CLASSIFICATION. xlvii 



Page 335. Anthreptes longuemarii. Add: — 

 Anthreptes longuemarii, Oust. N. Arch. Mus. i, p. 152 (1878). 

 Anthothreptes longuemarii, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 227. 



M. Oustalet (I. c.) was the first to record this species from Los Island, close to the coast to 

 the north of Sierra Leone, and remarks that the specimen agrees perfectly with others from 

 Casamanse. 



Professor Barboza du Bocage kindly forwarded to me for examination a male and female 

 from Caconda, in Benguela ; and I found them to agree perfectly with the specimens I figured 

 and described from Casamanse. 



Since I wrote my original article the range of this species has been found to extend into the 

 Zanzibar province of Eastern Africa, where Dr. Hildebrandt has procured it at Ndi, in the 

 Taita country, as recorded by Dr. Cabanis (I.e.); and in my own collection I have a specimen 

 collected by Dr. Fischer at Massa on the 5th November 1878. This specimen, an adult male, 

 agrees well with my former description, excepting in its somewhat smaller size : total length 

 4 - 6 inches, culmen 055, wing 2"5, tail 2, tarsus 0"7. 



Page 337. Anthreptes aurantia. Add : — 



Anthreptes aurantius, Oust. Bull. Soc. Philom. 7th series, i, p. 106 (1877); id. N. Arch. 

 Mus. i, p. 94 (1878). 



Two specimens in the late Marquis of Tweeddale's cabinet, collected by DuChaillu, and both 

 labelled " 6 juv., Camma River, 1858," I shall here describe fully, as there are some interesting 

 points to be remarked in their plumages. 



a. Upper parts, including the least and median series of wing-coverts and the ear-coverts, 

 metallic golden-green strongly shaded with steel-blue on the ear-coverts, sides and back of the 

 neck, upper back, and upper tail-coverts; remainder of the wings dark brown, glossed with 

 green ; the quills edged with olive-yellow ; a few of the innermost secondaries, the greater and 

 primary wing-coverts edged with metallic green, strongly shaded with gold ; tail violet-shaded 

 blue, with the edges of the feathers metallic bluish green ; in front of the eye a small triangular 

 patch of black feathers ; sides of the forehead, a broad eyebrow, cheeks, chin, throat, and front 

 of the chest white slightly washed with brownish buff; remainder of the under surface of the 

 body yellow ; pectoral tufts bright yellow slightly shaded with orange ; under surface of the 

 wings brown, with pale inner margins to the quills, and the coverts white. Total length 4*3' 

 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2'35, tail T7, tarsus 0*7. 



b. Upper parts ashy brown tinted with olive on the back ; wings brown, all the feathers 

 edged with olive-yellow ; tail dark brown, strongly washed with violet, shaded with green, a 

 few of the outer feathers with pale ends ; a triangular patch of feathers in front of the eye and 

 the upper half of the ear-coverts ashy brown like the crown ; sides of the forehead, front half of 

 a broad eyebrow, cheeks, lower half of the ear-coverts, and the chin buff; remainder of the 

 eyebrow and throat white; under surface of the body very pale yellow; under wing-coverts 

 white tinted with yellow. Total length 4-2 inches, culmen 0-6, wing 2-4, tail 1-8, tarsus 0-68. 



