YELLOW-THROATED SHORT-FOOT. 261 
covers, inclining to buff. Tlie chin, and half-way 
down the throat, is pale straw coloured yellow, 
which graduates on the breast into a fulvous brown, 
but little lighter than the back. 
Total length, 10 indies; bill from the gape, l^j, ; 
wings, 4f ; tail beyond, 2 | ; ditto from the base, 
4f ; tarsus, 1 ; hind-toe and claw, T 7 3 ; middle 
ditto, 1. 
AFRICAN BRISTLE-BILL. 
Dasycepliala syndadyla, Swains. 
Olive-brown ; beneath pale yellow ; tail rufous ; wings with 
the four first quills graduated ; toes syndaetyle. 
The very remarkable bird we are about to describe 
is, to the ornithologist, one of the most interesting 
contained in this volume. Although slightly men- 
tioned on a former occasion*, it has never yet been 
described ; and indeed the only specimen at present 
known is in our museum. It was received from 
Sierra Leone, together with the other species intro- 
duced in this volume, many years ago, by Mr. Bul- 
lock, at whose sale we purchased the whole. 
There cannot, in our opinion, be a doubt that 
this bird is one of those connecting links by which 
the genera Dasycepliala and Trichophorus are united. 
* North. Zool. ii. p. 486. 
