346 MALIMBUS RUBRICOLLIS 



Z)i. Uuder tail-coverts red. 



c". Breast black ; lower throat red scutatus. ^ • ^ 



d-. Breast red erythrocj aster. 7 ^r- 



h. Plumage with some yellow ; under tail-coverts yellow . rachelia. J"v-j^ 



Malimbus rubricollis. 



Ploeeus rubricollis, Swains. An. in Menag. p. 306 (1838) Malimba. 



Malimbus rubricollis, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 478 (1890) ; Nehrkorn, 

 Kat. Eiers. p. 131 (1899) egg ; Eeichen, Vog. Afr. iii. p. 19 (1904). 



Tanagra malimbica, Dand. Ann. Mus. i. p. 151, pi. 10, fig. 2 (1802, ? 

 nee 3). 



Malimbus malimbicus, Oberholser, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 17 (1899) 

 Gamaroons. 



Malimbus cristatus, Vieill. Ois. Chant, p. 71, pi. 43 (1805, ? nee J ). 



" Textor malimbus, Temm." Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 24, note (1823) nom. 

 mid. 



Malimbus malimbus, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 479 (1896). 



Fringilla textrix, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 24, note (1823) nom. nud. 



Euplectes rufovelatus, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 142 Fernando Po. 



Textor rufovittatus, Eyton {lajis. cal.), Cat. Coll. p. 245 (1856). 



Sycobius nuchalis, Elliot, Ibis, 1859, p. 393 Gaboon. 



" Malimbus occipitalis, Elliot," Gray, Handl. B. ii. p. 43 (1870) nom. 

 nud. 



Malimbus rubricollis centralis, Eeichen. Orn. Monatsb. 1893, p. 30, 

 Nduluma; id. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 21 (1904). 



Malimbus centralis, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 481 (1806). 



Adult male. Black, with the entire forehead, crown, back and sides of 

 neck and end portion of ear-coverts rich scarlet ; under surface of quills ashy 

 black, slightly paler on the inner margins. " Iris hazel ; bill and feet black " 

 (Jackson). Total length 69 inches, culmeu 08, wing 4-25, tail 2-7, tarsus 

 1-0. S , 12. 11. 02. Fernando Po (Alexander). 



Adult female. Differs only in the forehead and front of crown being 

 black. Wing 4-0. 2 , 21. 10. 02. Fernando Po (Alexander). 



Immature. Similar to the female, from which it differs in having the 

 forehead, front of crown, sides of head, chin and throat mottled with black 

 and scarlet. Bill and feet brown. 



Swaiiison's Malimbe ranges from Fernando Po and Cama- 

 roons to the Congo and eastward into Uganda. 



On the island of Fernando Po the species is, according to 

 Mr. Boyd Alexander, " Common at the foot of the hill-ranges. 



