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Adult Female. Upper parts olive, as well as the sides of tlie head and neck, the wing-coverts, and the tail ; 

 eyebrow and a streak below the eye sulphur-yellow ; quills edged with pale olive-yellow ; underparts 

 nearly uniform huffish yellow; under surface of the wings dark brown, with the coverts and inner 

 margins of the quills white, the former washed with sulphur-yellow. Total length 3'4 inches, culmen 

 0-55, wing 1-85, tail 1% tarsus 0'6. 



Young Male. Similar to the adult female, but partially glossed with the metallic green of the adult plumage ; 

 back of the head and nape shaded with ash ; eyebrow and feathers encircling the eye pale yellow ; chin 

 and throat ashy white; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts sulphur-yellow. Total length 3" 70 

 inches, culmen - 5, wing 2, tail 14, tarsus 06. 



Hab. Western Africa. 



In the genus Anthodioeta there are two minor groups in which the adult males have the plumage 

 of the upper parts metallic green : in one of these, which includes A. collaris, A. hypodila, and 

 A. zambesiana, the females and young have the upper parts similar to those of the adult male ; 

 in the other, to which the present, species and A. tcphrolcema belong, the females and young have 

 the upper parts non-metallic. The adult male of this species may be readily recognized by the 

 yellow chin and upper throat encircled by metallic-green plumes which cover the lower throat 

 and sides of the neck. 



It inhabits West Africa, north of the line ; and, with the exception of an immature male 

 labelled " Gambia " in the British Museum, I am not acquainted with an instance of its capture 

 beyond the Gold-Coast district — from Cape-Coast Castle to Aguapim. In the latter district I 

 met with it myself on one occasion while returning to Abouri from a neighbouring village, where 

 the monkeys were held " fetish " or sacred. In a flowering creeper which overhung the path, 

 and caught the rays of the sun as it gleamed through the thick forest, I saw a tiny bird actively 

 searching beneath the leaves ; and from its habits, had I not shot the specimen, I should have 

 mistaken it for A. hypodila. 



Although this bird is generally known by Dr. Hartlaub's title of phceothoratc, that name 

 must give place to the older one, rectirostris of Shaw, which was described in 1811 from Audebert 

 and Vieillot's plate in the ' Oiseaux Dores.' The description there given, although agreeing suf- 

 ficiently with this bird, is not very clear; and the figure is liable to mislead, as the green base 

 to the throat and the reddish yellow partial collar are hidden. 



In the ' Galerie des Oiseaux,' however, the figure is very good and quite unmistakable ; and 

 the description there given is the same as in the ' Oiseaux Dores ;' so that the two illustrations 

 undoubtedly belong to the same species, and may have been taken from the same specimen. 



As has been shown by Dr. Hartlaub, Mr. Sharpe's title of fantensis also sinks into a 

 synonym. From an examination of the specimens in Mr. Sharpe's collection, I find that the 

 bird on the strength of which he introduced A. tej)hrolcema as an inhabitant of the Gold-Coast 

 district is an immature example of A. rectirostris. He tells me that M. Jules Verreaux agreed 

 with him in the determination ; but, notwithstanding the authority of two such good naturalists, 

 I have no doubt as to the species to Avhich the example belongs. Dr. Hartlaub described his 

 Xt'ctarinia phwothorax from two specimens in the Bremen Museum from Ashantee. 



