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1867, p. 82 (Zanzibar); Layard, B. S. Afr. p. 265 (1867); 

 Gum, Ibis, 1868, p. 104 ; Poll. # Schley. Heck. Faun. Madag. 

 p. 117 (1868); Fasten, v. d. Deeken's' Beis. i. p. 60 (1869); 

 Finsch $■ Hartl. Vbg. Ostafr. p. 535 (1870) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.- 

 Afr. i. 2, p. 822 (1871) ; Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Columbse, p. 49 

 (1873); Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. 'ii. Nachtr. p. 168 (1875); Shell. 

 Ibis, 1875, p. 83 (Pinetown) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. iii. p. 651 (1877) ; 

 Nichols. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 359 (Darra-Salam) ; Fisch. 8[ Bchmc. 

 J. f. O. 1878, pp. 260, 293 (Mombasa); Shelley, P.Z.S. 1881, 

 p. 595 ; Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 5-jO (1882) ; Holub 8>- Pelz. 

 Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 171 (1882) ; Shell. Ibis, 1882, p. 358, 1883, 

 p. 270; Skarpe, Bayard's B. 8. Afr. p. 558 (1884); Fischer, 

 Zcitschr. f. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 376; ? id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 118 

 (Zanzibar, Mombasa, Maurui, Aruscba) ; Aijres, Ibis, 1885, p. 345 

 (Transvaal); Rchnw. J. f. 0. 1887, p. 50 (Simiu River); Tristr. 

 Cat. Coll. B. p. 45 (part.) (1889) (Transvaal) ; Rchnw. J. f. 0. 

 18S9, p. 269 (E. Afr.) ; Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 192 (1892) ; 

 Shell. Ibis, 1893, p. 28 (Zomba). 



Adult male. Head, neck, and underparts greyish green ; below 

 the hind neck a broad grey collar ; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 and wings olive-yellow ; centre of the abdomen and tibial feathers 

 bright yellow ; feathers of the flanks olive along the centre, and 

 broadly edged with white; under tail-coverts chestnut, broadly 

 edged with whitish, the basal ones olive edged with white ; smaller 

 wing-coverts near the bend of the wing vinaceous ; primary-coverts 

 and quills black, the primaries with narrow yellow edges, secondaries 

 and greater wing-coverts with broader yellow edges, tertials olive- 

 yellow like the back ; under wing-coverts and quills beneath lead- 

 grey ; tail above olive-yellow, with the apical third pale whitish 

 olive; tail below black, with the apical band whitish grey : "iris 

 light blue, whitish towards the pupil ; basal half of bill crimson, 

 the remainder light slate-colour ; tarsi and feet vermilion " (Ayres). 

 Total length about 12 inches, wing 7, tail 4 - 6, bill 0-8, tarsus - 9. 



Female. Eather smaller, and has the under tail-coverts olive, 

 broadly edged with whitish, and with very little cinnamon in the 

 centre. 



Younr/. Similar to the female, but the vinaceous colour near the 

 bend of the wing less extended. 



Bab. Eastern and Southern Africa, from Mombasa to KafTraria, 

 and inland as far as the Nyassa. 



a. Ad. sk. S. Africa. M. Verreaux. 



b. Ad. .-k. S. Africa. Purchased. 



i. Ad. st. Cape Colony. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



</. Ad. ^k. Kingwilliamstown. Major Trevelyan 



HP.]- 



p. Ad. sk. Natal (A i/res). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



/. Ad.sk. Durban (Qordge). Shelley Coll. 



.'/. h. J 2 nd. sk. Uinlaas, Durban (Gordge). Shelley Coll. 



(', k. 3 ad. sk. Pinetown, June, Aug. (Ayres). Shelley Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Transvaal. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



m, n. c? ad. sk. Pustenburg, June, Aug. Gurney Coll. 

 (Ayres). 



