TELOPHORUS VIRIDIS 397 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
a. Forehead and front of crown red; throatred . . . . . dohertyt. 
b. Forehead and a narrow eyebrow yellow. 
at. Throat red. 
a2, Abdomen green with a narrow dull crimson central 
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b2. Abdomen bright yellow, green confined to the flanks . qwadricolor. 
61. Throat yellow, crown grey. . . ...... . . geylonus. 
Telophorus viridis. 
Laniarius viridis, Vieill. N. D. xiii. p. 300 (1817) Malimbe ; Gadow, Cat. 
B. M. viii. p. 165 (1883). 
Pelicinius viridis, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 764 (1896). 
Chlorophoneus viridis, Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 291 (1903). 
Lanius gutturalis, Daudin, Ann. Mus. Paris, iii, 1804, p. 148, pl. 15 
Malimbe. 
Chlorophoneus gutturalis, Bocage, Jorn. Lisboa xii. 1887, p.96 Quissange ; 
Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 566 (1903). 
Le Piegriéche Perrin, Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. vi. p. 124, pl. 286 (1808) 
Matimbe. 
Adult. A wide orange forehead fading into yellow on the sides and over 
the eyes; crown and end half of ear-coverts, hinder half of neck, back, wings 
and upper tail-coverts uniform green; tail entirely black; inner lining of 
wings dusky grey, washed with green on most of the coverts; chin and 
throat crimson-shaded scarlet, enclosed by a black gorget which extends 
from the nostrils down the sides of the neck and widens out over the lower 
throat and crop; next to the black gorget, on the chest, is a marginal 
crescent of crimson-shaded scarlet followed by an incomplete border of 
chocolate-brown, which colour extends in a narrow band down the breast 
to the under tail-coverts, which are crimson; remainder of breast green, 
slightly paler and yellower than the back. Iris brown, bill and feet black. 
Total length 8:2 inches, culmen 0:8, wing 3:2, tail 3:3, tarsus 1:2. Landana 
(Lucan and Petit). 
The sexes are alike; a young bird has the tail olive green, the crimson 
replaced by yellow, and the gorget grey. 
Perrin’s Bush-Shrike was first brought to Europe by 
M. Perrin, of Bordeaux, from Malimbe in Portuguese Congo, 
and described by Daudin, Le Vaillant and Vieillot. Falkenstein 
