CAMPEPHAGA QUISCALINA 203 
Adult female. Forehead, crown and back of neck ashy grey, passing 
into uniform olive yellow on the back, scapulars, wing-coverts and edges of 
quills; tail pale olive-shaded brown fading into sulphur yellow along the 
outer margin, and towards the ends of the four outer pairs of feathers; sides 
of forehead whitish and a narrow bar over the eyes as well as the eyelids 
white ; a black band through the eye from the gape; cheeks, ear-coverts, 
chin and upper throat white; remainder of under parts golden yellow; 
under wing-coverts and pale incomplete margins to the quills bright yellow, 
slightly paler than the breast; remainder of quills dark brown. Total 
length 7:4 inches, culmen 0:65, wing 3:7, tail 3-7, tarsus 0'7. Wasa 9, 3.73 
(Blissett). 
Immature. Similar to the adult female but mottled with the black 
feathers of the adult Ekrafull ¢ (Blissett); or with an irregular amount 
of dark bars on the hind neck, back, wing-coverts, breast and under tail- 
coverts. Denkera (Aubinn). 
Apparently the younger the bird, the more numerous are the dark bars, 
and the males assume the plumage of the adult females before acquiring 
any black feathers. 
The Purple-throated Cuckoo-Shrike ranges from Sierra 
Leone into Angola, and eastward to 36° H. long. 
In August, 1903, Mr. Kemp obtained an adult male near 
Bo, in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, but in his paper 
he confused it with a Glossy Starling. He writes: “It was 
by itself, late in the afternoon, and kept making a singular, 
rather plaintive note.” This is the first record of the species 
from so far north, and in Liberia it has been obtained at 
Messurado and Oldfield only. It is perhaps most abundant 
from the Gold Coast to Camaroon, for the British Museum 
contains several specimens from Fantee, including the type. 
There are also specimens collected by Blissett at Wasa and 
Ekrafull, two of Aubinn’s from Denkera and one from Accra. 
T. E. Buckley shot the male here described at Abouri in 
the Aguapim Mountains, where Dr. Reichenow obtained 
the type of his C. fulgida, and more recently Dr. Bittner 
has met with the species in Togoland. 
In Camaroon Mr. Sjéstedt saw it occasionally near 
Ekundu, frequenting the bush, and obtained a young bird 
