348 MAI.IMBUS BARTLETTI 



Total length 7-4 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 4-1, tail 2-5, tarsus 1-0. ^ , 21. 7. 01. 

 Prashu (Alexander). 



Adult female. Differs from the male in the forehead and front half of 

 the crown being velvety black, and no yellow base to the feathers. Wing 

 4-1. S , 15. 9. 00. Kumassi (Alexander). 



Immature male. Like the female, but the fore part of the crown is 

 gradually shading into red, without shedding the feathers, and the yellow 

 base of the feathers appears to be the last change. J , 25. 2. 72. Abouri 

 (Shelley). 



Bartlett's Malimbe ranges from Sierra Leone to tbe Niger 

 River. This is tlie northern representative of M. riihricoUis, 

 with which it has been frequently confounded, and was first 

 separated from that species by Dr. Bowdler Sharpe in 1890. 



The most northern and western range yet known for the 

 species is Sierra Leone, where Mr. Kemp found it " fairly 

 common, frequenting the tops of high trees." At the Sulymah 

 River specimens have been collected by Demery, and according 

 to Mr. Oberholser it is known to the natives of Liberia as the 

 " Way-see-eh." Dr. Biittikofer met with the species fre- 

 quenting the clearings, where it would perch on the isolated 

 trees and stumps to watch for insects, and he remarks that 

 his Liberian specimens agree too closely with one from the 

 Congo to enable him to distinguish M. barfleMi from M. 

 rubricollis. The fairly good series of these birds in the British 

 Museum is qiiite sufficient to enable one to appreciate the 

 characters for separating these two forms. 



It is, apparently, generally distributed over the more thickly 

 wooded parts of the Gold Coast and Togoland. I and my 

 friend, T. E. Buckley, met with it at Abrobonko near Cape 

 Coast and in the forest around Abouri, inland from Accra. 

 Mr. Boyd Alexander obtained specimens at Prahsu, Furasu, 

 Kwissa and Kumassi, and writes : " This species keeps to the 

 thick portions of the forest, and is seldom seen (like other 

 AVeaver-birds) in open spots." In Togoland it has been 



