336 BIRDS OF SOUTH AFRICA. 
received it from the neighbourhood of Durban and Pinetown. Mr. 
F. A. Barratt procured specimens between Macamac and Lyden- 
burg. 
Adult male.—General colour above dull olive-yellow, yellower on 
the back, all the feathers being brown towards the base: the head 
browner than the back, the yellow margins not so broad: wing- 
coverts and quills very dark brown, all margined with dull olive- 
yellow: tail rather ighter brown, the feathers margined with olive 
yellow, paler and inclining to whitish at the tip of the outermost: 
feathers in front of the eye bright lemon yellow: ear-coverts olive 
with narrow shaft-lines of bright yellow: cheeks, sides of neck, and 
entire under surface of body, including the thighs and under wing- 
and tail-coverts bright yellow, the flanks slightly washed with olive- 
brown: “bill dusky, the under mandible yellow: tarsi and feet 
dusky: iris hazel” (Ayres). Total length, 4°9 inches ; culmen, 0°55; 
wing, 2°4; tail, 2°35; tarsus, 0°5. 
Adult female.—Similar to the male, but not quite so bright. 
Total length, 5 inches; wing, 2°3; tail, 2:3; tarsus, 0°85. 
Fig. Smith, Ill. Zool. S. Afr. Aves, pl. 112, fig. 2. 
321. CHLOROPETA ICTERINA. Icterine Flycatcher. 
This species is described from Natal by Prof. Sundevall (Oefy. K. 
Vet. Akad. Forh. Stockh. 1850, p. 105) as being closely allied to 
C. natalensis (which he states to have been also sent by Wahlberg), 
but differing specifically. He gives the following diagnosis of the 
species :— Bright yellowish green: underneath very bright yellow: 
a yellowish streak above the lores: thigh-plumes very bright yellow. 
Total length, 5} inches ; wing, 2°45; tail, 2:4; tarsus, 0°85. 
322. {YLIOTA VIOLACEA. . Violet Flycatcher. 
This West African Flycatcher has been procured by Senor 
Anchieta at Caconda in Bengnela, and therefore comes within our 
limits. The following description is translated from Dr. Hartlaub’s 
work on the Birds of West Africa, as we have not been able to 
examine a specimen :—Above steel black, somewhat purplish: some 
of the greater wing-coverts nearest to the back white; underneath 
pale buffish yellow; thighs black; bill rather broad, black, as also 
the feet; wings very long; tail moderate, square, black. Total 
