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15. Laniarius quadricolor. 



Laniarius gutturalis, Haiil. Fnitn. West.nfr. Kilstcnl. I860, pp. 27 

 46 {nee jDaiid., nee Miill.) ; id. Oni. IV.'-Afr. p. 108, note. 



Teleplionus guttiu-alis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 70 {nee Dawl.). 



Laniarius quadricolor, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1851, p. 245 ; Sunder. 

 Krit. Framst., Leraill. p. 56 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 210 ; Layard, 

 B. S. Afr. p. 165 ; Fi7iseh ^ Hartl. Voff. Ostafr. p. 355 ; Sharpe, 

 Cat. Afr. £. p. 49 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 77 ; Sharpe, ed. Layard' s 

 B. S.Afr.Y- 381, pi. 11. 



Malaconotus viridis, Licht. Numend. Av. p. 12. 



Pelicinius quadricolor, Bp. C. It. xxxviii. p. 5.34. 



Laniarius gutturalis, var., Bianc. Spec. Zool. Mosamb. fasc. xviii. 

 p. 321. 



Adult male. Crown of the head, hind neck, the whole back and 

 the upper tail-coverts, the outer webs of the wing-coverts, and the 

 quills uniform green ; inner web of quills blackish ; tail deep black 

 above and below, but the basal half of the central pair strongly 

 washed with green ; forehead orange-yellow ; lores and a stripe 

 below the eye and on the lower margin of the green ear-coverts 

 deep black ; this stripe on the sides of the neck passes into a broad 

 and very distinct black crescent on the chest ; chin, cheeks, and the 

 whole throat scarlet ; remainder of the under surface of the body 

 gamboge-yellow, the upper part of the breast and the under tail- 

 coverts washed with orange-red ; sides of breast, flanks, and thighs 

 pale green ; under wing-coverts greenish ; quills below greyish ; 

 " bill black ; legs and claws horny brown " (Flnsch ^ Hartl.). 

 Total length 7"5 inches, eulmen 0*75, wing 3-2, tail 3-5, tarsus 1-1. 



Adult female. All the underparts are green ; the tail uniform 

 olive-green ; the head wanting the black loral and lateral stripes, 

 the black crescent being likewise absent ; throat vermilion ; re- 

 mainder of the underparts of the body olive-yellow ; under tail- 

 coverts dull yellow ; sides of breast and flanks green ; the black 

 collar on the chest of the male is represented merely by a few 

 blackish tips on some of the feathers (not a sign of moulting) ; " bill 

 and feet brown ; lower mandible paler." 



Youw/. The young male is like the adult female ; but the central 

 pair of the tail-feathers and the outer webs of the other pairs are 

 more or less green ; black crescent absent ; throat yellow, with 

 scarlet tips to the feathers, rest of the body below green, more 

 yellow in the middle line. The ^/owncz/emaZe resembles the young 

 male, but has the whole tail olive-green. 



Hah. South-eastern Africa. 



a,b. c? 5 ^^- st- Natal. Purchased. 



e. [ 2 ] juv. sk. Natal. Sir Andrew Smith [P.]. 



d f cT 1 juv. sk. Natal. Purchased. 



e. [5 J juv. sk. Natal. R B. Sharpe, Esq. 



/. cJ ad. sk. Natal. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



g. c? ad. sk. Transvaal (Ay res). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



h. S ad. sk. Island of Mombasa. J. Hildebrandt [C.]. 



