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demy of Natural Sciences, from two pairs which were brought 

 from Sierra Leone by Mr. R. MacDowell. It has since been 

 procured at various points along the West-African coast, to the 

 south of the locality whence Gassings specimens came, and in 

 most of the districts appears to be rather a rare species. 



Male. Top of head, neck, broad pectoral baud, and under 

 tail-coverts crimson. Throat and rest of plumage black. 



Female. Pectoral band and under tail-coverts crimson, all 

 the rest of plumage black. 



Total length 5J inches, wing 3f , tail 2|. 



Malimbus cassini. Plate XI 11. f. 1. 



Sycobius cassini, Elliot, Ibis, 1859, p. 392 ; Cassin, Joum. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1862, p. 186. 



Hub. Gaboon [Verreaux). 



I described this species in ' The Ibis ' for the year 1859 

 from a single specimen received from the Gaboon by the 

 Maison Verreaux, at that time the greatest commercial house 

 for natural-history specimens in Europe. It is most nearly 

 allied to M. scutatus, Cassin, but can always be distinguished 

 by the crissum being black like the general plumage. It 

 appears to be very rare, as I have seen but few specimens 

 in Europe (Cassin states that there is a specimen in the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences) ; and the female 

 is unknown. Tiie type is in the British Museum. As it 

 is one of the species of this genus which has not been 

 figured, an excellent representation of it is given on the ac- 

 companying plate. 



Male. Jet black. Upper part and sides of head, nape of 

 neck, throat, and breast rich crimson. Bill black ; feet and 

 legs brown. Total length 5^ inches, wing 3^, tail %\, bill "8, 

 tarsus '8. 



Malimbus rubricollis. 



Republicain a capuchon ecarlate, Temm. Cat. Cabin. Ornith. 

 (1807) p. 23k 



Textor malimbus, Temm. ? 



Ploceus rubricollis, Swain. Menag. p. 306 (1838). 



Malimbus cristatus, Yieill. Ois. Chant, pi. 43, $ . 



