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This bird differs from Jardine and Selby’s Platyrhynchus Desma- 
restit, Ill. Orn., vol. 1. pl. 9. fig. 2, in having the chestnut back and 
wings and the short black tail. 
PLATYSTEIRA LEUCOPYGIALIS. Platys. (mas) capite, genis, collo, 
dorso, alis, caudd et vittd latd pectorali, sic et femoribus e ceruleo 
nigris, uropygio, guld et abdomine albis. 
Long. tot. 4 unc. ; rostri, 55; ale, 25%; caude, 9; tarsi, ;6. 
Hab. Clarence, Fernando Po. 
Found in the same situations as P. castanea. 
Fleshy appendages around the eye, red; irides, red hazel; bill, 
black ; legs, purplish : the gizzard contained insects. 
This bird differs from Jardine and Selby’s Platyrhynchus collaris, 
Ill. Orn., vol. i. pl. 9. fig. 1, in having a white rump, the wings en- 
tirely black, the band across the chest much broader, and the fleshy 
appendage around the eye red. 
Puocevs couuaris. Ploc. vertice, capitis lateribus, et mento, nigris, 
torque collari lato, castaneo; rostro nigro, tarsis fuscescentibus, 
reliquis partibus aurantiaco, olivaceo et fuscescente variegatis, 
Fere ut in Ploceo textore (vide Ploceus Textor, Swains.). 
Long. tot. 73%; unc. ; rostri, 1,%,; ale, 4; caude, 34; tarsi, 15. 
Hab: apud Insulam St. Thomas, Afric. occid. 
This bird differs from P. tevtor in being of a greater size, in having 
the chestnut collar encircling the neck, and the general colouring of 
the body being less vivid. 
EurLectes RUFOVELATUS. Huplec. (mas) vertice et nuchd, nitide 
rubris, colore rubro in latera colli ducto; corpore in toto nigro, 
iridibus e corylo rubris, tarsis et rostro nigris. 
Long. tot. 7 unc. ; rostri, 1; ale, 4; caude, 2% ; tarsi, 1. 
Hab. Clarence, Fernando Po. 
A very good songster. ‘These birds, although in deep moult (in 
June), appeared to be pairing. One specimen was shot from the top 
of a yery lofty tree, the others much nearer the ground. In an ap- 
parently young male the black extends across the forehead. 
