive shaft-lines ; 

 over the eye a scarcely distinguishable line of paler olive from the 

 lores ; cheeks and under surface of body olive-yelloNvish, paler yellow 

 on the centre of the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; sides of breast 

 and Hanks dark olive-green, almost meeting across the breast ; under 

 wing-coverts light olive-yellow ; quills dusky brown below, whitish 

 along the iuner webs ; " bill horn-colour, the lower mandible lightest ; 



