100 T,AXirB.i-:. 



coverts and tail like the back, but more inclining to greenish orange ; 

 ever}' tail-feather broadly tipped with pale orange, which colour 

 extends on the edge of the inner web almost to the base of the tail ; 

 forehead and the superciliary region bright yellow ; lores, region 

 behind the eye, and ear-coverts black ; chin, cheeks, and the entire 

 under surface of the body bright yellow, the chest washed with 

 orange ; under wing-coverts, axillaries, and inner edge of quills sul- 

 phur-yellow ; under surface of quiUs dark brownish ; thighs yellow ; 

 bill and feet black. Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 3-45, 

 tail 3-5, tarsus 0"95. 



Adult female. Like the male ; but the lores and ear-coverts are grey 

 instead of black, and the yellow of the head extends only over the 

 adjacent part of the forehead. 



Young. Similar to the adult male, but without yellow on the 

 forehead or eyebrow ; underneath very pale yellow, the breast 

 marked with dusky cross bars ; wing-coverts tipped with light 

 yellow, the quills broadly edged and tipped with this colour ; ear- 

 coverts grey, with narrow whitish shaft-streaks. 



Hub. Whole of the Ethiopian region. 



a, b. 5 ad. sk. Africa. F. D. Godman and 0. 



Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 West Africa. Purchased. 



Senegal. 



Eiver Gambia. R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 



River Gambia. Purchased. 



Fantee. F. D. Godman and 0. 



Salvin, Esqrs. [P.]. 

 Fantee ( UssJier). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Accra {Haynes). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



Accra (Smith). R. B. Shai-pe, Esq. 



Cunene river (C J. An- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 dersson). 

 m, n. 5 ad. sk. Tete, Zambesi {Sir J. Livingstone Expedition 



Kirk). [0.]. 



0. S ad. sk. Motloutsi {F. Oates), W. E. & C. G. Gates, 



Oct. 15, 1873. Esqrs. [P.]. 



p. $ juv. sk. South Africa. South- African Museum. 



(Type of M. similis.) 



12. Laniarius rubiginosus. 



L'OHva, Levaill. Ois. dAfr. ii. pi. 75. fig. 2 (nee pi. 75. fig. 1) ; 



Sundev. Krit. Framst., Levaill. p. 32. 

 Malaconotus rubitfinosus, Sundev. (Efcers.K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stochh. 



1850, p. 106 ; Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 534 ; Grill, Zool. Anteckn. p. 10. 

 Laniarius rubiginosus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 359 ; Lai/ard, B. S. Afr. 



p. 164 ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 49 ; Ai/res, Ibis, 1876, p. 430 ; 



Sharpe, ed. Layard B. S. Afr. p. 383. 

 Chlorophoneus rubiginosus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 70. 

 Telephorus rubiginosus, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 398, no. 6046. 



Adult male. General colour above, including the upper tail-coverts 

 and the outer webs of the quills and wing-coverts olive-greon ; 



