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Adult. General colour above glossy black, spotted with sulphur- 

 yellow ; the feathers of the rump and upper tail-coverts edged with 

 yellow ; lesser and median wing-covcrts like the back and similarly 

 spotted with yellow ; the greater coverts, quills, and tail-feathers 

 black, edged with sulphur-yellow ; crown of head, lores, ear-coverts, 

 sides of neck, and throat black ; a broad white eyebrow from above 

 the eye to above the ear-coverts ; a second very broad band of white 

 along the cheeks ; remainder of under surface of body dull sulphur- 

 yellow ; the fore neck and chest longitudinally streaked with hair- 

 like lines of black ; the breast, abdomen, sides of body, flanks, thighs, 

 and under tail-coverts spotted with black, the spots being rounded 

 or ovate and rather larger on the flanks and under tail-coverts ; 

 under wing-coverts white, spotted with black : quills dusky below, 

 ashv white along the inner web : " bill black ; feet blackish grey ; 

 iris carmine " (./. BiiftiJcofer). Total length ~-4 inches, culmen 1-05, 

 wing 3'o, tail 1'8, tarsus 0-85. 



? Voung or Adult female. Differs from the adult above described in 

 having the head spotted with yellow, the whole of the spots and the 

 yellow on the under surface being brighter and more golden yellow ; 

 the throat mottled with spots of hoary whitish or pale yellow. 

 Total length 6-2 inches, culmen 1, wing 3"5, tail 1"9, tarsus 0'85. 



Hub. West Africa, from Sierra Leone to the Congo. 



a, h. Ad. sk. Fantee {H. T. Ussher). Sharpe Coll. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Denkera {H. T. Ussher). Shelley Coll. 



e. Ad.sk. Coomassie, Ashantee. Godfrey Lagden, Esq. 



[P.]. 



/. Ad. sk. Abom-i, Aguapim, Feb. 22 (T. E. Shelley Coll. 



Biwldey). 



g, h. Juv. sk. Camaroons (A. Crossley). Sharpe Coll. 



i. Juv. sk. Gaboon (DuChailhi). Tweeddale Coll. 



A;. Ad. sk. Gaboon. Purchased. 



2. Tricholaema stigmatothorax. (Plate II. fig. 1.) 



Trichol.nema stigmatothorax, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, pp. 205, 240 ; Fischer, 

 Zeihchr. ges. Orn. i. p. 371 (1884) ; id. J. f. O. 1885, p. 125 ; 

 Shelleg, Ibis, 1885, p. .394. 



Pogonorhynchus stigmatothorax, Shelley, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 357. 



Tricholaema stigmatothorax, Shelley, Ibis, 1889, p. 476. 



Adult female. Similar to T. nielanocepJialum, but brown instead 

 of black, the band along the sides of the head and the throat dis- 

 tinctly brown, as also the crown of the head : " bill black ; feet 

 lead-colour ; iris brown " (G. A. Fischer). Total length 4-4 inches, 

 culmen 0-6.5, wing 2-5, tail 1-4, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult male. Differs only in plumage from the female in having 

 the feathers of the throat indistinctly tipped with white. 



Hah. Eastern Africa. 



a. 2 ad. sk. N'di, Teita, Feb. Dr. HUbebrandt [C.]. 



b. $ nd. sk. Ronga, March 26 {Dr. G. A. Shelley Coll. 



Fischer). 



c. cJ ad. sk. Kilimanjaro, July 3. H. C. V. Himter, Esq. 



[P.]. 



