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birds may be always recognized by haying some yellow 
markings on the wing-coverts, and at all ages the black on the 
head of the males is more or less present. 
In the neighbouring German colony of Togoland examples 
of this species have been collected for the Berlin Museum by 
Baumann and Count Zech. 
The bird described by Neumann as C. liberianus is almost 
certainly only a young example of this species. 
Chlorophoneus batesi. 
Chlorophoneus batesi, Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 330 River Ja, Camaroon. 
Adult male. Resembling C. multicolor, but distinguished by its much 
richer coloration ; the red of the lower parts, which is of a brighter shade, 
extends to the under wing- and tail-coverts ; the tail-feathers are black above 
and below, and show no green, and the tail-tips are bright scarlet, not 
orange-red. Length 8-5 inches, culmen 0:6, wing 3:7, tail 3-5, tarsus 0:95. 
Type, River Ja. 25. 3. 06 (Bates). 
Female. The scarlet of the under parts fades into greenish on the 
flanks, and yellow on the abdomen and under tail-coverts; there is no black 
band on the side of the head, and the tail is green like the back and tipped 
with pale orange. Wing 3°7 inches. River Ja. 7. 1. 06 (Bates). 
This species is known only from the original series of two 
males and two females collected by G. L. Bates on the River 
Ja in the interior of Camaroon. 
Chlorophoneus preussi. 
Cosmophoneus preussi, Neum. J. f. O. 1899, p. 393 Victoria. 
Chlorophoneus preussi, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 565 (1903), Atlas pl. 9, 
fig. 1; Sharpe, Handl. B. iv. p. 290 (1903). 
Closely resembling C. multicolor, this species is distinguished by the 
absence of the white on the front of the head and above the eye. The 
whole of the head is grey up to the black surrounding band, but the grey 
is slightly darker posteriorly. Ivis violet (Neumann). 
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