CHLOROPHONEUS MULTICOLOR 
ct, Throat and chest black, contrasting with the 
orange belly . 
b. Black band on the sides ef the Meat ‘Rat Setending 
across the forehead. 
dt, Crown and nape slaty-grey. 
e2, Forehead and eyebrow bright yellow. 
e3, Kar-coverts black . ; 
f°. Har-coverts grey or black fading ate eae 
f?. Forehead slaty-grey like the crown. 
g?. With greenish-yellow tips to the outer 
rectrices, 
a*, A white eyebrow 
64, No white eyebrow . ‘ 
h’, With dark yellow tips to tha outer sicrbese 4 
et, Crown, nape and forehead green like the back, 
lores and eyebrow yellow . 
c. No black band on the sides of the head re af. 
ft. Throat and chestcrimson. . ..... . | 
g*. Underparts yellow, no crimson. 
g?. Crown slaty-grey. 
78, Larger, a little white about the lores 
7%. Smaller, lores and eyebrow yellow . . . | 
h?, Crown green like the back 
hi, Throat and chest cinnamon-brown, no yellow 
Chlorophoneus multicolor. 
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nigrithorax. 
sulfureopectus 3. 
similis 3. 
rubiginosus 3. 
bertrandi 3. 
rudolphi 3. 
olivaceus 3. 
multicolor ?. 
batesi ?. 
melamprosopus 2. 
sulfurerpectus 9. 
similis 2. 
olivaceus 2. 
rubiginosus ¢. 
bertrandi 2. 
rudolphi 2. 
Laniarius multicolor, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 299, pl. 72 (1849); Gadow, Cat. 
B. M. viii. p. 158 (1883). 
Malaconotus multicolor, Shelley, B. Afr. 
Chlorophoneus multicolor, Reichen. Vég. 
Handl., B. iy. p. 290 (1903) ; Kemp, 
i. No. 771 (1896). 
Afr. ii. p. 565 (1903) ; 
Ibis, 1905, p. 
Sharpe, 
234 Bo. 
? Cosmophoneus liberianus, Neumann, J. f. O. 1899, p. 393 Liberia. 
Adult male. 
A broad black band, covering the forehead and sides of head 
and extending half way down the sides of the neck, is margined above with 
white, which extends more or less over the front half of the crown and gradu- 
ally shades into bluish-grey on the hinder half of crown, back of neck and 
upper back ; remainder of back and most of the tail and closed wings green ; 
tail-coverts with some obscure yellowish terminal margins; tail shading 
