55. MALIMBUS. 479 



Adult male. Black, with the head, hind neck, and sides of neck 

 rich scarlet. Total length 7-3 inches, eulmcn 0-95, wing 4, tail 2-3, 

 tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Similar to the male but having a broad frontal band 

 of black : "bill and feet black; iris reddish hazel" (L. Fraser). 

 Total length 7 inches, eulmcn 0-9, wing 4, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-95. 



Mr. Edward Bartlett has drawn attention to the difference in the 

 colour of the head between specimens from the Gold Coast and 

 Fernando Po. I find the difference quite constant, and I have 

 named the Gold Coast species after him, as the first discoverer of 

 the characters of these two forms. 



Young. Eesembles the adult male, but is duller black, and has 

 the red crown dingy vermilion ; the black on the sides of the face 

 and chin washed with dull red. 



Hah. West Africa from Fernando Po and Gaboon to the Congo. 

 Mr. Bartlett says it ranges to Angola, in spite of Bocage's positive 

 statement that it has never becu found south of the Zaire. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Gaboon. M. Verreaux. (Type 



of S. michalis.) 



b. S fid. sk. Fernando Po. Lady Isabella Burton 



[P.l. 



c. Ad. st. Fernando Po. Capt. Thomson [P.]. 



d. e. $ ad. et Clarence, Fernando Po. L. Fraser [C.]. 



juv. sk. (Types of jE. rufovelatus.) 



2. Malimbus bartletti. 



Sycobius nuclialis (nee Elliot), Shai-jw, Ibis, 1860, p. 191. 

 Malimbus textrix (pt.), Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 43, no. 6604 (1870). 

 Mahmbus rufovelatus {jiec Fras.), Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 60 (1871) ; 



Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 08. 

 Sycobius malimbus (nee Bp.), HeieTien. J.f. O. 1875, p. 38. 

 Sj'cobius rubricoUis (nee Sic.'), Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. vii. p. 105 



(1885), viii. p. 259 (1886). 

 Malimbus malimbicus, Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 40 (pt.) ; Biittik. Notes 



Leyden Mus. x. p. 90 (1888), xi. p. 133 (1889) ; Bartlett, Monogr. 



Weaver-B. part iv. pi. i. (1889, pt.). 



Adult mcde. Glossy black above and below, the feathers being 

 black with greenish-black margins ; the entire crown, nape, hind 

 neck, and sides of neck crimson, the feathers close-set and bristly : 

 " bill very dark blue : feet dark lead-colour ; iris dark brown " (J, 

 BiittiJcoftr). Total length 7"5 inches, culmen 085, wing 4-15, tail 

 2-6, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having the forehead black, 

 leaving the hinder crown and sides of neck crimson. Total length 

 7 inches, culmen 0*85, wing 4, tail 2'4, tarsus 1. 



Young. Much duller black than the adults, and the crimson on 

 the head much duller and the black forehead indicated by a dusky 

 baud slightly washed with crimson. 



Hab. West Africa from Liberia to the Gold Coast. 



