14. PHOIIDOEOTB. 77 



Key to the Species. 



a. Smaller; wing 1 "8 inch: head ashy striped -with 



blackish brown rushiep, p. 77. 



b. Larger ; wing 2 inches : forehead bright red rubrifrons, p. 77. 



1. Pholidornis rusMsB. 



Dicseum rushise, Cass. P)-oc. Philad. Acad. 1855, p. 55 ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 116, no. 1439 (1869). 

 Pholidornis rushite, Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 54 (1857) ; Cass. Proc. 



Phi/ad. Acad. 1858, pi. i. fig. 1 ; Jlartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 110 ; 



Sharps, Ibis, 1872, p. 70 ; Ussker, Ibis, 1874, p. 60. 



Adult. Above particolotired. Mantle and upper back as well as 

 the scapulars brown with blackish centres, the feathers edged with 

 olive-yellowish ; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts clearer 

 olive-yellow ; wing-coverts and quills dull brown, narrowly edged 

 with olive-yeUow ; tail-feathers black, with olive-yellow margins ; 

 head ashy, with broad longitudinal centres to the feathers of blackish 

 brown, continued on to the hind neck, which is browner, the whole 

 having a thickly striped appearance ; lores fulvescent ; sides of face, 

 sides of neck, throat, and chest ashy whitish, clearer than the head 

 and less distinctly striped, the mesial streaks being narrower : 

 the breast similarlj^ streaked, but more ashy ; remainder of under 

 surface of body oUve-yellow, with slight indications of dusky streaks, 

 a little plainer on the flanks ; axillaries and under wing-coverts 

 white, washed with oUve-yeUow, especially near the edge of the 

 wing; quiUs dusky brown below, whitish along the edge of the 

 inner web. Total length 2-75 inches, culmen 0-35, wing 1-8, tail 

 0'95, tarsus 0"5. 



H((b. West Africa from Gaboon to the Gold Coast. 



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



6. Ad. sk. Denkera (Ussher). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



2. Pholidornis rubrifrons. (Plate II. fig. 1.) 

 Pholidornis rubrifi'ons, Sharpe ^ Ussher, Ibis, 1872, p. 182. 



Adult male. General colour above dusky olive-brown, the hinder 

 part of the head and wing-coverts margined with ochraceous ; the 

 feathers of the back obsoletely margined with olivaceous ; quills and 

 tail-feathers dusky externally, edged with olivaceous ; forehead 

 bright crimson ; sides of the face uniform with the crown, but dis- 

 tinctly spotted with fulvous ; under surface of body entirely chest- 

 nut ; bill black ; feet yellow. Total length 4 inches, culmen 0-45, 

 wing 2, tail 1-55, tarsus 0-65. 



Adult female. Entirely different from the male; above brown, 

 the feathers indistinctly margined with ochraceous ; forehead a 

 little tinged with rufous ; underneath creamy white, everywhere 

 spotted with brown at the tips of the feathers. 



