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b. Bill blackish brown. Quills not edged with 

 yellow or red. Throat white, like the 

 breast. Upper parts blackish brown, with 

 the rump pale yellow; the upper back 

 mottled with white ; the median and 

 greater wing-coverts with white ends .... 125. P. angolensis. 



C. Symplectes Group. 



a. Entire upper parts and the throat jet-black . 12G. P. kersteni. 



b. Upper parts dark brown, with narrow whitish 



edges to the quills. Throat not black. 

 b^. Feathers of the forehead and throat brown, 



tipped with white 127. P. stictifrom. 



c\ Forehead uniform brownish black. 



c^ Chin white, shading into yellow on the 

 lower throat. Upper throat occa- 

 sionally mottled with blackish. Upper 

 half of the head uniform with the 



back 128. P. bicolor. 



cP. Throat brown, slightly mottled with 



whitish. Upper half of the head [cephahis. 



darker than the back 129. P. amawo- 



D. Black-eared Yellow-throated Group. 



a. Back of the neck and upper back olive. 



Crown yellow in both sexes 130. P. haglafect. 



b. Crown yellow in male, black in female. 



6\ Back of neck and upper back black and 

 ashy brown. Abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts buff' 131. P. emini. 



c^. Back of neck and upper back black. The 



entire uuderparts bright yellow 132. P. reichenoivi. 



E. Hyphanturgus Group. 



a. Back, tail, and wings black or brownish 



black. Males with the sides of the head 



and crown yellow, the black ocular baud 



scarcely extending behind the eye ; females 



with tlie crown black and the black ocular 



band extending back so as to join that 



colour on the nape, thus forming a distinct 



yellow eyebrow. 

 a}. Slightly paler above; rump, tail, and 



edges of the quills tinted with olive .... 133. P. niyricoUis. 

 J?. Back, wings, and tail entirely jet-black. . 134. P. melanoxanthus. 



