WHITE-THROATED BRISTLE-NECK. 267 
back ; the wings and tail are the same, but darker, 
while the tips and inner margins of the lateral tail- 
feathers are pale yellowish, similar to those of the 
other species ; the space between the eye and hill 
is light grey, and the inner wing-covers yellow. 
Total length near 8 ; bill, from the front, ^ ; 
wings, Sjjj ; tail beyond, 1 ^ ; ditto from the base, 
3J ; tarsus, T K 5 ; hind toe and claw, *. 
STRIPE-BREASTED BRISTLE-NECK. 
Tricophorus strigilatus , Swains. 
Olive, striped on the breast and body with grey ; chin and 
part of the throat yellow, obscurely striped with white ; 
crown dark, varied with olive and grey. 
Tr. barbatus, PI. Col. pi. 88. 
Considering that in a group of birds like this, 
where the species so closely resemble each other, 
their specific names should more particularly be 
appropriate, or at least not- calculated to lead into 
error, we have been induced to describe this under 
the name of strigilatus rather than that of barbatus ; 
* The bird here described by Mr. Swainson seems to be 
the same with the T. tephrogenys , Plate 127 of “ Ornithologi- 
cal Illustrations.” “ T. supra caslaneus, gents griseis, gula alba , 
pectore abdomineque m edits JlareseentiliM, capite supra rufescens, 
rictu ualide vibrissato." The specimen there described was 
purchased, and was supposed to come from India ; we have 
since received it from Sierra Leone. — W. J. 
