48 CAPITONID^. 



black ; feet greyish green ; iris pale yellow " {J. Buttikofer). Total 

 length 4*2 inches, culmen 0'65, wing 2-2, tail 1'05, tarsus 0'65. 



Young. Duller than the adults and more olive-green, with a 

 greyish throat and the breast mottled with blackish spots. 



Hah. West Africa, from Senegambia to the Gaboon. 



a. Ad. sk. Ashantee. Gould Coll. 



h. Ad. sk. Sweet River, Fantee, Dec. 30 Sharpe Coll. 



(if. T. Ussher). 



c-/. Ad. sk. YKUiee (H.T.Ussher). Sliarpe Coll. 



g. Ad. sk. Wasa Province, Gold Coast Shelley Coll. 



{H. F. BUssett). 



h, i. Ad. sk. Denkera {H. T. Us.^her). Shelley Coll. 



k, I. Ad. sk. Abouri, Aguapim, Feb. 20 (G. Shelley Coll. 



E. S.). 



m. Juv. sk. Clarence River, Fernando Po. L. Fra,ser, Esq. [C.]. 



(TjliQoiB.stellatus.) 



n. Ad.sk. Gaboon (Z>MC%az7/M). Sharpe Coll. 



o. Ad. sk. Gaboon. Sharpe Coll. 



9. STACTOL-EMA. 



Type. 

 Stactolema, Marshall, P. Z. 8. 1870, p. 118 S. auchietse. 



Range. Confined to Tropical Africa. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Forehead and throat yellow anchietcB, p. 48. 



h. Forehead and throat olive-green hke the body .... olivacetim, p. 49. 



1. Stactolaema anchietae. 



Buccanodon anchiette, Bocacje, P. Z. S. 18C9, p. 4.36, pi. 29 ; id. Jom. 



Lish. viii. p. 348 (1870). 

 Stactolaema anchietae, Marsh. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 118, fig. 1 ; iid. 



Monogr. Capit. p. 181, pi. 73 (1871); Bocage, Orn. Anqola, p. 110 



(1881); Sharpe, ed. Layard's B. S. Afr. p. 179 (1881); Souza, 



Jom. Lisb. 1886, p. loO. 

 Megalaima anchietse, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 175, no. 8465 (1870). 



Adult male. General colour above brown ; wings blackish brown, 

 the quills with hoary whitish margins ; centre tail-feathers ashy 

 grev, the remainder dusky, externally ashy grey ; forehead and 

 occiput pale sulphur-yellow, the hinder crown and sides of the neck 

 blackish with sulphur-yellow tips to the feathers ; hind neck 

 blackish ; feathers above and below the eye and ear-coverts hoary 

 white ; throat sulphur-yellow ; remainder of under surface of body 

 brown, the lower abdomen, under tail-coverts, under wing-coverts, 

 and axillaries whitish ; quills dusky below, whitish along the inner 

 web : " bill and feet black ; iris reddish brown " (Anchieta). Total 

 length 7 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 3-7, tail 2-1, tarsus 0*85. 



