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plate (Gray^ Gen. Bds. i. 1849, pi. Ixii.) shows that there 

 is no ivhite between the black of the brow and sides of 

 the head and the grey of the crown, the grey cap merely 

 becoming paler at the edges. The plate of C. preussi (Neum.) 

 given by Reichenow (Vog. Afr. taf. ix. 1) agrees with that 

 oi L. multicolor in Gray's ' Genera of Birds/ except that in 

 the latter the grey of the crown is shown of a bluer shade. 



The descriptions of C. multicolor have therefore all been 

 MTong with regard to this point, and C. preussi (Neum.) 

 must become a synonym of C. multicolor (Gray). 



It does not appear to me to be possible to separate as a 

 species or subspecies the specimens which have a certain 

 amount of white between the grey crown and the black 

 band, as an examination of the small series in the British 

 Museum (the type marked " W. Africa" only, four speci- 

 mens from the Gold Coast, one from Sierra Leone collected 

 by Robin Kemp, and two from the same colony in my own 

 collection) shews that there is a gradation between the 

 typical form with an almost uniform grey crown without 

 white border, and a form with almost pure white forehead 

 and borders to the grey crown. This variation is probably 

 due to wear. 



One of my specimens, which appears to be an immature 

 bird of this species, has the brow and a very faint supercilium 

 pale ochreous slightly flecked with black, the lores, cheeks_, 

 and ear-coverts mottled black and grey, while the red of the 

 chin and throat is of an orange tinge and is flecked with 

 black. 



This bird appears to be scarce in Sierra Leone as, during 

 a residence of two years in that colony, I only saw the two 

 specimens which I obtained. 



Chaunonotus sabinei. 



This is a scarce bird, as, during two years, I only saw 

 two or three individuals besides the five specimens (four 

 males and one female) which I obtained. One example was 

 shot in heavy forest, the others in thick scrubby bush. 

 I cannot distinguish between this and the subspecies 

 C s. melanoleucus (Verr.) mentioned by Shelley. 



