Mr. D. G. Elliot on the Genus Malimbus. 
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Anaplectes. 
ee. General plumage cinereous. 
d. Head, throat, and breast red; chin, ear-coverts, 
and lores black; edge of outer web of pri¬ 
maries red .. ............ 8. M. melanotis. 
e. Head entirely and throat scarlet; edge of outer 
web of primaries yellow . 9. M. rubriceps. 
Sycobius. 
Malimbus cristatus. 
Tanagra malimbica, Daud. Ann. du Mus. (1802) vol. i. pi. 
10. fig. 1, Shaw, Nat. Miscell. pi. 581. 
Malimbe huppe, Yieill. Analyse (1816), p. 33. 
Malimbus cristatus, Yieill. Ois. Chant. (1805) pi. 42, <5; 
Sharpe, Cat. Afr. Birds, p. 60. sp. 572; Shelley & Buckl. 
Ibis, 1872, p. 289; Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 68. sp. 130. 
Ploceus cristatus, Yieill. Enc. Meth. p. 700; id. Nouv. 
Diet. d^Hist. Nat. (1819) vol. 34. p. 129. 
Sycobius -, n. sp. ? J. V. Barboza du Bocage, Jorn. 
Sc. Math. Lisboa, vol. i. p. 140 ? 
Sycobius cristatus, Gray, Gen. of Birds, vol. ii. p. 352; 
Hartl. Syst. Ornith. W.Afr. (1857) p. 132. sp. 398; Sharpe, 
Ibis, 1869, p. 191. sp. 31, 1870, p. 472; Bon. Consp. Gen. 
Av. vol. i. p. 438. sp. 1. 
' Sycobius nigrifrons, Hartl. Journ. fur Ornith. 1855, p. 356. 
Hob. Denkera (Ussher); Gold Coast (Shelley); Bio Boutry 
(Pel); Eantee (Sharpe); Aguapim (Riis); Bio Quito (An¬ 
chieta) ; Biver Muni (Du Chaillu); Congo (Perrein ). 
This species was first described by Daudin (l. c .) from spe¬ 
cimens sent from the Congo by Perrein. The type is now in 
the Paris Museum at the Jardin des Plantes. He called it 
Tanagra malimbica, and described as the female the species 
named afterwards rubricollis by Swainson. Uncoloured 
figures are given of both, and descriptions in Latin and 
French. Yieillot, three years afterwards, figured and de¬ 
scribed the same specimens in his f Oiseaux Chanteurs ’ under 
the name of Malimbus cristatus, by which specific appellation 
the species has been generally known. He merely followed 
Daudin, and repeated his error in figuring Swainsou’s species 
