CHLOROPHONEUS RUBIGINOSUS 431 
(Delamere); Abyssinta—Hoorsa and Lake Zwai (Degen), 
Roguecha (Pease) ; Egyptian Sudan—ULake Tinero (Zaphiro) ; 
French Congo—Mombattu country and Shari River (Alexander). 
Chlorophoneus rubiginosus. 
Malaconotus rubiginosus, Sundey. Oefy. Vet. Akad. Forh. Stockh. 1850, 
p. 106 Caffraria inferior (t.e., Natal). 
Laniarius rubiginosus, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 160 (1885); Stark and 
W. Sclater, Bds. S. Afr. i. p. 37 (1901); Shortridge, Ibis, 1904, 
p. 183 Pondoland; C. H. Taylor; J. S. Afr. Orn. Union, 1907, 
p. 20 EHrmelo; Haagner and Ivy, ibid, p. 90, pl. iii. fig. 10 (egg), 
Albany. 
Pelicinius rubiginosus, Shelley, B. Afr. i. No. 766 (1896). 
Chlorophoneus rubiginosus, Reichen. Vog. Afr. ii. p. 558 (1903); Sharpe, 
Handl. B. iv. p. 292 (1903); W. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1911, p. 289 Zululand 
and Transvaal. 
Malaconotus oleagineus, Licht. Nom. p. 12 (1854) nom. nud. 
Laniarius maraisi, W. L. Sclater, Ibis, 1901, p. 183, pl. 6 ywv. Knysna. 
Chlorophoneus maraisi, Sharpe, Handl. B. iy. p. 292 (1903). 
L’Oliva, Levaillant, Ois. d’Afr. ii. p. 107, pl. 75, fig. 2, pl. 76, fig. 1. 
Adult male. Sides of the forehead, lores, and an eyebrow extending back 
from above the eye white; remainder of sides of head and a band down the 
side of neck black; crown and hind neck lead-grey; back and wings 
uniform green; quills beneath dusky blackish with sulphur-yellow inner 
margins: under wing-coyerts a slightly darker yellow; tail black fading 
into green towards the outer feathers and some pale yellow ends, mostly 
confined to the inner webs; throat and chest buffy-cinnamon; abdomen 
and under tail-coverts white, thighs shaded with olive; flanks more ashy, 
with obsolete olive tinted bars. ‘Ivis hazel; bill black; feet grey ” (Short- 
ridge). Total length 7 inches, culmen 0°65, wing 3:2, tail 3:2, tarsus 1:0. 
3, Durban (Gordge). 
Female. Differs in having the black of the head and neck replaced by 
grey of scarcely a darker shade than the crown; tail green, scarcely darker 
than the back, and the pale portion confined to a few narrow, yellowish, 
terminal and inner margins to the feathers; flanks showing traces of 
barring. Bill fading into palish horn-colour towards the base of the lower 
mandible. Wing 3:25. Newcastle, 9, 29. 7.81 (A. K. Butler). 
Immature. Olive green above, including the wings and tail, below the 
throat dull white, the rest of the under parts washed with olive, the breast 
with transverse mottlings of dusky, less marked on the flanks. Macamac, 
10. 12. 74 (Ayres). 
