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the upper parts, golden green and coppery in positions A and B, dark 

 bluish green in position C ; chin, upper throat, and breast grey, this 

 colour changing into olive-yellowish on the flanks and abdomen ; 

 sides of breast olive-grey; pectoral tufts bright yellow ; the metallic 

 chest separated from the grey breast by a narrow orange band ; 

 under wing-coverts white, with scarcely any yellow. Culmen O'o- 

 0-G inch, wing 2-2-2--i, tail 1-3-1-5, tarsus 0-.5G-0-6. 



Adult female. Like that of A. rectirostris, but with the whole of 

 the under surface, including the throat, dingy yellow, with a slight 

 grey tinge. Wing 2-1 inches. (Ogowe River.) 



Hah. West Africa, from Gaboon to Angola. 



a. S inim. st. W. Africa. L. Fraser, Esq. [C.]. 



(moulting), 



6. c? ad. sk. W. iVfrica. M. Verreaux. 



c. (f ad. sk. W. Africa. M. Verreaux. 



d. tS ad. sk. Gaboon {Du Chaillii). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 e,f. c? ad. sk, Gaboon. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 g. 5 ad. sk. R. Ogowe (Marche). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 h. (S ad. sk. Angola {Monteiro). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



10. Anthothreptes phoenicotis. 



Green Warbler, Brown, Zool. Ill p. 82, pi. 32. fig. 2 (1776). 



Cingalese Warbler, Lath. Gen. Sijn. ii. p. 474 (178.3). 



Yellow-bellied Creeper, Lath. Gen. Si/n. Siipp. i. p. 1.31 (1787). 



Motacilla siugalensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 904 (1788). 



Sylvia singaleusis, Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 53-3 (1790). 



Certhia lepida, Lath. Lid. Orn. i. p. 299, var. /3 (1790). 



Nectailnia phceuicotis, Temm. PL Col. 108. fig. 1, 388. fig. 2 (1824); 



S. Midi. ;§• Schler/. Verh. Nat. Gesch., Aves, p. G3 (1846) ; Loiv, 



Sarawak, p. 410 (1848) ; Llyth, Cat. B. Mm. As. Soc. p. 225 



(1849). 

 Cinnvris phoenicotis, iess. ilfa«. <?'Or?i. ii. p. 38 (1828); id. Traite 



d'brn. i. p. 298 ; Bp. C.A.I p. 408. 

 Anthreptes rectirostris, Bli/th, J. A. S. B. x. p. 92-5 (1841). 

 Anthreptes phcenicotis, Bli/th, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 979 (184.3), xiv. 



p. 557 (1845) ; Shelley, Monogr. Kect. p. 32.5, pi. 105. 

 Nectariuia ciugalensis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 99 (1847) ; Motl. 4'- Dillto. 



Contr. Nat. Jlist. Lahuan, p. 16 (1855) ; Pelzeln, Novara Iteise, 



Vog. i. p. 52 (1865). 

 Chalcoparia cingalensis, Cah. Mus. Llein. i. p. 103, note (18.50) ; Bp. 



C. Lt. xxxix. p. 265 (1854) ; Reichenb. Llandh. Scansor. p. 304, 



pi. 587. figs. 3987-88 (1854) ; Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 86 ; Arm- 

 strong, Str. F. 1876, p. 313. 

 Chalcoparia phojnicotis, Bp. C. Lt. xxxix. p. 265 (1854) ; ILtrsf. i^- 



Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. ii. p. 747 (18.5G) ; 3Ioore, P. Z. S. 



1859, p. 463; Blgth ^' Walden, Cat. Mamm. S; Birds Burma, 



p. 142 (1875) ; Tiveeddale, Ibis, 1877, p. 303. 

 Anthreptes singalensis, Walden, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 543 ; Briigg. Ab- 



handl. Ver. Bremen, v. p. 4-58 (1877) ; Hume, Str. F. 1877, p. 28; 



Oafes, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 326. 

 Promerops singalensis. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. Ill, no. 1364 (1869). 

 Chalcoparia singaleusis, Walden, Ibis, 1870, p. 48; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Civ. Gen.v. p. 180 (1874) ; Hume ^-Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 189; 



Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 90. 



