7. CHEYSOPTILtrS. 



109 



a. $ ad. St. 



b. 2 ad. sk. 



c. c? imm. sk. 



d. 2 ad. sk. 



e. cj ad. sk. 



Z;^. cJad. etjiiv.; 



h, i, k. 5 ad. et 



imm. sk. 

 I. $ ad. sk. 

 m. tS ad. sk. 



n. 2 ad. sk. 



0. c? ad. ; p, q. $ 



ad. sk. 

 r. 2 ad. sk. 

 s. 2 ad. sk. 

 t. ^ imm. sk. 

 u. $ ad. sk. 



West Africa. 



West Africa. 



West Africa. 



Gold Coast {Kirby). 



Fantee. 



Fantee. 



Fantee. 

 Fantee. 



Fantee {H. T. Ussher). 

 Denkera, Jan. 1872 {Blis- 



sett). 

 Wassau (Blissett). 

 Wassau (Blissett). 

 Accra {Haynes). 

 Cameroon mountains, Feb. 

 4, 1871 {Crossley). 



Zoological Society. 

 Purchased. 

 Tweeddale Coll, 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



K. Bowdler Sharpe, 



Esq. [P.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe Coll. 

 SheUey Coll. 

 Sharpe CoU. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



7. CHRYSOPTILUS. 



Type. 



Chrysoptilus, Sivains. Faun. Bor.-Amer. p. 300 



(1831) C. guttatus. 



Chrysopicus (pt.), Bp. Consp. Volucr, Zygod. no. 142 



(1854) C. atricollis. 



Ranrje. South America, south iuto the Argentine liepublic and 

 Chili. 



Kerj to the Sj)ecies. 



A. Underparts spotted. 

 a'. Chm and throat distinctly striped, the 

 entire margins of the feathers being 

 white. 

 a". Shafts of the six central tail-feathers 

 black. 

 a'". Ground-colour of the under sur- 

 face of the body green. [p. HI, 



a'. With red malar stripe melanoclilorus ^ ad., 



¥. Malar region striped black and [p. Ill, 



white melanochlorm $ ad., 



V" . Ground-colour of the under sur- 

 face of the body yellow, or some- 

 times orange on the chest. 

 c*. With a broad black stripe behind 

 the malar region ; chest orange ; 

 rump and upper tail-coverts 

 nearly white. 



a'. With red malar stripe cristatus d ad., p. 112. 



6'. Malar region black, with stripe- 

 like spots of white cristatus $ ad., p. 113. 



c\ Malar region uniform black . . cristatus, juv., p. 113. 



