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green, inclining to deep steel-blue on the head, the hind neck 

 purple ; wings black, all the feathers broadly margined with the 

 same steel-green as the back ; tail black, edged with steel-green ; 

 lores velvety black ; cheeks, sides of face, sides of neck, and entire 

 throat and fore neck purplish violet, shading off into rich steel-bhie 

 on the rest of the under surface of the body ; under wing-coverts 

 purplish; "bill and feet black; iris blackish brown"' (^cif/w/iOin). 

 Total length S'o inches, culmen 0'6, wing 3'75, tail 3"6, tarsus 0'8. 



Adult female. General colour above olive-yellowish, brighter on 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts ; head and nape uniform grey ; 

 wing-coverts olive-yellow like the back ; quills brown, externally 

 margined with olive-yellow ; tail-feathers olive, browner on their 

 inner webs, tipped with pale yellow, increasing on the outer web 

 towards the outermost feathers ; lores wliitisli, mottled with dusk}' 

 edges to the feathers, extending a little behind the eye and forming 

 an indistinct eyebrow ; round the eyes a ring of buffy white feathers ; 

 in front of and l)ehind the eye a dusky blackish spot ; ear-coverts 

 dusky brown, with narrow white shaft-lines ; throat buffy white ; 

 rest of the under surface of the body bright yellow, including the 

 under wing- and tail-coverts and the lining of the quills. Total 

 length 7*2 inches, wing 3"S5, tail 3"8, tarsus 0"75. 



Young. Similar to the female, but mottled on the upper surface, 

 the feathers being edged with dull white, before which is a subter- 

 minal bar of brown ; wing-coverts and secondaries tipped with pale 

 yellow and subterminally barred with brown ; throat white ; rest 

 of under surface bright yellow, the breast rather thickly barred 

 across with brown, these bars less numerous on the flanks and under 

 tail-coverts. 



Ohs. The changes of plumage in this species are satisfactorily ex- 

 plained by the series in the British Museum. A bird was sent home 

 by Mr. Blissett to the author as a dissected female of one of the 

 West- African Caterpillar-catchers ; and there is no doubt of its being 

 a female of the present species, as he also sent a 5'oung male 

 changing from the immature plumage (exactly like that of the adult 

 female) to the glossy dress of the male. The feathers being donned 

 on the wing-coverts are not yellow or red, but steel-black, showing 

 that it cannot be referred to any species but C, quiscalina. 



Hah. West Africa ; Gold Coast district. 



«. [ (5 ] ad. sk. Fantee. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(Type of species.) 



b. [(Si ad. sk. Fantee (A. Swanzi/). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



c. [ cJ ] ad. sk. Fantee. Purchased. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Wassaw, March 1872 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



{H. F. missetf). 



e. S juv. sk. Ekraful,Mav 20,1872 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(H. F. Blissett). 

 /".[$] ad., (/. juv.sk. DevLkexa. {Aubinn). R. B. Sharpe. Esq. [P.]. 

 A. [ $ ] ad. sk. Accra. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



