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The young birds are paler chestnut below^ and the head 

 and mantle are bright chestnut, with no black on the sides 

 of the face and throat. 



Malimbus malimbicus. 



Malimbus malimbicus (Daud.); Sharpe, Cat. B. xiii. p. 480 

 (1890); Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, iii. p. 21 (1904). 



a-c. S ? ad. et jnv. Efulen, March, April 1902. 

 " Ngase-minkan.'^ 



d. ? imm. Efulen, May 6, 1902. 



Nos. 770,795. $ ad.; 793,821. ? ad. Efulen, June 13- 

 30, 1905. 



Nos. 1086, 1095. ? imm. Zima Country, Oct. 8, 9, 1905. 



Nos. 78, 1271, 13U8, 1309, 1413, 1414, 1545, 1477, 1602, 

 1625, 1647, 1789, 1795. S ? ad. et imm. Eiver Ja, Jan. to 

 August. 



Nos. 2242, 2287, 2437. S ad. et juv.; 2154, 2286, 2293, 

 2334, 2346. ? ad. et juv. Bitje, River Ja, Jan. to April. 



On comparing the Camaroon examples with a series from 

 the Gold Coast, it seems to me that two forms have been 

 confounded under the name of M. malimbicus. The black 

 of the lores extends on to the fore-part of the cheeks 

 in the Gold Coast bird, which must be called Malimbus 

 nigrifrons (Hartl.). In the Camaroons birds the fore-part 

 of the cheeks is crimson, with no black spot at the anterior 

 base. 



[This bird seems to be the architect of the very long and 

 finely constructed retort-shaped nests found by the natives 

 hanging from rattan- vines in the forest. I have several 

 times seen the birds about these vines, which the natives 

 call *' miukan,^^ whence this bird is named " ngase-minkau," 

 a name they apply, but less appropriately, to other species 

 of Malimbus. — G. L. B.] 



Malimbus rubricollis. 



Malimbus rubricollis (Swains.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. 

 xiii. p. 478 (1890) ; Reichenow, Vog. Afrikas, iii. p. 19 (1904). 

 a. ? imm. Efulen, June 4, 1902. 

 Nos. 979, 980. ^ ? ad. Efulen, July 22, 1905. 



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