200 LOBOTOS ORIOLINUS 
Fantee by Governor Ussher, and the other in Ashantee by 
Sir Godfrey Lagden. 
Lobotos oriolinus. 
Lobotos oriolinus, Bates, Bull. B. O. C., xxv. p. 14 (1909) Assobam, 
Cameroon ; Ibis, 1911, p. 535, pl. viii. 
Adult Male. Head, neck, throat and crop black, with a greenish lustre, 
back and wing-coyerts yellowish-olive, becoming more yellow on the rump 
and upper tail-coverts and pure yellow on the nape; quills and primary 
coverts black, the primaries margined with whitish, the secondaries with 
yellow ; middle tail-feathers dusky washed with olive green ; other feathers 
black with broad yellow tips becoming more extensive towards the outer 
pair which are half yellow, under parts bright yellow shaded with orange- 
yellow on the breast, under wing-coverts and axillaries pale yellow. Iris 
dark brown, wattle at gape orange, bill and feet black. Length 8:0, wing 
3:9, tail 3-1, culmen 0-4, tarsus 0°65. Assobam, 3’, type, 8. 12. 08 (Bates). 
Female. Differs in haying the head and neck dusky brown somewhat 
mixed with yellow, the latter colour prevailing on the forehead, the yellow 
of the rump and under parts is less bright and there is no orange on the 
breast. The soft parts including the wattle are coloured as in the male, . 
but the latter is very small and hardly shows in the dried skin. Wing 3°7. 
Assobam, ? (Bates). 
Of this recently described species Mr. Bates writes : 
“These birds were not uncommon at the place where I 
collected, at Assobam on the Bamba River, in the Njiem or 
Lima country near the eastern border of the Cameroon 
Colony. A male was also obtained at a place on the River 
Ja, on the way to the Njiem country. All were adult birds, 
with more or less enlarged breeding-organs and some were 
moulting. The food found in their stomachs was generally 
caterpillars, but sometimes grasshoppers or other insects. 
‘They were inactive birds, and never seen in flight but always 
perched, silent and solitary, among the leaves of small trees. 
Their resemblance in colour to Oriolus laetior is such that 
neither my boys nor I, if we could not see the bill, could 
distinguish them when seen perched in a tree.” 
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