from the Tanganyika Plateau. 371 



b. Larger : wing more than 4 inches ; culnien more 

 than 1 inch. Upper half of the head and back 

 of the neck grey, 

 c^ Underparts yellow, with no grey throat. 



{?. With a subterminal black bar to the tail ; 

 throat and chest washed with orange-red. 

 e^. With the grey hood extending further down 



over the upper back poliochlamys . 



/'. Grey hood not extending on to the upper 



back gabonensis. 



<?*. No subterminal black bar to the tail. 

 g^. Entire upper half of head uniform grey ; 

 wing-feathers subterminally blackish next 



to the pale yellow tips lagdeni. 



h^. With white on sides of head ; wnng-feathers 

 with no subterminal dark portion, 

 a*. White on sides of head extending round 

 the eye, and forming another patch 



behind the ear-coverts monteiri. 



b*. White on sides of head confined to a 

 loral band in front of the eye. 

 a\ With scarcely any or no trace of chest- 

 nut on the crop : wing 4-8 inches . . poliocepkalua. 

 b^. Crop chestnut-yellow : wing 4'5 .... blanchoti. 



c\ Crop chestnut : wing 4"2 approxi7na?is. 



«?'. Underparts olive, like the back; throat grey . , gladiator. 



26. Malaconotus blanchoti. 

 Mpata. 



This and the next species are common throughout Nyasa- 

 land. 



27. Crateropus kirki. 



28. Andropadus flavigula. 



Xenocichla flavigula (Cab.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. vi. p. 98 

 (1881) (Angola, Magungo). 



Xenocichla pallidigula Sharpe^ Bull. B. O. C. vii. p. vii 

 (1897) (Ntebi). 



Luchinde, 



The collection contains two specimens, which I have com- 

 pared with the type of X. pallidigula. This species ranges 

 from Angola and Nyasaland to about 2° N. lat., and is 

 replaced from the Niger to the Gambia by A. flavicollis 



