55. MALIMBUS. 



481 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad. St. 



c-h. Ad. et juv. sk. 



i. Ad. sk. 



k. Ad. sk. 



I. Ad. sk. 



m. Ad. sk. 



n, 0. Ad. sk. 



Wasa Province, (loid Coast 



(i/. /^. Blissett). 

 Fantee. 

 Fantee. 



Fantee (H. T. Usi~her). 

 Fantee. 

 Asbantee. 



Abouri, Aguapim, Feb. 

 Cameroon Mountains, Feb. 



{Crossky). 



Shelley Coll. . 



Sir A. Moloney [P.]. 

 Sharpe Coll. ' 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 Shelley Coll. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



4. Malimbus niteus. 



Ploceus niteus, Gray, Zoo!. Misc. p. 7 (1831) ; Sundev. (Efv. K. Vet - 



Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1849, p. 158. 

 Sycobius nitens, Gray, Gen. B. ii. p. 352, pi. 87. fig. 1 (1849) ; Bp. 



Consp. i. p. 439 (1850) ; Hartl. Orn. Westafr.^. 133 (1857); Cass. 



Proc. Philad. Acad. 1859, p. 136; Hartl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 257; 



Reichenb. Sinyv. p. 90 (1861) ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1869, p. 192; Eeichen. 



J. f. 0. 1877, p. 26 ; Bocage, Orn. Angola, p. 558 (1881) ; BMik. 



Notes Leyden Mus. vii. p. 196 (1885). 

 Malimbus nitens. Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 43, no. 6606 (1870) ; Sharpe, 



Cat. Afr. B. p. 60 (1871) ; Shelle\i S^ Buckley, Ibis, 1872, p. 289 ; 



Ui^sher, Ibis, 1874, p. 68 ; Elliot, 'ibis, 1876, p. 463 ; Oust. Nonv. 



Arch. Mus. (2) ii. p. 154 (1879); Sharpe, Juurn. Linn. Soc. xvii. 



p. 426 (1884) : Shelley, Ibis, 1887, p. 41 ; Biittik. Notes Leyden 



Mus. X. p. 90 (1888),' xi. pp. 124, 133 (1889). 



Adult. Black above and below, with a steel-black gloss ; lower 

 throat, fore neck, and chest brilliant crimson, forming a large chest- 

 patch : " bill clear bluish grey ; feet dark grey ; iris carmine " (A. 

 Beichenow) : " bill and feet bluish horn-colour ; iris cherry-brown" 

 (J. Biittikofer). Total length 6 inches, culmen 0*85, wing 3 7, 

 tail 2, tarsus 0'85. 



There is considerable difference in the amount of black on the 

 chin and throat in the Museum series ; but I do not see that there 

 can be more than one species, and I think that the differences are 

 due to the immaturity of the specimens. 



Young. Dusky black all over, with a reddish tinge on the throat 

 and breast. 



Hab. West Africa from Sierra Leone to the Loaugo Coast, and 

 extending to Equatorial Africa. 



a, b. Ad. et juv. sk. 

 c. Ad. sk. 



West Africa. 

 Sierra Leone. 



d, e. Ad. 

 Juv. sk. 

 h. Juv. sk. 

 i, k. Ad. sk. 



I, m, n. Ad. 

 0. Ad. sk. 

 p. Ad. sk. 



vol. Xlll. 



/, g. Fantee (H. T. Ussher). 



Accra (Ilaynes). 

 Cameroons, Jan., Feb. 

 {A. Crossky). 

 sk, Gaboon. 



Gaboon. 

 Niam-Niam Country, Nov. 



Purchased. 



Sir E. Sabine [C.]. 



(Type of species.) 

 Sharpe Coll. 



Sharpe CoU. 

 Sharpe Coll. 



P. B.DuChaillu[C.]. 



Sharpe Coll. 



F. Bohndorlf [C.]. 



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