114 NECXAKrNIID^. 



ElfBocevthia fraseri, Reichh. Handh. Scansorice, p. 292, no. 682, 



pi. 578. fig. 3934 (1854). 

 Mangusia fiaseri, Bp. Comptes Eendus, 1854, p. 265. 

 Ai-achnotliera fraseri, Gray, Handrl. B. i. p. 113, no. 1399 (1869). 



Bill of Anthothreptes fraseri. 



Adnli male. All the upper parts uniform olivc-grecn ; inner webs 

 of quills brown ; tail and outer webs of quills washed with olive- 

 yellow ; all the imderparts yellowish olive ; pectoral tufts bright 

 orange-red ; edge of wing and under wing-coverts yellow ; bill 

 olive-yellow at base of mandible ; feet olive-green. 



Female. Like the male, but without tufts. 



The following measurements of the male are taken from an 

 apparently fully adult, and perfect male (Gaboon). 



cJ. Cuimen 0-77 inch, wing 2-51, tail 1'6, tarsus 0-65. 



2. „ 0-5 „ „ 2-8, „ 2-4, „ 0-65. (Shelley.) 



Hah. Fernando Po and Gaboon, 



a. c? ad. sk. Fernando Po. L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



6. [ d" ] ad. sk. Gaboon {DuChaillu). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c. Ad. in. spiiit. Gaboon. H. Ansell, Esq. [P.]. 



3. Antliothreptes simplex. 



Nectarinia simplex, <S'. MiiU. Natiiurl. Gesch. Land- en Volkenk. 

 p. 173 (1843); 3Iull. ^- Schl. op. cit. ZooL, Aves, p. G2, pi. 8. fig. 4 

 (1846) ; Grai/, Gen. B. i. p. 98 (1847) ; Lotv, Sarawak, p. 410 

 (1848) ; Bhjth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 225, no. 1362 (1849). 



Nectaiiuia frontalis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv. p. 558 (1845). 



Cinnyris simplex, Bp. C. A. i. p. 408, no. .39 (1850). 



Arachnoraphis simplex, Beichb. Mandh. Scansorice, p. 313, no. 736, 

 pi. 594. fig. 4028 (1854). 



Arachnothera simplex. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. Ill, no. 1370 (1869). 



Arachueclitlira siaiplex, Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 31. 



Araclmophila simplex, Salvad. Ann. 3Ius. Civ. Geneva, v. p. 172 

 (1874) ; Ticeedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 301 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. 

 Genova, xiv. p. 212 (1879). 



Anthreptes simplex, Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 319, no. 232 quart. (1875) ; 

 Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 18; Bri'ujg. Abhandl. Ver. Bremen, v. p. 458 

 (1877) ; Hume i^- Davison, Str. F. -vi. p. 188 (1878) ; Shelley, 

 Monoyr. Nect. p. 309, pi. 100. 



Anthreptes xanthochlora, Hume, torn. cit. p. 320, no. 232 quint. 



Adult male. Forehead metallic green or blue-black ; rest of upper 

 parts olive-green ; wings and tail brownish olive-yellow ; inner 

 margin of remiges, some of the under wing-coverts, chin, and throat 

 silky whitish, this colour gradually changing into the pale whitish 

 or yeUo-nish green of the rest of the underparts ; bill blackish brown. 



