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entire crown, nape, and hind neck all round dark slat}- grey ; lores, 

 sides of face, ear-coverts, cheeks, and uuder surface of body paler 

 slaty grey, much lighter on the centre of the abdomen ; sides of 

 body and flanks reddish brown ; under tail-coverts light ashy grey, 

 with hoary whitish edgings ; axillaries and under wing-coverts ashy 

 white, slightly washed with reddish or tawny buff; quills dusky 

 brown below, ashy fulvous along the inner web ; bill bluish, with the 

 culmen and tip blackish horn-colour ; feet and claws leaden grey ; 

 iris dusky crimson. Total length 5*8 inches, culmen 0"55, wing 

 2-85, tail 2'6, tarsus 0*9. 



3. Lioptilus olivascens (Cass.) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. iv. p. 2b'3. 



The original specimen of Cassin's Parisoma olivascens came from 

 Gaboon, and I refer with some hesitation an example collected by 

 the late Governor Ussher, in Fantee, to this species. There are 

 various small discrepancies between the specimen in question and 

 Cassin's description, which, however, it is scarcely worth while to 

 go into, as the identity of the Gaboon and Gold-Coast Lioptili can 

 only be settled by an actual comparison of specimens from the two 

 localities. 



4. Lioptilus galinieri. 



Parisoma galinieri, Guerin, Rev. Zool. 1843, p. 162; id. in 

 Ferret et Galin. Voy. Abyss. Ois. vol. iii. p. 223, pi. 13 (1847) ; Gray, 

 Gen. B. i. p. 194 (1847); Bp. Consp. i. p. 256 (1850). 



Parisoma frontale (uec Heugl.), Riipp. Syst. Uebers. p. 43, 

 pi. 22(1845). 



Crateropus melodus, Heugl. J. f. O. 1862, p. 29. 



JEgithalopsis galinieri, Heine, J. f. O. 1859, p. 431 ; Heugl. Orn. 

 N.O.-Afr. i. p. 395 (1869). 



Adult. General colour above dark ashy olive-brown ; wing-coverts 

 like the hack, the outer median ones rather clearer ashy ; bastard- 

 wing and primary-coverts uniform blackish brown ; quills blackish 

 brown, externally edged with ashy brown, paler towards the ends of 

 the primaries ; inner secondaries much browner ; tail dark brown ; 

 head like the back, except on the forehead, which is hoary grey ; 

 lores dusky blackish, extending in a line just above the eye ; feathers 

 below the latter dusky ; eyelid dull whitish ; sides of face, ear- 

 coverts, and cheeks dull ashy brown, rather clearer ashy on the 

 breast and abdomen ; lower flanks washed with orange-chestnut, 

 like the vent and under tail-coverts ; thighs dull ashy, washed with 

 orange-chestnut ; under wing-coverts and axillaries dull ashy ; quills 

 dusky below, ashy whitish along the edge of the inner web ; " bill 

 black, the cutting-edges of the mandibles whitish; orbits bare and 

 of a lilac colour ; feet rufescent dusky ; iris crimson " (Heugliri). 

 Total length 6'7 inches, culmen 0*6, wing 345, tail 3'2, tarsus 1*05. 



Spec, in Mus. Brit. 

 a. Ad. sk. Shoa. Dr. Ruppell [C.]. 



6. Ad. sk. Shoa (Harris). India Museum. 



