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tips, before which is a broad black baud ; head like the back ; lores, 

 a band through the eye, and the car-coverts black, with a small 

 streak of pale blue ahove the eye ; throat yellow, separated by a 

 narrow line of blue from a broad black band on the fore neck, this 

 black band surrounded by chestnut on its lower margin ; remainder 

 of under surface of body ruddy fawn-colour, washed with olive- 

 green ; under wing-coverts and quili-lining pale fawn-colour, 

 blackish towards the ends of the latter : " bill black ; tarsi and feet 

 dusky; iris bright crimson" {T. Aip-es). Total length 6'4 inches, 

 culmen 1'2, wing 3'2.5, tail 26, tarsus 0*3o. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. Total length 6-4 inches, 

 culmen 1-1, wing 3-25, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-35. 



Young male. Similar to the adults, but duller ; the throat yel- 

 lowish buff, shading off into a duU green on the fore neck and 

 breast ; abdomen and under tail-coverts buff tinged with green : 

 "bill black; legs dark browji ; iris brown" {T. E. Bucllei/). 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*95, wing 3'1, tail 2-35, tarsus 35. 



Hab. South-eastern Africa from Natal to the Zambesi, and thence 

 to the Zanzibar district on the east coast, and to Angola and the 

 Lower Congo on the west. 



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Port Natal {McKen). 

 Newcastle, Natal {Savile 



Reid). 

 Durban, Natal {Gordge). 

 Puietown, June. July, Nov 



{T. L. Ayres). 

 Pinetown (T. L. Ayres). 

 Transvaal {T. Ayres). 

 Transvaal, Nov. (T. L 



Buckley). 

 Rustenberg, June 1 



Ayres). 

 Rustenberg, June ( W.Lucas) 

 Tati, Matabele-Land, March 



(F. Oates). 

 Makalaka Country {Dr. 



Bradshaw). 

 Tete, Zambesi (Sir J. Kirk). 

 R. Zambesi {Dr. Meller). 

 Slnr6 River, Zambesi. 

 Rovuma River {J. Thompson) 

 Dar-es-Salaam (Sir J. Kirk). 

 Mamboio {Sir J. Kirk). 

 Kabinda, Congo, Aug. 



Malimbe, Congo {L. Petit). 

 Landana {L. Petit). 

 Angola. 



Jardine Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



Seebohm CoU. 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 



(T. Gurney Coll. 



Shelley Coll. 



W. E.' & C. G. Oates, 



Esqrs. [P.], 

 Shelley Coll. 



Livingstone Exped. 

 Tweeddale CoU. 

 Sir J. Kirk [P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Commander Sperling 



[P.]. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Monteiro Coll. 



