4. MEEOPOGON. 87 



Adult male. General colour above deep grass-green, wir.g-coverts 

 and quills green like the back, the inner webs of the latter rufescent 

 near the base and dusky at their ends; centre tail-feathers elon- 

 gated, grass-green ; the remainder deep chestnut, with a band of 

 green at the end, the out«r feather green for the whole of the outer 

 web ; crown of head and nape black, extending on the hind neck ; 

 sides of face and ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, sides of neck, and fore 

 neck black ; chest chestnut, this colour pervading the upper breast ; 

 remainder of under surface of bodj- deep fawn-colour or pale chest- 

 nut, with a patch of green on the sides of the upper breast ; under 

 tail-coverts like the abdomen, slightly washed with olive ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries deep fawn-colour ; quills below dusky, 

 fawn-colour along the inner edge : " bill black ; feet dark greyish 

 green ; iris red " {Fall-enslein). Total length 13 inches, culmen 1-9, 

 wing 4-7, tail 4-2, centre tail-feathers 6, tarsus 0-45. 



Hah. West Africa, from Gaboon to the Congo. 



a. Ad. st. Gaboon. Purchased. 



b, c. (S ad. sk. Chiloaugo, Congo {Dr. Luca7i). Shelley Coll. 



4. MEROPOGON. 



Type. 



Meropogon, Bp. Consp. i. p. 1G4 (1850) M. forsteni. 



Pogonomerops, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 132, 

 note (18G0) M. forsteni. 



Range. Confined to Celebes. 



1 . Meropogon forsteni. 



Meropogon forsteni, Bp. Consp. i. p. 164 (1850, ex Temni. MSS.) ; 



Reichenb. Handb., Merop. p. 10 (1852) ; Ttveedd. Tram. Z. S. viii. 



p. 42 (1872) ; Mei/er, J. f. O. 1872, p. 405 ; Guuld, B. Asia, i. 



pi. 39 (1873) ; Meyer, Ibis, 1879, p. 58; Dresser, Monogr. Merop. 



p. 15, pi. 4 (1884). 

 Pogonomerops forsteni, Cab. S^ Heine, Mus. Hein. Th. ii. p. 132, 



note (1860). 

 Merops forsteni, Schl. Mus. Pays-Bas, Merops, p. 8 (1863) ; Meyer, 



J.f. 0.1871, p. 231. 

 Nyctiornis forsteni. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 98, no. 1199 (1869); 



Bruyg. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Bremen, v. p. 49 (1876). 



Adult. General colour bright grass-green, including the wings, 

 the quills having blackish shafts and dusky ends ; centre tail- 

 feathers green with black shafts, the rest of the tail-feathers chests- 

 nut, with narrow greenish edges, more distinct on the two outer 

 ones ; crown of head, sides of face, and ear-coverts, as well as the 

 throat and breast, deep ultramarine ; the occiput, hind neck, and 

 sides of neck dingy maroon- brown ; abdomen dusky blackish, 

 slightly washed with green ; under tail-coverts duU chestnut, with 

 green margins. Total length 13 inches, culmen 19, wing 4'5, tail 

 4-4, centre tail-feathers 6'9, tarsus 0'4. 



Hah. Celebes. 



a. (S ad. sk. Rurukan, Celebes {A, B. Meyer). Tweeddale Coll, 



