LMIM 
Strickland’s Andropadus. 
Andropadus latirostris , Strickland, Proc. Zool. Soc. p. 100, 1844. 
The beautiful plant represented on this plate is the Jonesia Ashoka; it is copied from a 
drawing of Col. Sykes’, to which the following remarks are annexed:—“ Curlee Cave, March 8th, 
1825. Ashoka, called ‘ Wassungee ,’ a forest tree, a parasitical shubby plant growing on it. A 
Kombee at Koaree recognised the drawing, and called it ‘ Wassungee ,’ saying it grew in the 
jungle about Koaree.” 
Mr. Strickland, who described this bird from my own collection, mentions a specimen having 
a yellow streak on each side of the chin; at the time this plate was prepared the bird in question 
was not to be found, I have consequently here given what Mr. Strickland conceives to be a younger 
individual. 
Of the species he adds, that the beak is considerably depressed, and formed like that of a 
Muscicapa; the teeth of the upper mandible are distinct and regular, but disappear about the 
middle of the beak. The lower mandible is also furnished with five or six serrations, but very low 
and indistinct. The wing is much rounded, the fifth quill being the longest and the rest gradu¬ 
ated. The colour and texture of plumage are much like that of the East Indian Pycnonotus 
flavirictus, Strickl. 
Of the younger individual represented on the plate, he remarks, that the dimensions and 
plumage are the same, but the yellow streak on each side the chin is wanting, and the lower 
mandible wants the serrations, and exhibits only a small sub-terminal notch. 
Habitat, Fernando Po. 
Total length, six inches and three quarters. 
