NEOLESTES TORQUATUS 405 
Genus VIII. NKHOLESTEHS. 
Type. 
Neolestes, Cab., J. f. O. 1875, p. 237 N. torquatus, 
This genus comes near Chlorophoneus and Telophorus, but the bill is short 
and slender and the culmen and gonys are gently down curved throughout ; the 
nostrils are semilunar in shape, have a well developed operculum and are 
quite exposed ; rictal-bristles large; wing rounded, the first primary a little 
more than half the second, the fourth and sixth the longest; tail slightly 
rounded and about equal to the wing. 
The genus contains only a single species. 
Neolestes torquatus. 
Neolestes torquatus, Cab. J. f. O. 1875, p. 237, pl. i fig. 1, Chinchonao , 
Gadow, Cat. B.M. viii. p. 171 (1883); Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 556 
(1903) ; Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 229 (1903). 
Pelicinius torquatus, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 765 (1896). 
Adult male. General colour above yellowish-green, the wing and tail- 
feathers dusky, washed and edged with yellowish-green ; forehead, crown 
and nape slaty grey, bordered on either side by a black band running 
from the base of the bill through the eye to above the ear-coverts and thence 
passing downward and forming a broad black gorget with a steel blue gloss 
covering the whole of the crop; ear-coverts, cheeks, throat and rest of 
under parts white, tinged with buffy and becoming olivaceous on the flanks 
and thighs; under wing-coverts butty-yellowish becoming brighter yellow 
on the front portion and on the bend of the wing, which is quite bright 
yellow. Iris dark brown, bill greenish black, legs dark olive green. Length 
6:5 inches, wing 2:9, tail 2°6, culmen 0°45, tarsus 0°7. N’Dalla Tando, 
$, 15. 9. 08 (Ansorge). 
Female. Resembles the male, but is smaller. Wing 2:8, tail 2-5. 
N’Dalla Tando, ¢ (Ansorge). 
Immature. Has the head and neck green like the back; the feathers 
of the back and the wing-coverts are tipped with rufous and the black gorget 
is duller black (Reichenow). 
This little Shrike is known from northern Angola, the 
lower Congo region and from the Lake Kivu district of Central 
Africa. 
It was first discovered by Falkenstein at Chinchonxo in 
Portuguese Congo and was subsequently collected by Lucan 
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