of Xurth-easioin Africa. 141 



caudntn with it. It is found on the Gaboon (Verreaux), an<l St. 

 Paul's River (M'Dovvell). 



34. Camaropteua Salvador^. 



" Orthotomm salvado.ce, Paul Wiirtemberg," HeugL, Syst. 

 Ueb. No. 198; IcL, J. f. O. 18G7, p. 296. 



Pileo in fundo cinereo laste rut'o induto ; nucha, tergo et uropygio 

 olivaceo viridibus ; alis caudaque saturate fumosis, tectri- 

 cibus alarum, cubitalibus et rtctricibus olivaceo-viridi lim- 

 batis; primariis niargine exteruo augusto albicantej renii- 

 gibus intus basin versus laste fulvcscentibus; subtus alba, 

 epigastrio medio fulvo induto; pectore et hypocliondriis 

 cano lavatis; subalaribus albidis, fulvo indutis, margine 

 alari magis viridi-tlavo ; tibiis fulvo-rufis ; rostro et pedibus 

 pallidis, illo culmine apiceni versus corneo-fusco. 

 Long. tot. circa 4^", rostr. a fr. 6'", al. 1" iy"', cauda 1" 5^'", 



tars. 9|"'. 



The very long bill is soinewhut depressed at the base ; the 

 wings rather short and rounded, the fifth primary the longest, 

 the fourtli and sixth nearly equal to it, the first about half as 

 long as the second. Tail pretty much graduated, the rectrices 

 narrow and produced into a sharp apex, which is of a whitish 

 colour and tinged with olive-green. The upper tail-coverts 

 olive-green, tinged with light ferruginous. 



Found by Duke Paul of Wiirtemberg on the Atbara and in 

 Sennaar. 



Other species belonging here are : — Ccnaaroptera concolor, 

 Hartl. (Orn. Westafr. No. 187), from Guinea ; and C. caniceps, 

 Cass. (Proc. Ac. Phd.id. 1859, p. 38), from the Gamma River. 



Genus Oligocercus, Cabduis, J. f. 0. 1853, p. 109. 



35. Oligocercus micrurus. 



Troglodytes micrurus, Riipp., N. Wii-belth. tab. 41. fig 2. 

 Syhietta brnchyura, Lafr., Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 258?* Oligura 

 micrura, Riipp., Syst. Ueb. No. 115 ; ileugl.. Ibis, 1859, p. 340. 

 Sylvietta brevicauda, Lefebv,, Ois. Abyss, pi. 6; Rp., Consp. Av. i. 



* Bouapaite (Consp. Av. i. p. 25 T) cites au Oligura hrachyptera, Lafr. 

 from Sennaar. This is probably a lapsus calami, and should be O. 

 bracliyura, Lafr. 



