24 LIST OF BIRDS 



61. Lamprocolius cupreicauda^ Hartl. 



62. Pholidauges leucogaster (Gm.). 



63. Malimhus ruhricollis (Swains.) ^). 



Sycohius ruhricollis, Biitt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 195 ; 1886, p. 259. 

 ISIalimbus mnlimhicus , Butt. N. L. M. 1888, p. 90; id. Reisebildor 



ans Liberia, II, p. 475. 

 Mulirnhus hartlelli, Sharpe, Cat. Birds, Br. Mus. XIII, p. 479. 



lu his above mentioned catalogue , Dr. Sharpe separa- 

 tes, under the name of M. bartletti, the birds from Up- 

 per Guinea (Liberia to the Gold Coast) from those from 

 Lower Guinea (Gaboon to Congo), which he considers to 

 be the true M. ruhricollis. The reason for this separation 

 is said to be the difference in the tinge of red on crown 

 and hind neck, which ought to be crimson in the true 

 M. ruhricollis from Lower Guinea, while it is scarlet or 

 vermilion in the birds from Upper Guinea {M. hartletti). 

 At the moment we possess only one specimen from Lower 

 Guinea (Congo) which really has head and hind neck 

 more crimson than those from Liberia and the Gold Coast, 

 but the fact is that it also shows a remarkable tinge of 

 vermilion and can , therefore , hardly be specifically sepa- 

 rated from the birds from Upper Guinea. 



64. Malimhus malimbicus (Daud.). 



Sycohius crislatus (Vieill.). Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 195. 

 Malimhus cristalus, Butt. N. L. M. 1889, p. 124; id. Reisebilder 

 aus Liberia, II, p. 475. 



An adult and an immature male. The crest in the ma- 

 les from Liberia and the Sulymah River are constantly 

 less developed than in our specimens from the Gold Coast, 

 and much less so than in a specimen from Angola (pro- 

 bably erroneously for Loangoj. 



In the genus Malimhus, and more than in any other 

 in this present species, many questions about the distri- 

 bution of the red color in connection with the sex and the 



1) See the explanations about the much entangled synonymy of Malimhus 

 malimbicus and M. cristatus in Sharpe , Catalogue of Birds Br. Mus. XIII, p. 478. 



Notes from the Leyden Mu.se iiiri , Vol. XIV'. 



