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yellow. The old female differs from the old male by its 

 having more sea-green underneath , viz. this color extend- 

 ing vover the whole abdomen and under wing-coverts, 

 but sensibly shaded with purplish. Bill pale yellow, in- 

 clining to brown at the tip. 



The young female is still more sea-green underneath , this 

 color extending over the breast, where it becomes mixed 

 with some brown feathers. Bill like in the old female. 



This species is, like the following, met with in farms, 

 sitting for hours quietly on an isolated twig in the hot 

 suii, only now and then flying off after a wasp or bee 

 and coming back to the same spot again. 



Iris brown , in the younger specimen grayish brown , 

 feet grayish brown. 



Eurystomus gul arts. 



Eurystomus gularis , Vieill. N. Diet. Hist. Nat. XXIX. 

 p. 246; - Hartl. Oru. W. Afr. p. 29 ; — Schl. Mus. P.-B. 

 Coraces, p. 143; — Sharpe , Ibis, 1871, p. 278. 



Hab. West Africa, from the Senegal to the Gaboon. 



Three adult specimens from the St. Pauls River (Bavia 

 and Sofore Place). All three similar in color , but the female 

 specimen distinguished by a sea-green hue , covering the 

 azure gular patch, which is peculiar to the adult male. 



Iris brown , bill orange-yellow , feet grayish flesh-color. 



Alcedo cy anostigma. 



Alcedo cyanostigma ^ Rüpp. Neue Wirbelth., Vög. p. 70, 

 pi. 24, fig. 2 (first plumage). 



Alcedo cristata, Hartl. Orn. W. Afr. p. 36 ; — Schl. Mus. 

 P.-B. Revue x\lced. p. 6. 



Corythornis cristata, Sharpe, Mon. Alced. p. 35, pi. 11. 



Corythornis cy anostigma , Oustalet , Nouv. Arch, du Mus. 

 2e série, II. p. 72; — Boc. Orn. d'Angola, p. 96. 



Hab. The whole of Africa. 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseum, Vol. "VII. 



