158 laxiid-t;. 



Adult (type of species). Head, neck, and mantle and upper part 

 of back grey, lighter on the fore part of the crown adjoining the 

 black forehead ; scapulars, lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts 

 olive-green, the latter with brighter yellow tips ; wing-coverts green 

 like the back, with yellow tips to the greater scries ; quills black ou 

 the inner web, olive-green externally, very plainly tipped with yel- 

 low ; tail-feathers olive-green, with broad tips of deep orange, the 

 inner webs of some of the feathers shaded with black : forehead, sides 

 of face, eyebrow, entire throat and chest glossy black ; remainder of 

 under sui'facc bright orange-red, the sides of the body yellowish 

 green ; under wing-coverts and inner lining of the quills bright 

 yellow ; biU black. Total length 7'6 inches, culmen 0*75, wing '6-9, 

 tail 3'S, tarsus 1. 



Hab. Gold Coast. 



a. Ad. sk. Accra. (Capt. Hai/nes). E. B. Sharpe, Esq. (Type 



of species.) 



10. Laniarius nmlticolor. 



Varied Shrike, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. ii. p. 53. 



Laniarius multicolor, Grai^, Gen. B. i. p. 299, pi. 72 ; Bp. Consp. i. 



p. 3G0 ; Cass. Br. Bhilad. Acad. 1855, p. 439 ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 108 ; id. J. f. O. 1861, p. 172 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 48 ; 



Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. G4. 



Adult male (type of species). Head, neck, and mantle light blue- 

 grey ; a frontal line, lores, feathers above and below the eye, and 

 the ear- coverts black ; between this black and the grey is a stripe 

 of white along the forehead and over the eye ; back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts olive-green, as also the wing-coverts ; quills 

 blackish, externally olive-green, edged with yellow along the inner 

 webs ; all the quills tipped with pale yellow on the outer web, the 

 secondaries more broadly ; the innermost of the latter are green, 

 tipped with yellow ; tail olive-green, broadly tipped with orange- 

 yellow, with a subterminal shade of blackish brown ; cheeks, throat, 

 and fore neck scarlet ; the rest of the under surface of the body bright 

 yellow, washed with scarlet on the breast and with orange on the 

 under tail-coverts ; flanks somewhat washed with greenish ; thighs 

 and under wing-coverts yellow ; quills blackish below, internally 

 edged with yellow ; bill black ; feet fleshy brown in the skin. 

 Total length 7*6 inches, culmen 0-75, wing 3-1, tail 3-6, tarsus 1. 



Very old males have the tail tipped with orange-red, and the crown 

 of the head is greyish white, becoming almost pure white near the 

 black of the forehead. 



Adult female (?). Differs from the male in having the throat and 

 chest vermilion instead of scarlet, but chiefly in having the lores and 

 sides of face grey like the mantle, without any black facial mark or 

 appearance of an ej^ebrow. 



Obs. Two other specimens, probably very old birds (one from the 

 Camaroon mountains, the other one from Yancoomassie), are like 



