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and black breast, and may belong to a different species. It has a 

 little tinge of scarlet on the black throat, and otherwise does not 

 seem quite adult, so that the black on the chest may be remains of 

 immaturity ; but the nestling from the Gold Coast does not show 

 any trace of black on the chest. 



Hah. West Africa from Liberia to Gaboon. 



7. Malimbus rachelise. 



Sycobius rachelise, Cass. Proc. Philad. Acad. 1857, p. 36 ; Havtl. 

 Orn. W.-Afr. p. 260 (1857) ; Cass. Journ. Philad. Acad. (2) v. 

 p. 185, pi. 23. fig. 3 (1862) ; Graij, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 43, no. 6610 

 (1870); Bharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 68 (1871); Elliot, Ibis, 1876, 

 p. 464. 



Adult. Glossy black above and below, the vent and under tail- 

 coverts being lemon-yellow ; head fine scarlet, as well as the lower 

 throat and fore neck ; the chest lemon-yellow as well as the sides of 

 the fore neck, the sides of the neck, and a collar round the hind 

 neck. Total length 5-5 inches, culmen 0-7, wing 3 1, tail 2-4, 

 tarsus 0-8. 



Hah. Gaboon. 



a. (S ad. sk. Gaboon (Walker). Shari3e Coll. 



56. NESACANTHIS *. 



Foudia, pt., auct. recent. 



Range. Confined to the Mascarene Islands. 



Key to the Species. 



I a. With red on the head. 



a'. Head scarlet-vermilion ; no black round the 



eye eminentissima , p. 484. 



Type N. eminentissima. 



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