444 Mr. G. R. Gray on a few West-African Birds. 



Zosterops [Speirops) melanocephalus. 



Mouse-colour, washed with olivaceous ; head sooty black, with 

 a spot on each side between the nostril and eye ; mentum and 

 under wing-coverts white ; beneath the body pale obscure grey, 

 tinged with olivaceous ; quills and tail fuscous-black, the former 

 margined outwardly with grey. Bill and feet whitish horn- 

 colour. 



Total length, 4" 9'"; wings, 2" 5"'; tarsi, 9'"; bill, from 

 gape, 7'". 



Trichophorus tephrolcrnim. 



Yellowish-olive; head and throat slate-colour, darker on the 

 head; abdomen yellow; breast, sides, and under tail-coverts 

 olivaceous-yellow; quills fuscous-black, with outer webs oliva- 

 ceous, the inuer web margined near the base with buff; tail dull 

 olivaceous, the end of the outer feather slightly tipped with 

 yellow ; bill black ; feet plumbeous. 



Total length, 7" 6'"; wings, 3" 3"'; tarsi, 10"; bill, from 

 gape, 10"'. 



Closely allied to Trichophorus canicapillus, Hartl. ; but the 

 throat is pale ash-colour. 



Euplectes phcenicomerus. 



Black ; rump and wing-coverts pale clear yellow ; under wing- 

 coverts pale rufou s- white ; thighs pale brown. 



Like E, xanthomelas ; but the yellow on the rump and wings 

 is paler, and the thighs are pale brown instead of black. 



Total length, 5" 3'"; wings, 2" 10"' ; tarsi 11'"; bill, from 

 gape, 7^'". 



Ligurnus^ olivaceus, Hartl. 

 Coccothraustes olivaceus, Fras., Proc. Z. S. 1842, p. 144. 



Adult male yellowish-olivaceous ; head and throat deep black; 

 sides and a narrow band round the neck, rump, and beneath the 

 body bright orange-yellow ; quills black, with the tertials and 

 larger wing-coverts margined outwardly with bright yellow, and 

 the quills inwardly with white ; tail olivaceous-green, with each 

 feather margined on the sides and tip with bright yellow ; bill 

 orange ; feet pale. 



The female agrees with Mr. Fraser's typical specimen, said 



* Ligurnus rufobrunneus. 



Rufous-brown, slightly darker along the shaft of each feather j wings 

 and tail dull brown, margined with rufous-brown ; beneath the body much 

 paler, varied in some places with darker j bill and feet horn-colour. 



Length, 6" ; wings, 3" 5'" ; tarsi, 9'" ; bill, from gape, 7'". 



This bird has been many years in the collection of the British Museum. 

 It was brought to this country from Western Africa by Capt. (now Major- 

 General) Sabine, R.A., and was presented by him to that institution. 



