132 MxrscicAPiD^. 



with black ; cheeks similarly marked ; wing-coverts coloured and 

 spotted like the back, but the spots much deeper, almost golden in 

 colour ; quills blackish, the secondaries plainly edged with buff ; tail 

 blackish, with little buff tips to the feathers : under surface of the body 

 whitish, the Hanks and under tail-coverts tinged with buff, the throat 

 and breast presenting a mottled appearance, owing to the feathers 

 being narrowly edged with grey ; under wing-coverts white, varied 

 with grey near the edge of the wing ; bill black, yellow at the base 

 and gape ; feet dark brown. Total length •i-2 inches, culmen 0-45, 

 wing 2-25, tail 1'65, tarsus 0"5. 



Hah. "Western Africa, Gold-Coast districts and Gaboon. 



«. Ad. sk. Fautee {A. Swanzy). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



h. Juv. sk. Between Denkera and Ash- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



antee, April 20, 1871 



{Aribinn). 



c. Ad. sk. Wassaw, March 1872 {H. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



F. missett). 



d. Ad. sk. Gaboon. Mr. Du Chaillu [C.]. 



G. Alseonax muttui. 



Butalis muttui, Layanl, Ann. X. H. 1854, xiii. p. 127. 



Alseonax terricolor {nee Ilodgs.), Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 441 ; 



Legge, Sir. F. 1875, p. 366. 

 ALseonax flavipes, Legge, Str. F. 1875, p. 367. 



Adult female. General colour above ochraceous brown, duller and 

 more shaded with olive on the head and neck ; the upper tail-coverts 

 rufous ; tail-feathers brown, narrowly edged with rufous-brown on 

 the outer web and with fulvous on the inner one ; wing-coverts dark 

 brown, externally ochraceous brown like the back ; greater wing- 

 coverts and quills dark sepia-brown, externally edged with rufous,' 

 the primaries only narrowly margined ; primary-coverts entirely 

 sepia-brown ; lores, feathers in front of the eye and round the latter 

 dull white ; ear-coverts and sides of face olive-brown like the head, 

 the former with obscure whitish shaft-lines : cheeks light ochre- 

 brown, the fore part mottled with white, the malar line slightly 

 darker brown, very indistinct : throat white, as well as the centre of 

 the breast and abdomen ; the fore neck and sides of breast light 

 ochraceous brown, the flanks pale fawn-butf, as also the thighs ; 

 under tail-coverts whitish, shaded at their tips with fulvous : under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries orange-buff or fawn-colour ; quills dull 

 brown below, edged with fawn-colour along the inner webs ; " bill 

 blackish brown, the lower one fleshy yellow, pale brown at tip ; legs 

 and feet pale yellow ; iris reddish brown " {Legge). Total length 

 5-2 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-85, tail 2-2b, tarsus 0'55. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Ikkade-Barawe Forest, Capt. W. Vincent Legge [P.]. 

 Feb. 13, 1877. 



