Mr, D. G. Elliot on the Ge?ius Malimbus. 459 



AXAPLECTKS. 



EE. General plumage cinereous. , 



d. Head, throat, and breast red ; chin, ear-coverts, 



and lores black; edge of outer web of pri- 

 maries red 8. M. melanotis. 



e. Head entirely and throat scarlet ; edge of outer 



■web of primaries yellow 9. 3/. ruhriceps. 



Sycobius. 



Malimbus cristatus. 



Tanagra malimbica, Daud. Ann. du Mus. (1802) vol. i. pi. 

 10. fig. 1, ^; Shaw, Nat. Miscell. pi. 581. 



Malimbe Mppe, Vieill. Analyse (1816), p. 33. 



Malimbus cristatus, Vieill. Ois. Chant. (1805) pi. 42, c5' ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Afr. Birds, p. 60. sp. 572 ; Shelley & Buckl. 

 Ibis, 1872, p. 289; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 68. sp.*130. 



Ploceus cristatus, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 700; id. Nouv. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat. (1819) vol. 34. p. 129. 



Sycobius , n. sp. ? J. V. Barboza du Bocage, Jorn. 



Sc. Math. Lisboa, vol. i. p. 140 ? 



Sycobius cristatus, Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 352 ; 

 Hartl. Syst. Ornith. W.Afr. (1857) p. 132. sp. 398 ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1869, p. 191. sp. 31, 1870, p. 472; Bon. Consp. Gen. 

 Av. vol. i. p. 438. sp. 1. 



Sycobius nigrifrons, Hartl. Journ. fUr Ornith. 1855, p. 356. 



Hab. Denkera {Ussher); Gold Coast {Shelley); Rio Boutry 

 {Pel) ; Fantee {Sharpe) ; Aguapim {Riis) ; Bio Quito {An- 

 chieta) ; Biver Muni {Du Chaillu) ; Congo {Perrein). 



This species was first described by Daudin (/. c.) from spe- 

 cimens sent from the Congo by Perrein. The type is now in 

 the Paris Museum at the Jardin des Plantes. He called it 

 Tanagra maluabica, and described as the female the species 

 named afterwards rubricollis by Swainson. Uncoloured 

 figures are given of both, and descriptions in Latin and 

 French. \'ieillot, three years afterwards, figured and de- 

 scribed the same specimens in his ' Oiseaux Chanteurs ' under 

 the name of Malimbus cristatus, by which specific appellation 

 the species has been generally known. He merely followed 

 Daudin, and repeated his error in figuring Swainson^s species 



