. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 376 Adult male. Back, scapulars, niinp, and upper tail-coTcrts olive, the rump-feathers tipped witli _vellow; wing-coverts olive, the lesser and the mediau series sparingly spotted with white; quills black, the outer webs of the primaries partially or entirely margined with olive and spotted with white, those of the secondaries entirely olive ; inner webs of the quills (except the innermost) spotted with white ; shafts black; tail and the shafts black ; nasal plumes dusky brown mixed with white; forehead and crown brown, the feathers of the hind
. Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. 376 Adult male. Back, scapulars, niinp, and upper tail-coTcrts olive, the rump-feathers tipped witli _vellow; wing-coverts olive, the lesser and the mediau series sparingly spotted with white; quills black, the outer webs of the primaries partially or entirely margined with olive and spotted with white, those of the secondaries entirely olive ; inner webs of the quills (except the innermost) spotted with white ; shafts black; tail and the shafts black ; nasal plumes dusky brown mixed with white; forehead and crown brown, the feathers of the hind crown tipped with golden yellow; occiput and nape black hind neck like the back, the sides transversely spotted with white face, chin, and throat white, the supercilium striped with black an auricular stripe of black, and bordering the throat and fore neck another black stripe, the tips of many of the feathers of the latter white ; sides of the neck and chest olive-black, and, with the remainder of the underparts which are dusky olive, spotted with white (except upon the abdomen, which is uniform or sometimes transversely varied with yellowish), some of the abdominal feathers tipped with dull golden yellow; under tail-coverts dusky olive, spotted with white ; under wing-coverts black, spotted and barred with white; axillaries barred black and white. Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 1-23, wing 4-5, tail 2-66, tarsus 0-87 ; toes (without claws)—outer anterior 0-62, outer posterior 0-75, inner anterior 0"5, inner posterior 0'32. Adult female. Kesembles the adult male, but wants the yellow on the crown. Total length 8*5 inches, culmen 1-15, wing 4-46, tail 2-66, tarsus 0-8. Bab. Gaboon and the Congo, east to the northern part of the Congo Free State (Aruwimi River), and in the Niam-Niam Country. h. Gaboon. A. Marche [C.]. a. d' imm. 2 ad. sk c. j ad. sk N'doruma, Niam-Niaui Country, Aug-. F. Bohndoi'ff[C.]. 25. XIPHIDIOPICUS. Xiphidiopicus, £p. Co7isp. Valuer. Zygocl. no. 21
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