318 PLOCEID^. 



5. Nigrita bicolor. 



Pytelia bicolor, Hartl. Si/st. Verz. Bremen, 1844, p. 76. 



Nigrita bicolor, Sol Coiitr. Oni. 1852, p. 83, cum tab. ; Cass. Proc. 

 FMIad. Acad. 1859, p. l;35; Hartl J. f. O. 1801, p. 176; Kmdcm. 

 N. r. D. iii. p. 391 (1866) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 191 ; Grat/, 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 47, no. 6653 (1870) ; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 61 

 (1871) ; Shelley ^- Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 254; Shw^w Sf Bouvier, 

 Bull. Soc. Zool. France, iii. p. 75 (1878) ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, 

 p. 656 (1877-81) ; Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. vii. p. 195 (1885), 

 viii. p. 261 (1886) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 307. 



Adult. General colour above dull slate-colour ; wing-coverts like 

 the back ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills dusky brown, 

 edged with the same slate-colour as the back ; tail-feathers blackish, 

 the outer ones pale ashy at the end ; crown of head like the back, 

 the base of forehead and eyebrow, ear-coverts, and entire under 

 surface of body deep vinous-chestnut ; thighs ashy grey ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries white with a faint ruddy tinge : quills 

 dusky below, ashy along the iuner edge : " bill black ; feet sooty 

 brown ; iris blood-red " (Bilttikofer). Total length 3-9 inches, 

 culmen 0-4, wing 2-2, tail 1-55, tarsus Q-oo. 



Young. "Distinguished by its pale horn-coloured lower mandible 

 and by the colour of the face and underparts. The upper surface 

 is of a paler slaty grey than the adults ; the sides of the face and 

 throat are also light ashy grey, and there is no chestnut on the 

 forehead or face ; the rest of the under surface is a pale vinous-red 

 washed with ashy. 



Ilcd). West Africa from Pantee to the Congo. 



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



b. Ad. sk. Fantee. Sharpe Coll. 

 c,d,e,f. Imm.sk. Fantee (Aubinn). Sharpe Coll. 

 g. Imm. sk. Fantee (Aubinn). Shelley Coll. 

 h. Ad. sk. Fantee (H. T. Ussher). Sharpe Coll. 

 i. Ad. sk. Fantee (H. T. Ussher). Shelley Coll. 

 k Ad.sk. Abrobonko, Fantee, Jan. 30 (G.-B.-S'.). Shelley Coll. 

 I. Ad. sk. Denkera {H. T. Ussher). SheUey Coll. 

 m. Ad. sk. Abouri, Aguapim, Feb. 22 ( G. E. S.). Shelley Coll. 

 71. Ad. sk. Cameroons, Jan. 7, 1871 (A. Crossley). Sharpe CoU. 

 0. Ad. sk. Gaboon. Sharpe CoU. 



6. Nigrita pinaronota *. 



Nigrita fusconota, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 145 ; id. Zool. Typ. pi. 49 

 (1849) ; Allen Sf Thomps. Exped. Niger, ii. p. 501 (1848) ; Cass. 

 Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 135; Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 47, no. 

 6052 (1870) ; Sharpe (§- Bouvier, Bidl. Soc. Zool. France, i. p. 48 

 (1876) ; Beichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 28 ; Shelley, Ibis, 1886, 

 p. 306. 



Percnopsis dorsofusca, Heine, J.f. 0. 1860, p. 144. 



* Mr. Fraser's intention was to mark the character of the dusky brown back ; 

 but fusconota is a hybrid word. Dr. Heine's amendment is of such an unclassical 

 character that I haye altered the name entirely, seas to bring it back to Fraser's 

 original meaning. 



