156 ANTHOTHREPTES TEPHROLJEMA. 



it appears to be fairly abundant, for Mr. Biittikofer collected 

 specimens at Schieffelinsville on the Junk river, and at Hill 

 Town. 



From the Gold Coast there are, in the British Museum, 

 nine full plumaged birds, none of which have been sexed by 

 the collectors, so probably they represent adults of both sexes, 

 although perfectly similar in plumage ; they were procured in 

 the Takwa district, in Ashantee, from whence came the type 

 of Nectarinia phseothorax, Hartl., in Fantee, where the type of 

 Nectarinia fantensis, Sharpe, was obtained, and from the Volta 

 river. I met with the species on one occasion in the Aguapim 

 mountains while returning to Abouri from a neighbouring 

 village where the monkeys were held " fetish" or sacred. 



In a flowering creeper which overhung the path, and 

 caught the rays of the sun as it gleamed through the thick 

 forest, I saw a tiny bird actively searching beneath the leaves ; 

 and from its habits, had I not shot the specimen, I should have 

 mistaken it for A. hypodila. 



1 find no mention of the occurrence of this species further 

 along the coast, and from the Niger district southward it is 

 replaced by A. tephrolcema. 



Anthothreptes tephrolaema. 



Anthothreptes tephrolaema (Jard. and Fraser), Gadow, Cat. B. M. ix. 



p. 120 (1884, nee ?) Gaboon, Angola; Keichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 306 



Leopold sville ; id. 1892, p. 191; 1896, p. 39 Camaroons ; Shelley, 



B. Afr. I. No. 80(1896). 

 Anthodiaeta tephrolaema, Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 333, pi. 72, fig 2 (1876). 

 Anthreptes tephrokema, Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. xlvi. (1888) ; id. P. Z. S. 



1888, p. 39 Tingasi; id. Ibis, 1890, p. 163 Yambuya. 



Adults. Very similar to A. rectirostris, but readily distinguished by 

 having the chin and upper throat ashy grey instead of yellow. Total 

 length 33 inches, culmeu 05, wing 2-2, tail 1'3, tarsus - 6. 



