1888.] FROM EaUATORIAL AFRICA. 



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Nos. 79, 808. 2 . Tomaja, Aug. 1883. 

 2 c?. Foda, Nov. 1, 1885. 



The specimens show that Latham described the female as Certhia 

 verticalis, Shaw, the male as Certhia cyanocephala. 



113. Anthreptes longuemarii (Less.). 



^nthreptes longuemarii, Shelley, Mon. Sun-birds, p. 335, pi. 108. 



Anthrejites orientalis, Hartl. J. f. O. 1880, p. 213 ; id. Abhandl. 

 nat. Ver. Brem. vii. 1881, p. 109 ; viii. 1882, p. 205 ; Pelz. Verb. 

 Wien, xxxi. 1881, p. 609; xxxii. 1882, p. 501 ; Sharpe, Journ. 

 Linn. See, Zool. xvii. 1884, p. 429. 



No. 765. S- Bongereh, July 22, 1883. 



The British Museum contains eight specimens, which I have 

 compared with two of my own from Lado. My adult male has 

 the lesser wing-coverts brilliant metallic green, which I cannot at 

 all match in any of the other specimens, although a trace of green 

 may be observed in all of them, often so slight as to be easily over- 

 looked. It appears that in my monograph of this family (/. c.) I 

 rightly depicted the adult male and female. The immature male, as 

 shown by Emin Pasha's specimen in this collection, has a rather 

 bright yellow abdomen, and has assumed the metallic purple colour- 

 ing of the head and back before getting the metallic throat or 

 discarding the white eyebrow. This proves, I presume, that Mr. 

 Bohndorff's second specimen from Sassa was a young male, and 

 not a female as Mr. Sharpe records it. 



With regard to size, the following measurements of the culmen 

 and wings of ten specimens will show that no importance can be 

 attached to them : — 



Gambia, 6 ? : culmen 0-6, 0-65; wing 2-95, 2-6. 



Cassamanse, cJ $ $ : culmen 0'65 ; wing 2-95, 2*65, 2'55. 



Sassa, cJad. and probably c? juv. : culmen 0-6, 0-65; wing 2-9, 

 2-()5. 



Bongereh, (S juv. : culmen 06 ; wing 2"75. 



Lado, 2 c? : culmen 0-6, 0-55; wing 2-6, 2-4. 



114. Anthreptes tephrol^ma (Jard. & Selby). 

 Anthreptes tephrolcema, Shelley, Mon. Sun-birds, p. 333, pi. 72. 



fig 2. 



Nos. 24, 27. 6 . Tingasi, Oct. 1883. 



This is another of the species hitherto only known from the west 

 coast. 



115. Anthreptes hypodila (Fraser). 



Anthreptes hypodila, Shelley, Mon. Sun-birds, p. 34.5, pi. 111. 

 figs. 1, 2. 



No. 272. c?. Lado, Oct. 23, 1885. 



No. 30. cJ. Tingasi, July 15, 1883. 



These birds agree perfectly with the West-African specimens, and 

 have no metallic green on the outer webs of tiieir primaries and 

 greater wiug-coverts. 



