304 PLOCEID^. 



Adult (type of species). General colour above olive-yellow, the 

 scapulars and wing-coverts like the back ; bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills dusky brown, externally olive-yellow, brighter on 

 the primaries, the inner secondaries entircl)' olive-j'ellow like the 

 back : tali-feathers olive-yellow, the inner webs dusky brown 

 towards the base ; crown of head and hind neck light grey, the base 

 of the forehead, lores, eyebrow, sides of face, ear-coverts, and cheeks 

 white ; throat black, extending up behind the ear-coverts ; sides of 

 neck and uuder surface of body light grey ; the abdomen slightly 

 washed with olive-yellow ; sides of body and flanks bright golden 

 yellow, more brilliant on the sides of the breast ; thighs and under 

 tail-coverts ashy, washed with olive-yellow ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries isabelline, washed with yellow near the edge of the 

 wing : quills below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 

 4-2 inches, culmen O'-l, wing 2-3, tail 1'9, tarsus O-Go. 



An example from the Gambia is much duller in colour and has the 

 ear-coverts blue-grey like the head, leaving the cheeks greyish 

 white ; the yellow on the sides of the body is not nearly so brilliant. 

 This may be the adult female. 



Hah. West Africa, from Senegambia to Dahomey. 



a. Ad. sk. Abeokuta (i^ Rohin). F. Nicholson, Esq 



(Type of species.) 



b. Ad. sk. River Gambia. Purchased. 



6. Pytelia schlegeli. 



Pytelia schlegeli, SharjJe, Ibis, 1870, p. 482, pi. xiv. figs, 2, 3 ; 

 Oust. N. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. p. 112 (1879); Bnttik. Notes Leijden 

 Mus. vii. p. 201 (1885) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 319. 



Ad.idt male (type of species). General colour above olive-green, 

 golden brown on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; sides of face and 

 chin crimson ; throat and upper part of breast orange-brown, tinged 

 with crimson ; sides of neck like the back ; quills brown, externally 

 like the back, the secondaries almost entirely olive-green ; tail- 

 feathers olive-green, blackish internally ; breast and remainder of 

 under surface blackish, slightly washed with olive-green and thickly 

 spotted with white ; lower abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts 

 olive-green : " bill blackish, blue at base, the tips of both mandibles 

 and the greater part of the lower mandible rose-colour ; feet greyish 

 flesh-colour; iris dark brown'' {J. Bi'Utikofcr) . Total length 4*7 

 inches, wing 2, tail I'lo, tarsus 0-(i. 



Adult female. Difit'erent from the male. Olive-green above, 

 brighter on the rump ; face fulvous ; throat and remainder of under 

 surface of body dull ashy, tinged with olive. Total length 4*7 

 inches, wing 2, tail 1*1, tarsus OMi. 



Hah. West Africa, from Sierra Leone to Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. West Africa. A. Wiener, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Sierra Leone. Sir E. Sabine [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Fantee. Sharpe CoU. 



d. $ ad. sk. Accra {Capt. Hayiies). Sharpe Coll. 



