LOBOTOS LOBATUS 199 
Genus I. LOBOTOS. 
An orange pendant wattle at the gape, much larger in the males than in 
the females. Head and neck black, strongly glossed with green in the adult 
males; mantle olive-yellow; lower back and under parts yellow, richly 
shaded with chestnut in the males; tail-feathers with yellow ends. 
Type. 
Lobotos, Reichenb. Syst. Av. pl. 54, fig. 2 (1850) . . . . JZ. lobatus. 
The genus is represented by two species, which are confined to the 
West African subregion. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Under parts rich chestnut. . . . . oe eee Lobatis: 
Under parts yellow, a little orange on the chest we OFLOlINUSS 
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Lobotos lobatus. 
Ceblepyris lobatus, Temm. PI. Col. livr. 47, pls. 279, 280 (1824) Sierra 
Leone. 
Lobotus lobatus, Sharpe, Cat. B. M. iv. p. 58 (1879); Shelley, B. Afr. i. 
No. 673 (1896) ; Reichenb. Vég. Afr. ii. p. 522 (1903). 
Lobotos temmincki, Hartlaub, J. f. “Ol 1854, p. 31, Guinea, 
Adult Male. Head and neck deep glossy green, with a large pendent 
orange wattle at the gape; mantle and wing-coverts olive yellow, brightest 
towards the glossy green of the neck, where it is washed on the sides with 
chestnut ; primary-coverts and quills black, the latter with incomplete pale 
edges, white on the primaries and yellow on the secondaries; under surface 
of quills black with broad white inner margins ; under wing-coverts bright 
yellow; lower back, upper tail-coverts and the breast chestnut, the thighs 
and under tail-coverts bright yellow; tail black, the centre feathers washed 
with olive yellow, and the others have bright yellow ends increasing in 
size towards the outer ones. Iris yellow, bill and feet black. Total 
length 7:3 inches, culmen 0°55, wing 3°7, tail 3:5, tarsus 0°8. Fantee 
(Ussher). 
The Wattled Cuckoo-Shrike ranges from the Gold Coast 
into Cameroon. 
This is a rare species in collections and I can find no 
notes regarding its habits. It is represented in the British 
Museum by two apparently adult males, one procured in 
