17. ANDKOPADUS, HI 



4. Andropadus curvirostris, 



Aiidropadus curvirostris, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 46 ; Hartl. 

 J. f. O. 18G1, p. 100 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 276, no. 4057 ; Sharpe 

 ^ Bouvier, Bull. Soc. ZooL France, 1877, p. 478. 



AcMt (Camma Eirer, DuCbaillu). General colour above olive- 

 brown, a little more rust}' on the lower back and rump ; upper tail- 

 coverts rufcsccnt brown ; tail dull rufous-brown, lighter along the 

 tip of the outer feathers and along the extreme margin of the inner 

 web ; wings olive-brown like the back, the outer margins to the 

 feathers being a little more yellowish olive ; head rather darker 

 olive-brown than the back, as also the ear-coverts ; cheeks, throat, 

 and under surface of body gcnerallj' light brown, washed with yel- 

 lowish olive, yellower on the abdomen and centre of the breast ; the 

 lower throat, fore neck, and chest dark brown, deepening on the 

 sides of the latter ; under wing-coverts and asillaries light sulphur- 

 yellow ; quills light ashy brown, greyish white along the inner 

 Aveb. Total length 6*8 inches, culmen 0-65, wing 3, tail 2-9, 

 tarsus 0-75. 



The Slender-billed Bulbul is only known from the forests of 

 Gaboon in \Yestern Africa, whence it probably reaches to the Congo ; 

 but the specimen from this locality, determined by M. Bouvier and 

 myself, may prove on a second examination to have been wrongly 

 identified. 



a. Ad. sk. Gaboon. P. B. DuCbaillu, Esq. [C.]. 



5. Andropadus oleagiuus. 



Andropadus insularis, Hartl. Faun. Madaq. p. 44 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. 



i. p. 276, no. 4060. 

 Andropadus oleaginus, Peters, J.f. O. 1868, p. 133. 

 Andropadus bypoxauthus, Sharpe, ed. Zayard's B. S. Afr. p. 205. 



Adult. Above olive-brown with a yellowish tinge, the wings and 

 tail being of the same colour ; lores light yellow, the forehead also 

 slightly shaded with this colour; ear-coverts olive-brown with faint 

 stripes of yellow, the cheeks also yellowish like the under surface ; 

 centre of the body, thighs, edge of the wing, and under wing-coverts 

 yellow ; lower surface of quills yellow along the edge of the inner 

 web; bill and feet black. Total length 7'8 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 

 3-7, tail 3-8, tarsus 0-85. 



Ohs. I have no doubt that the present species ought really to be 

 called A. insularis, Hartl. ; but as this name was given to a bird 

 supposed to be from Madagascar, the name is inappropriate. That 

 of ^1. olta</i)n(S of Peters is generally used as synonymous with A. 

 Jlavcscens, Hartl. : but from the locality (Inhambaue) I believe that 

 it will be found to be the same as the species more recently called by 

 me A. Jn/po.raiit]ti's, which latter name I have suppressed. A letter 

 received from Dr. Eeichcnow, of the Berlin Museum, in reply to my 

 inquiries, confirms the above suppositions, after an examination of 

 Dr. Peters's t}'pe. 



