42 Captain G. E. Shelley on the 



upper parts glossy jet-black, underparts duller black, very 

 faintly tinted with brown. Bill huffish brown ; legs dark 

 brown. Total length 5*2 inches, culmen 0'55, wing 3"2, 

 tail 2*2, tarsus 0'8. 



Most nearly allied to M. scutatus, from which it differs in 

 being smaller, and in having the entire chin, throat, and front 

 half of the head orange-red, and the bill pale. 



Against its being an immature specimen of M. scutatus, 

 which the colouring of the bill and legs might suggest, is the 

 brightness of the red parts, and the absence of a brown shade 

 on the back. The type was collected by the late Governor 

 Ussher, in 1870, on the Gold Coast. 



176. Malimbus racheli^. 



Sycobius rachelice, Cass. Pr. Ac. Philad. 1857, p. 36, Muni 

 R. ; id. Journ. Ac. Philad. 1862, p. 185, pi. 23. fig. 3. 

 Malimbus rachelice, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. B. 1871, p. 60. 

 Hab. W. Africa : Gaboon. 



23. Textor. rv 



Type. 



1828. Textor, Temm. PI. Col. pi. 446 . . T. albirostris. 



1836. Bubalornis, Smith, Rep. Exp. Expl. 



Centr. Afr. 1836, p. 50 . . . . T. panicivorus. 



1837. Dertroicles, Swains. B. W. Afr. i. 



1837, p. 163 T. albirostris. 



1861. Dinemellia, Reichb. Singvog. p. 88, 



pi. 45. figs. 327, 328 T. dinemelli. 



1861. Alectrornis, Reichb. t. c. p. 89, pi. 45. 



fig. 330 T. albirostris. 



1885. Limoneres, Reichenow, J. f. O. 1885, 



p. 372 T. dinemelli. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head and breast brown or black. 



a'. AVitb more than half of the basal portion 

 of the inner webs of the quills white. 



Bill red and smooth 177. T. panicivorus. 



6' . With no white on the inner webs o f the 



quills ] 78. T. albirostris. 



