YELLOW-THROATED SHORT-FOOT. 261 



covers, inclining to buff. The chin, and half-way 

 down the throat, is pale straw coloured yellow, 

 which graduates on the breast into a fulvous brown, 

 but little lighter than the back. 



Total length, 10 inches; bill from the gape, 1^ ; 

 wings, 4f ; tail beyond, 2| ; ditto from the base, 

 4f ; tarsus, 1 ; hind-toe and claw, ^ ; middle 

 ditto, 1. 



AFRICAN BRISTLE-BILL. 



Dasycephala syndactyla^ SWAINS. 



Olive-brown ; beneath pale yellow ; tail rufous ; wings with 

 the four first quills graduated ; toes syndactyle. 



THE very remarkable bird we are about to describe 

 is, to the ornithologist, one of the most interesting 

 contained in this volume. Although slightly men- 

 tioned on a former occasion*, it has never yet been 

 described ; and indeed the only specimen at present 

 known is in our museum. It was received from 

 Sierra Leone, together with the other species intro^ 

 duced in this volume, many years ago, by Mr. Bul- 

 lock, at whose sale we purchased the whole. 



There cannot, in our opinion, be a doubt that 

 this bird is one of those connecting links by which 

 the genera Dasycephala and Trichophorus are united. 

 * North. Zopl. ii. p. 486. 



