' Hah. Guinea {Swainson), Gold Coast {Pel), Gaboon ( Verreaux), Fantee and Asliantee 
{Mus. R. B. Sharpe), St. George d'Elmina (Schkgel). 
The immature bird of this species has been described as distinct under the name of 
T. fiavipimdata by Verreaux in the " Journal fur Ornitholigie" (III ), p. 103. The birds are 
found in many intermediate states of plumage, and the various characters are more indicative 
of nonage than sexual difference of plumage. Goffin describes a female of this species killed 
by Heer Pel in Guinea as having the throat black, showing that the white markings are 
not characteristic of sex. A specimen in the British Museum, labelled T. flaviimnctata 
( Verreaux), has the upper plumage suffused with brown, besides showing the characteristic 
differences given above in the description of the immature bird. Both the specimens in 
the Leiden'^Museum, with the white markings on the throat were killed at St. George 
d'Elmina, one in spring, the other in summer.' 
The figures in the plate show an adult and an immature bird, both from Mr. K. B. 
Sharpe's Museum ; they are from Fantee. 
The peculiar appearance of the breast, caused by the long hair-like bristles, distinguishes 
this bird at a glance. Verreaux gives the followmg account of its habits, which closely 
resemble those of its numerous congeners. " It is found in the great forests in the 
interior of Gaboon, where it lives in pairs; it feeds on insects, which it seeks among the 
branches and crevices of the bark. It is neither gregarious nor migratory, and is not a 
particularly shy bird ; it breeds in holes in trunks of trees not far from villages. 
