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1. Nicator chloris*. 



Tchagra chloris, ie.-js. Traite d'Orn. p. 373 (1831). 



Laniiis chloris, Valenc. Diet. Sc. N. xl. p. 220; Less. Compl. Buff. vii. 



p. 432; Pucher. Arch. 3Ius. vii. p. 325. 

 Laniarius peli. Bp. Consp. i. p. 360; Ilartl. Orn. TF.-^A". pp. 109, 



273; id. J. f. O. 1855, p. 358, 1861, p. 172. 

 Trichophorus chloris, Ilartl. J. f. O. 1854, p. 25. 

 Ixoiiotiis chloris, Bp. C. R. xxxviii. p. 533 (1854). 

 Laniarius lepidus, Cass. Pr. Philad. Acad. 1855, p. 327. 

 Nicntor chloris, Finsch Sf Ilartl. Vd(j. Ostafr. p. 360 (1870); 



Sliarpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 49; id. P. Z. 8. 1871, p. 611 ; Ussher, Ibis, 



1874, p. G4 ; 'Reichmv. J. f. O. 1877, p. 24 ; Boc. Orn. d'Anff. 



pp. 236, 550. 

 Laniarius chloris, Grai/, Iland-l. B. i. p. .396, no. 6014; Sharpe, Ibis, 



1870, p. 55; Cass. Pr. Phi/ad. Acad. 1859, p. 63; Ilartl. J.f. O. 



1861, p. 172. 



Adult. General colour above and head olive-green, more inclining 

 to yellow on the rump and upper tail-coverfcs : wings brown, all the 

 feathers edged with olive and yellow, all the wing-coverts and most 

 of the quills with a whitish-yellow spot at the tip ; tail yellowish 

 green, tipped with brighter yellow ; sides of face olive-yellow, 

 brighter than the head ; round the eye a ring of bright yellow 

 plumes ; lores dingy grey ; in front of the eye a whitish spot ; 

 cheeks and entire under surface of body pale ashy grey, lighter on 

 the throat, and inclining to white on the centre of the abdomen ; 

 flanks olive-yellow ; thighs and under wing- and under taU-coverts 

 bright yellow ; quills below brown, yellow along the inner web ; 

 " bill black ; feet lead-colour " {Hartl.). Total length 8-5 inches, 

 cuhnen 0"85, wing 3*95, tail 4, tarsus I-IS. 



The sexes are alike in plumage. 



Hah. West Africa, from the Gold Coast to Gaboon. 



a, b. Ad. sk. Ashantee. J. Gould, Esq. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Fautee. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



e. Ad. sk. Camaroons mountains, Feb. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



9, 1871 (A. Crossley). 



f. Ad. sk. Gaboon {DuChaillu). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



g. Ad. sk. Gaboon ( Walker). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 h. (^ ad. sk. River Moonda (DiiChailht). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 i. Ad. sk. Gaboon. Purchased. 



2. Nicator vireo. 



Nicator vireo, Cahanis, J. f. O. 1876, p. 333, Taf. ii. ; Reichenow, 

 J.f. O. 1877, p. 24; Sharpe 8f Bouvier, Btdl. Soc. Zool. France, 

 1877, p. 308 ; Bocar/e, Orn. Anf/ola, p. 236, note, & p. 550. 



* Bonaparte never called N. chloris by the generic name of Meristes. The 

 first who did this was Gray, in bis Hand-1. B. i. p. 396, no. 1489, although he 

 quotes it ^'Meristes, Bp. 18.54." 



