ANTICHROMUS MINUTUS 387 
Antichromus minutus. 
Telephonus minutus, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 292 Ashantee; Gadow, 
Cat. B. M. viii. p. 128 (1883); O. Grant, Ibis, 1904, p. 265 Bure ; 
1905, p. 204 Ankole; Neum. J. f. O. 1907, p. 368; O.-Grant, Trans. 
Zool. Soc. xix. p. 338 (1910) Ruwenzori; Koenig, Ber. Y. Intern. 
Orn. Kongr. 1910, p. 511 White Nile. 
Bocagia minuta, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 749 (1896). ig 
Antichromus minutus, Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 301 (1903); Jackson, 
Ibis, 1906, p. 553 Toro. 
Pomatorhynchus minutus, Reichen. Vég. Afr. ii. p. 552 (1903); Neum. 
J. f. O. 1905, p. 221 Omo River; Reichen. Deutsch. Zentral. Afr. 
Exped. iii. p. 310 (1910) Lake Kivu. 
Pomatorhynchus hartlaubi, Finsch and Hartl. Vég. Ost. Afr. p. 340 
(1870) nom. nud. Ashantee. 
Bocagia potteri, Oust. Bull. Mus. Paris, 1900, p. 225 Bouré, S.-W. 
eee 
Adult male. Upper half of head, with the exception of the ear-coverts, 
glossy jet-black; back of neck and the back cinnamon becoming ochraceous 
on the rump; scapulars and wings mostly bright cinnamon, with a large 
patch of jet-black on the scapulars; inner webs of quills generally dusky, 
but shaft-stripes on the inner secondaries black, with broad pale rufous 
margins, darker than the sandy-buff of the under wing-coverts and axiliaries ; 
tail black, with whitish terminal margins to the feathers and a narrow 
outer edging to the exterior pair of feathers; ear-coverts, cheeks, and 
upper throat white, shading into rich buff on the remainder of the 
under parts. Iris pale red; bill black; feet dusky grey. Total length 
7-0 inches, culmen 0°8, wing 2°9, tail 3:2, tarsus 1:0. Krache, ¢, 
22. 5. 01 (Alexander). 
Adult female. Differs in having a broad white eyebrow extending 
forward to the nostrils, bounded below by a black band through the eye. 
Wing 2:9. Kpong, ? (Alexander). 
Immature male. Has the central part of the crown more or less yellow 
like the bach with black shaft-marks, an ochraceous eyebrow and a pale 
horny bill. Voro, Welle River, 3, 7. 1. 06 (Alexander). 
This species was described by Hartlaub from two specimens 
in the British Museum, one a female from West Africa, col- 
lected by Fraser, the other a male from Ashantee. It ranges 
from the Gold Coast Colony eastwards through Northern 
Nigeria to the western half of Abyssinia and south to 
Portuguese Congo and Uganda. 
