46 CAPIT0NIBJ5. 



throat and fore neck ashy white ; breast pale sulphur-yellow, duller 

 and more ashy on the sides of the body, thighs, and under tail- 

 coverts ; under wing-covorts, axillaries, and quill-lining white, with 

 a slight tinge of yellow : " bill black ; feet and iris dusky brown " 

 {Emin Pasha). Total length 3'7 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 2-05, 

 tail 1, tarsus 0-55. 



Young. Similarly coloured to the adult, but much more dusky, 

 being sooty black above, with only a slight wash of glossy blue, all 

 the yellow markings much paler than in the adult ; under surface 

 as in the adult, but more dingy and with the throat more ashy : 

 " bill black, pale horny at the basal part of the maxilla and on the 

 lower mandible ; feet lead-colour ; iris umber-brown " (Emin 

 Pasha). 



Hah. West Africa from Senegambia to the Congo, and across to 

 Equatorial Africa and probably to Zanzibar. 



a. Ad. sk. Kiver Gambia. Sharps Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Casamance. Sharps Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Sierra Lsone. Twesddals Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. W. Africa. M. J. Verreaux. 



e. Ad. sk. Ashantee. J.Gould. 

 f. Ad. sk. Cape Coast Castls. Sharps Coll. 

 y. Ad. sk. Fantse (Aitbinn). Sharps Coll. 

 h, i. Ad. sk. Accra (Haynes). Sharps Coll. 



k, I. Ad sk. Abeokuta. F. Nicholson, Esq. 



[P.-j. 

 VI. cS ad. sk. Landana, Congo (L. Petit). Shellsy Coll. 



n, o,p. S fid. ; Tomaja, Equatorial Africa, Emin Pasha [P.]. 

 g, r. d 2 juv.sk. Aug. 



12. Barbatula subsulphurea *. 



Bucco subsulphurea, Frascr, P. Z. S. LS43, p. f> ; Allen Sf Thonips. 



Exped. Niger, ii. p. 404 (1848) ; Fra.^er, Zool. Typ. p. 62 (1849). 

 Capita ? subsulphursus, Gruy, Gen. B. ii. p. 430 (1846). 

 TrachypboDus subsulphursus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 142 (1850); id. Consp. 



Vol. Zygod. p. 12 (1854). 

 Barbatula flavimentum, J. Sf E. Verr. Rev. et Mag. Zool. 1851, 



p. 264. 

 Barbatula subsulphursa, Strickl. Contr. Orw. 1851, p. 35 ; Hartl. J. 

 f. O. 1854, p. 195 ; id. Om. W.-Afr. p. 172 (pt.) ; Vei-r. P. Z. S. 



1869, p. 398 ; Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. 1859, p. 140 ; Hartl. J. f. 



O. 1861, p. 262; Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. p. 16 (1871, pt). 



* Closely allied to this species must be 



Barbatula fischeri. 

 Barbatula fischeri, Eeichen. Orn. Centralhl. 1880, p. 181 ; Fischer, J.f. 0. 

 1885, p. 125. 



Very similar to B. bilineata, but smaller and with the white eye-stripe washed 

 with pale sulphur-yellow. Total length 3"4 inches, wing 2, tail 1'15, culmen 

 045 {Beichenow). 



Hab. Zanzibar district of Eastern Africa. 



