418 CHLOROPHONEUS 
the rest of the body, including the wing-coverts and tail, olive-green; wing 
quills black with olive green outer and yellow inner edges. Iris grey, bill 
black, legs leaden grey. Length 10:6 inches, culmen 1:3, wing 4:7, tail 4:7, 
tarsus 1:4 (Reichenow). 
Preuss’s Grey-headed Bush-Shrike is only known to me by 
the description of the type, which was discovered by Preuss 
at Buea in Camaroon at an elevation of between 3,000 and 
4,000 feet above the sea. 
Genus X. CHLOROPHONEIUS. 
Bill moderate, not specially stout, never 0:4 inch deep; in other 
structural characters resembling Malaconotus ; plumage green or green and 
slaty above, generally yellow or orange below, always with yellow under 
wing-coverts and axillaries, and a yellow lining to the quills and without a 
black gorget ; sexes differing; the males always with a black band on the 
side of the head. 
Type. 
Chloroph oneus, Cat. Mus. Hein. i. p. 70 (1850) . . . C. rubiginosus. 
Cosmophoneus, Neumann, J. f. O. 1899, p. 392 . . . GC. multicolor. 
This genus, containing thirteen distinguishable species and subspecies, is 
confined to tropical and south Africa. 
KEY TO THE SPECIKS. 
a. A black frontal band extending back through the eye 
to the ear-coverts. 
a1, Under parts crimson red. 
a?, Crown white, becoming grey on the nape and 
mautle. 
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68. Crimson fading into yellowish on the ab- 
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b2. No white on the crown. . preusst. 
61, Under parts yellow or orange, no crimson or black. 
c2, Forepart of crown and eyebrow white, tail black melamprosopus 3. 
d*. No white on the crown, tail green. 
c®, Breast yellow, becoming more greenish on 
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d%, Breast rich orange contrasting with the 
greenish flanks ....... =... =. manningi. 
