52. CINNAMOPTERTX. 



471 



coverts pale isabellinc-buff ; under wing-coverts and axillaries 

 isabellinc brown ; quills below dusky, wbitish along tbe inner edge. 

 Total length 5 inches, culnicn 0*7, wing 2-5, tail 1-G, tarsus 0-75. 



Adult male. Differs from the female in having the crown yellow, 

 no yellow eyebrow, and the sides of the face and upper throat 

 black : " upper mandible blackish horny, lower one pale blue-grey ; 

 legs dirty flesh-colour ; iris brown " ( IF. A. Forbes). Total length 

 4-5 inches, culmen 065, wing 2-45, tail 1'45, tarsus 0-75. 



Young birds are browner than the old female and have the head 

 blackish, followed by a broad eyebrow of tawny buff like the sides 

 of the face and underparts ; lores and a broad streak through the 

 eye black. Wing 2-5 inches. " Maxilla horn-colour ; mandible 

 pale fleshy ; feet dirty flesh-colour ; iris olive-brown " ( W. A. 

 Forbes). 



Eah. West Africa from the Gold Coast to the Loango Coast, 

 extending to the Upper Congo. 



a. [ $ ad.] sk. 



b, c. I mm. sk. 



d. Imm. sk. 



e. c? ad. ; f-h, 

 cS 5 imm. sk. 



i. 6 ad. ; k, I. 2 

 ad. et juv. sk. 



West Africa. 



Fantee (Aiibinn). 

 Accra {J. Smith). 

 Shonga, R. Niger, Nov., Dec. 



{W.A.F.). 

 Landana, K. Congo (Z. Petit). 



Sharpe Coll. 



(Type of species.) 

 Sharpe Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Forbes Coll. 



Shelley CoD. 



52. CINNAMOPTERYX. ^^ ^ 



Cinnamopteryx, Eeichen. Zool. Jahrb. i. p. 126 (1886). C. castaneofusca. 

 llange. Confined to Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Abdomen chestnut ; head and throat black. 

 a'. No light edgings to the wing-coverts and 

 quills, which are entirely black. 

 a". Mantle yellow; remainder of back black; 



throat only black tricolor S , P- 471. 



h". Mantle chestnut like the remainder of [j). 472, 



the back ; throat and breast black castaneofusca (^, 



V . AVing-coverts and quills edged with whitish ; 

 back entirely chestnut, as wull as the under 

 tail-coverts rubiginosa J , p. 473. 



1. Cinnamopteryx tricolor. 



Ploceus collaris {nee 7'.), /. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. i. p. 6 (1831). 

 Hyphantornis tricolor, Hart/. J. f. 6. 18-14, p. 110; id. Orn. W.-Afr. 



p. 126 (1857) ; Grail, Iland-l. i/.ii.p.41, no. 6567 (1870) ; Shelley 



^- BucJdey, Ibis, 1872, p. 292; B'littik. Notes Lei/den 3Iiis. vii. 



p. 193 (1885). 

 Ploceus tricolor, lieiihenb. Sinf/i: p. 81 (1861) ; Heichen. Zool. Jahrb. 



i. p. 128(1^861; Shclleii, Ibis, 1887, p. 38 ; Biittik. Notes Ley den 



Mus. X. p. 88 (1886), xi. p. 134 (1889). 

 ? Hyphantornis fuscocastanea, Bocaye, Jorn. Lisb. 1880, no. 29; id. 



Urn. Anyola, p. 558 (1881). 



