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very faintly so, the outer web of the primaries from off 

 the base to the narrowed terminal part of the quills vel- 

 vety black, the latter as well as the whole inner web 

 dark earthy brown , the innermost primaries edged with 

 white near the base. Basal half of secondaries pure white, 

 continued down the outer edge of the whole feather and 

 forming together a broad longitudinal white bar and a 

 large space of white on the inner surface of the wing. 

 The inner secondaries dark brown , with a broad fulvous 

 edging round the whole feather. Primary-coverts pure 

 black , glossed with steel-blue on the outer web. Wing- 

 coverts dark brown and narrowly tipped with white , the 

 outer ones also edged with steel-blue. Under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries lively fulvous , edge of wing whitish. Entire 

 chest and breast , flanks , thighs , sides of abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts of the same color as the under wing- 

 coverts; the feathers on chest, breast and flanks with a 

 large pyriform blackish central spot and with isabel edg- 

 ings , centre of abdomen white. 



Iris gray, bill entirely yellow, feet brown. 



Total length 210 mM., culmen 21, wing 112, tail 86, 

 tarsus 30. — The bill is laterally compressed , much more 

 so than in N. gutturalis. 



71. N e cich I a gutturalis (Boc). 



Neocichla gutturalis, Sharpe, Birds S. Afr. p. 215; — Boc. Orn. 

 d'Ang. p. 253 ; pi. 1 , f. 2. 



Adult female, 27 February, Kasinga River. 

 Iris yellow, bill black, feet brown. 



72. Cinnyris gutturalis (Linn.). 



Cinnyris gutturalis, Sharpe, Birds S. Afr. p. 311; — Boc. Orn. 

 d'Ang. p. 164. 



Three adult males, in brushwood about Humpata. 

 Iris brown, bill and feet black. 



JN'otes from tbe Leyden ]VIus>euiii, Voi. X. 



