140 Dr. von Ileugliii on the Maluriuie 



sometimes daik smoky-grey^ with a slight olive-coloured tinge; 

 interscapulium still darker, and without any trace of the 

 greenish-yellow of the wings ; the sides of the abdomen also 

 washed with dark grey. 



Inhabits also Senegal (Hartlaub). 



33. Camaroptera olivacea, Sundev., (Efvers, 1850, p. 103. 



Syncopta tincta, Cass., Proc. Ac. Philad. 1855, p. 325. 

 Camaroptera tincta, Hartl., Orn. Westafr. No. 186. 



Saturate fumoso cana, subtus pallidior ; abdomine medio, crisso 

 et subcaudalibus albidis ; abdomine ex parte obsolete et 

 sordide albicante fasciato ; scapularibus, margine lato tec- 

 tricum alse, et limbo exteriore remigum laete olivaceo flavis; 

 subalaribus albidis ; margine alari Isete olivaceo tlavo ; 

 cruribus rufescentibus ; rostro nigro ; pedibus rubellis. 

 Rostr. a fr. 6'", al. 2", caud. 1" 5'", tars. 9|"'. 



Like Camaroptera brevicaudata, but the grey coloration still 

 deeper, the underside a little lighter than the upper, only 

 the vent and under trul-coverts whitish. The middle of the 

 belly shows traces of a broad but very obsolete transverse stria- 

 tion. The white in the upper tail-coverts is entirely wanting. 

 The bird is on the wbole rather larger, and has the bill rather 

 narrower at the base, and apparently entirely black. The shafts 

 of the remiges and rectrices are whitish beneath. 



The following is the description of a specimen from the Ga- 

 boon in the Berlin Museum, which diflFers not inconsiderably 

 from that given by Dr. Hartlaub : — 



" Supra cinerea, alis dilute olivaceo-viridibus ; remigibus, primo 

 excepto, extus late oiivaceis ; eauda dilute fusca ; axillis 

 et cruribus Isete flavis, his potius eroceis ; subalaribus albo 

 flavoque variis ; subtus pallide cinerea, abdomine medio et 

 imo albo ; rostro nigro ; pedibus pallidis. 

 " Long. 3" 8'", rostr. bh'" , al. 1" 11'", caud. 13'", tars. 9'"." 



" This differs from Nubian specimens only by the darker grey 

 coloration of the lower surface of the body. Cassin gives the 

 measurement of his male specimen as follows : — lengtii 4", wing 

 2|", tail 1|".^' 



According to Verreaux this species, as stated by Hartlaub, 

 inhabits Nubia ; but it is possible that he confounded C. brevi- 



