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on the fore-head intermixed with black ones , the cheeks 

 are already entirely black , as well as the sides of chin 

 and throat, and it is evident that the red on chin, up- 

 per throat and the fore-head very soon would have given 

 way to the black color, peculiar to the adult female of 

 this species. (About the immature specimens from Liberia, 

 see my remarks in N. L. M. 1885, p. 196). The bill in 

 young birds is nearly white and through all the transitio- 

 nal stages becomes continually darker until it has got the 

 black color of the adult stage. 



The bird from the Cameroons, mentioned by Dr. Sharpe 

 under the head of M. scutatus in his Catalogue , belongs 

 certainly to this species. Although none of the specimens 

 in our Museum have the red patch on the chest longitu- 

 dinally divided by a black line , nearly all , and especially 

 the immature ones, have the red patch more or less deeply 

 notched from below , and this is , in a very high degree , 

 the case with a fully adult specimen from the Gaboon. 



67. Hypliantornis aurantius (Vieill.). 

 *68. » superciliosus , Shelley. 



Two males, shot in the cane-jungles near Juring. 



69. Sitagra hrachyptera (Swains.). 



Hyphantornis hrachyptera. Butt. N. L. M. 1885, p. 189. 

 Symplectes hrachypterus. Butt. N. L. M. 1886, p. 259. 



A large series of these birds having been collected, the 

 species seems to be very common on the Sulymah Kiver, 

 while at Robertsport and farther down the coast of Li- 

 beria it is rather rare. 



70. Pyromelana jiammiceps (Swains.). 



*71. Coliopasser ardens (Bodd.) , var. concolor (Cass.)*). 

 Ten male specimens, all belonging to the northern va- 

 riety in which the red cross-band is entirely wanting. It 



1) I cannot see sufficient reason for rejecting Rttppell's generic name of Co- 

 liuspasser in favor of Penthetria of Cabanis, on account of its unscholarly 

 composition, as it can easily be altered, and has already been done so (N. L. 

 M. 1889, p. 74 and J. f. O. 1889, p. 283) into Coliopasser. Corrections of 

 such names are not rare in ornithological literature. 



Notes from th.e Leyden jMuseum, Vol. XIV. 



