47. srcoBROTUS. 421 



yellow ; forehead and vertex golden yellow ; lores, eyebrow, ear- 

 coverts, and sides of face entirely black ; cheeks, throat, and breast 

 golden yellow, the rest, of the imdtr surface pale ashy isabelline ; 

 under wing-coverts ashy brown, the edge of the wing yellow ; quills 

 dusky below, pale yellow along the inner web : " bUl black ; feet 

 brownish ; iris pearly grey or straw-j'ellow " (Emin). Total length 

 6-3 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3"2, tail 2-1, tarsus 0*9. 



In the full jilumage it is probable that the ashy edges to the 

 feathers of the hind neck are shed, and that these parts become 

 entirely black. 



Aih (If female. Differs from the male in wanting the yellow on 

 the forehead, which is black like the rest of the crown and sides of 

 face : the back ashy grey, broadly streaked with black ; uuder 

 surface as in the male, but the yellow on the throat and breast 

 much paler. Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 2-95, tail 

 1-9.'), tarsus 0-9. 



Hah. Equatorial Africa. 



a, b. (S; c. 2 ad. sk. Agaru, Equatorial Africa, April, Shelley Coll. 

 May {Einin Pasha). 



47. SYCOBROTUS. 



Type. 

 Svmplectes, S^mim. B. W. Afr. i. p. 170 (18-37, nee 



■ Meit/en, 18.30) '. S. bicolor. 



Eupodes, Jard. 4" Selby, III. Orn. new ser. pi. x. (18.37, nee 



Latreille) S. bicolor. 



Sycobrotus, Cah. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 182 (1850) S. bicolor. 



Head of Sycobrotiiti hicolor, to show nostril. 

 Eaneje. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Forehead uniform like the rest of the head, 



the feathers not tipped with hoary grey. 

 a'. Back chocolate-brown ; throat edged 

 with hoary grey or j'ellow margins to 



the feathers bicolor, p. 422. 



b'. Back greyish brown washed with olive . . amaiiruceji/uilun, p. 423. 

 c' . Back intense black like the throat kerstetn, p. 423. 



b. Forehead and throat edged with hoary grey 



margins trj the feathers stictifrons, p. 424, 



