3. Malimbus malimbicus. 



Tanagra malimbica S (^"'C $), Daiid. Ann. du Mus. i. p. 151, 

 pi. 10. fig. 1 (1802) S/wiv cjNodd. Nat. Misc. pi. 581. 



Malimbus cristatus, Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 71, pL 42 (1805); Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. ii. p. 43, no. 6603 (1870) ; 8havpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 60 

 (1871) ; id. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 612 ; SMlnj ^- Buckley, Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 289 ; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 68 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1876, p. 459; Sharpe 

 Sf Bouvier, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, iii. p. 74 (1878) ; Oust. Nouv. 

 Arch. Mvs. (2) ii. Bull. p. 140 (1879) ; Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 40 ; 

 Biittik. Notes Leydcn Mus. xi. pp. 124, 133 (1889) ; Bartlett, 

 Monoyr. Weaver- B. part iv. pi. 11 (1889). 



Ploceiis cristatus, Vieill. N. Diet, d' Hist. Nat. xxxiv. p. 129 (1819) ; 

 Sivains. An. in Menay. p. 305 (1837). 



Sycobius cristatus, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 352 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. 

 p. 438 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 133 (1857) ; Cass. Proc. 

 Philad.Acad. 1857, p. 369, 1859, p. 135; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, 

 p. 267 ; jReichenb. Sinyv.-p. 90 (1861) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 18C9, p. 191 ; 

 Reichen. J. f. O. 1877, p. 26 ; Bocaye, Orn. Anyola, p. 331 (1881) ; 

 Biittik. Notes Leyden Mus. vii. p. 195 (1885). 



Ficophagus cristatus, Vieill. {ubi?), teste Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 352 

 (1849). 

 ■ Sycobius nigrifrons, Hartl. J.f. O. 1865, p. 356. 



? Sycobius, sp., Bocaye, Jorn. Lkh. 1866, p. 140*. 



Adult male. Black above and below, with a certain steel-black 

 gloss on the margins of the feathers : head (strongly crested), sides 

 of face, throat, and chest bright crimson ; a narrow band across the 

 base of the forehead, lores, feathers round the eye, base of cheeks, 

 and chin black : " bill and feet black ; iris brown " {J. BiUlikofer). 

 Total length 6 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-35, tail 2-35, tarsus 0-85. 



In the males from the Cameroons there is far less black on the 

 forehead and one of them has none at all ; the crest-feathers are 

 also longer. 



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

 with a few red feathers generally intermixed ; the head is not 

 crested, and the red colour is continued on to the hind neck. Total 

 length 6 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3-25, tail 2-4, tarsus 0-75. 



Nestliiifj. Sooty black all over, rather greyer below, with a tinge 

 of dull crimson on the throat and chest. 



Hab. West Africa from Liberia to the Congo. 



* The specimen here described by Professor Barboza du Bocoge, and furtlier 

 commented on in his ' Ornithologie d' Angola,' seems to me to be different from 

 any stage of plumage of M. cristatus, and may turu out to be the young of 

 M. rachdice or some kindred species. 



