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1. Neolestes torquatus. 



Neolestes torquatus, Cab. J.f. 0. 1875, p. 237, pi. i. fig. 1 ; Sharpe 

 ^- liouvier, Bttll. Soc. Zool. France, 1870, p. 308; Beichnw. J. f. O. 

 1877, p. 24 J Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 236. 



Adult. General colour above olive-green, the wing-coverts like the 

 back, the edge of the -wing bright yellow ; quiUs dusky brown, ex- 

 ternally margined with olive-yellow ; tail-feathers brown, washed 

 with dull olive ; head and hind neck ashy grey, washed with 

 yellow ; lores and a streak running down the sides of the head 

 blue-black ; sides of face and under surface dull white, washed with 

 yellow ; across the breast a broad band of blue-black colour run- 

 ning along the sides of the neck ; sides of the body washed with 

 ashy grey ; under tail-coverts dusky fawn-brown : thighs olive- 

 brown ; quills dusky below, edged with pale fawn-colour along the 

 inner web : under wing-coverts fawn-colour, washed with yellow ; 

 "bill and feet dark'' (Ca^aju's). Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 

 0-57, wing 2"7, tail 2-4, tarsus 0"S. 



Hah. Congo district in "NVestern Africa. 



a. Ad. sk. Landana Congo. Dr. Lucan fC. 1. 



