obtained in the Manenguba Mountains. 6G1 



head, sides of the neck, and rest of the underparts bright 

 goklen-yellow, inclining to orange on the forehead, the 

 black upper throat meeting the yellow lower throat in a 

 concave line ; rest of the upperparts from the nape to the 

 npper tail-coverts yellowish-olive ; tail similar, but rather 

 darker; primaries and secondaries dark brown, yellowish- 

 olive on the outer webs ; wing-coverts very similar, most 

 of t)ie outer webs being yellowish-olive ; the wings when 

 closed appear nearly uniform in colour with the back; 

 under wing-coverts pale yellow, marginal coverts bright 

 yellow. Bill black in dry skin ; feet brownish. AVing 

 75 mm. ; tail 54. 



In general appearance the male most nearly resembles 

 Sitagra bertrandi (Shelley) from Nyasaland, but this latter 

 has the forehead and crown orange- chestnut, a black band 

 across the nape, and the quills and wing-coverts with 

 narrower, paler yellow edges to the outer webs. 



The male is also nearly allied to S. heuglini (Reichenow) 

 (= Plocens heuglini negledus Neumann), but in that species 

 the black on the npper throat is prolonged down the middle 

 of the lower throat. 



Adult female. Top of the head, lores, and a band through 

 the eye to the occiput black, the feathers of the crown more 

 or less mixed with olive ; a narrow frontal and wide super- 

 ciliary band bright golden-yellow like the rest of the under- 

 parts, but the cheeks and upperpart of the chest tinged 

 "with dark rufous-orange. The upperparts, from the nape 

 to the upper tail-coverts, olive, darker than in the male. 

 Wings and tail as in the male. Bill black in dry skin ; feet 

 brownish. Wing 75 mm. ; tail 53. 



The female reminds one of the immature female of 

 Heterhyphantes nigricolUs (Vieill.) in tirst plumage, with 

 the upperparts olive-green ; but in the latter the blackish- 

 olive mantle is assumed before the crown becomes black. 



This species is new to the British Museum collection and 

 is a very valuable addition. 



As the male had not been described, the specimen here 

 characterised is the male type of the species. 



