PYTELIA CITERIOR 271 
Adult male. Forehead, sides of head, chin and upper third of throat 
bright scarlet ; crown, back and sides of neck ashy grey; mantle, middle 
back and wings uniform olive-tinted yellow, with the inner portion of the 
quills brown ; upper tail-coverts crimson-shaded scarlet ; tail black strongly 
washed on the outer webs of the feathers with crimson ; under wing-coverts 
white, with a few brown bars and the pinion shaded with yellow, and occa- 
sionally one or two scarlet feathers; inner edges of the quills buff; remain- 
ing two-thirds of the throat and the crop bright yellow, passing into white 
on the breast; crop obscurely, and the chest and sides of the abdomen 
sharply, barred with dusky brown; thighs and under tail-coverts entirely 
white. ‘Iris, tarsi and feet light brown; bill dull red’”’ (Witherby). Total 
length 4:6 inches, culmen 0°45, wing 2:2, tail 1:8, tarsus 0°6. g, St. 
Louis (Laglaise). 
Adult female. Differs from the male in having no red or yellow on the 
head and throat; forehead ashy brown like the crown, sides of head paler 
ash; chin and throat white, with narrow ashy brown bars most strongly 
marked on the lower half, where they are as broad as the alternate bars of 
white; the dark bars on the body are paler, slightly broader, and more 
confined to the sides of the body. Wing 2°3. Senegambia (Whiteley). 
Subspecies, Pytelia jesset. 
Distinguished from P. citerior by the white on the feathers towards the 
crop inclining to rounded spots in full plumaged males, in the breast being 
more strongly barred in both sexes, and in the under tail-coverts generally 
showing traces of bars. Wing2:3. ¢g, 27.7.68, Anseba (Jesse); 9 ,4.2. 68, 
Annesley Bay (Blanford). 
The Senegal Yellow-throated Pytelia ranges from the 
Senegal River to Old Calabar, eastward to the Nile, and is 
represented in Northern Abyssinia by an extremely nearly 
allied subpsecies, P. jessei. 
Of the typical form there are, in the British Museum, three 
adult males and a female from Senegambia, including one 
obtained by Laglaise at St. Louis; also a cock and two hens 
from the Nile. ‘The type is one of Verreaux’s specimens from 
Casamanse, and Beauduin procured the species at Bissao. In 
Togoland it has been met with by Dr. Biittner at Bismarck- 
burg, and to this species probably belong the ‘“‘ P. melba,” 
recorded in Falkenstein’s collection from Bonny and Old 
Calabar. 
