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I'esorting to the tliick forest-trees." On this island Fraser 

 procured the type of his Enpledcs rufovelatus, and wrote : " A 

 very good songster. These birds, although in deep moult (in 

 June) appeared to be pairing." The egg is described by Mr. 

 Nehrkorn as being of a dark l)luish green colour and measuring 

 0-96 X 0-64 



The species is apjjarently scarce in Camaroons, but ranges 

 eastward into Uganda, where Mr. Jackson and Sir Harry 

 Johnston have both collected specimens, which are now in the 

 British Museum. These latter specimens should belong to 

 the M. rubricollis ceidralis, Reichen., the type of which came 

 in the Emin and Stuhlmann Collection from Nduluma ; but 

 in my opinion they cannot be distinguished from the true 

 M. rnhricollis. 



In Gaboon the species was met with l)y Du Chaillu at 

 Cape Lopez and the Carama River. One of Verreaux's 

 specimens from this country, now in the British Museum, is 

 the type of Sycobius tmchalis, Elliot. 



The type of the species was procured on the Loango Coast 

 at Malimba by Perrein and was figured by Vieilliot as the 

 female of Maliiuhns cristatus (Ois. Chant, pi. 43). On tlie 

 Lower Congo the species has been met with by Lucan and 

 Petit at Conde. 



Malimbus bartletti. 



Malimbus bartletti, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. xiii. p. 479 (1890) Gold Coast ; 



Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 480 (1896) ; Reichen. J. f. O. 1902, p. 36 



Togo. 

 Malimbus rubricollis bartletti, Eeichen. Vog. Afr. iii. p. 20 (1904). 

 Malimbus malimbicus (non Daud.), Bartl. Mon. Weaver-birds, pt. iv. p. 1, 



pi. 1 (1889). 



Adult male. General plumage glossy black, with the forehead, crown, 

 back and sides of neck velvety crimson, these crimson feathers having the 

 base, or a bar near the base, yellow. " Iris, bill and legs black" (Kemp). 



