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colour of the throat) in plumage, and he also remarked that in various specimens the throat 
varied from brownish yellow and reddish brown to yellowish ; but he adds that the fact of the 
freshness of its plumage is in favour of its validity as a distinct species, and he accordingly treats 
it as specifically separable from Melittopliagus bullocM. 
But little is on record respecting this bird. Dr. Yierthaler met with one in company with 
Me littop hagus bullocM above Khartoum, and, as above stated, Yon Heuglin records it from 
Southern and Eastern Senaar. 
In habits, and doubtless also in nidification, the present species does not differ from Melitto- 
jphagus bullocM. 
In the preparation of the above article I have only been able to examine a single specimen, 
the bird above described and figured, which is in the British-Museum collection. 
