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462 Mr. D. G. Elliot on the Genus Malimbus. 
Euplectes rufovelatus, Fras. P. Z.S. 1842, p. 142; id. Zool. 
Typica, pl. 46; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 472. 
Sycobius malimbus, Hartl. Syn. Ornith. W.Afr. (1857) 
p- 180. sp. 8399; Sharpe, Ibis, 1870, p. 472; Bonap. Consp. 
Gen. Av. vol. i. p. 438. sp. 2. 
Tanagra malimbica, Daudin, Ann. du Mus. 1 p. 148, 
pl. 10. fig. 2, 9 (1802). 
Malimbus rufovelatus, Sharpe, Cat. Afr. Birds, p. 60.sp.570; 
Ussher, Ibis, 1874, p. 68. sp. 131. 
Sycobius nuchalis, Elliot, Ibis, 1859, p. 393 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 
1869, p. 191, 1870, p. 472. 
Hab. Denkera, Gold Coast (Ussher); Fernando Po (Fraser); 
Gaboon (Du Chaillu) ; Congo (Perrein) ; Fantee (Sharpe). 
Several authors have endeavoured to confer a name on this 
species. I have had a shot at it myself, and, like the majority, 
have been unsuccessful. As well as I can make it out, the 
case stands as follows :—It was mistaken by both Daudin and 
Vieillot for the female of the species called by the latter 
writer Malimbus cristatus. It is undoubtedly the bird de- 
scribed by Temminck in his Catalogue (/.c.) as from the Congo ; 
but he does not confer any Latin name upon it. He states 
that the female has the entire plumage a brownish black. 
This is the only mention of the female I have met with. 
Somewhere about this time, as given by writers generally, 
Temminck calls the species Textor malimbus; but, so far as I 
am concerned, this name cannot stand, for two reasons. One 
is that I have been unable to find it published anywhere by 
Temminck, and suppose his name is merely a manuscript one 
in the Leyden Museum, and therefore not to be considered ; 
and another is that his term is a repetition of the name of 
the genus to which the bird belongs, and therefore could not 
be used, even if I should find it, on account of its liability 
to create confusion. Temminck seems therefore to be out 
of this question entirely. Swainson, in his ‘ Menagerie,’ in 
1838, regularly described the species and called it Ploceus 
rubricollis ; and by this specific name the bird should hereafter 
be known. In 1842 Fraser (l.c.) gave to it the name of 
rufovelatus ; and in 1859 I bestowed upon the unfortunate 

