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Show 1888.] FROM EQUATORIAL AFRICA. 39 Nos. 79, 808. 2- Tomaja, Aug. 1883. 2 6*. Foda, Nov. 1, 1885. The specimens show that Latham described the female as Certhia verticalis, Shaw, the male as Certhia cyanocephala. 113. ANTHREPTES LONGUEMARII (Less.). Anthreptes longuemarii, Shelley, Mon. Sun-birds, p. 335, pi. 108. Anthreptes orientalis, Hartl. J. f. O. 1880, p. 213 ; id. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem. vii. 1881, p. 109 ; viii. 1882, p. 205 ; Pelz. Verh. Wien, xxxi. 1881, p. 609; xxxii. 1882, p. 501 ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xvii. 1884, p. 429. No. 765. 3 . Bongereh, July 22, 1S83. The British Museum contains eight specimens, which I have compared with two of m y own from Lado. My adult male has the lesser wing-coverts brilliant metallic green, which I cannot at all match in any of the other specimens, although a trace of green may be observed in all of them, often so slight as to be easily overlooked. It appears that in m y monograph of this family (I.e.) I rightly depicted the adult male and female. The immature male, as shown by Emin Pasha's specimen in this collection, has a rather bright yellow abdomen, and has assumed the metallic purple colouring of the head and back before getting the metallic throat or discarding the white eyebrow. This proves, I presume, that Mr. Bohndorff's second specimen from Sassa was a young male, and not a female as Mr. Sharpe records it. With regard to size, the following measurements of the culmen and wings of ten specimens will show that no importance can be attached to them :- Gambia, 3 2 '• culmen 0"6, 0*65; wing 2-95, 2-6. Cassamanse, 3 2 2 '• culmen 0'65; wing 2-95, 2*65, 2'55. Sassa, c?ad. and probably 3 juv.: culmen 0-6, 0-65; wing 2*9, 2-65. Bongereh, 3 juv.: culmen 0 6 ; wing 275. Lado, 2 6* : culmen 0*6, 0*55 ; wing 2*6, 2*4. 114. ANTHREPTES TEPHROL^MA (Jard. & Selby). Anthreptes tephrolama, Shelley, Mon. Sun-birds, p. 333, pi. 72. fig 2. Nos. 24, 27. 3 . Tingasi, Oct. 1883. This is another of the species hitherto only known from the west coast. 115. ANTHREPTES HYPODILA (Fraser). Anthreptes hypodila, Shelley, Mon. Sun-birds, p. 345, pi. 111. figs. 1, 2. No. 272. 3- Lado, Oct. 23, 1885. No. 30. 3 • Tingasi, July 15, 1883. These birds agree perfectly with the West-African specimens, and have no metallic green on the outer webs of their primaries and greater wing-coverts. |
