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Show 1888.] FROM EQUATORIAL AFRICA. 29 No. 175. o*. Redjaf, Feb. 2, 1884. No. 926. 3. Redjaf, Nov. 23, 1883. No. 970. 3- Redjaf, Dec 15, 1883. This species is new to the British Museum Collection. It belongs apparently to the genus Galerita, being slightly crested, and it has the bastard primary short, only just extending beyond the primary-coverts, while in plumage it much resembles G. cristata. 59. PYRRHULAUDA LEUCOTIS (Stanley). Coraphites leucotis, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. p. 669. No. 973. 3. Dec 16, 1883. 60. PARUS NIGER, Bonn, et Vieill. Parus leucomelas, Pelz. Verh. Wien, xxxi. 1881, pp. 145, 609. Parus niger, Gadow, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. viii. No. 366. 3- Kiri, May 22, 1884. This is an adult male with no white edges to the tail-feathers ; in this character, and indeed in all other respects, it agrees perfectly with a Damara specimen in the British Museum, so that I cannot admit that there are any constant local races of this species. 61. iEGITHALUS PARVULUS, Heugl. AUgithalus parvulus, Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem. vii. 1881, p. 99 ; id. Zool. Jahrb. ii. 1886, p. 347, pi 12. fig. 3. No. 370. tf. Kiri, May 24, 1884. This species has been well figured by Dr. Hartlaub, and is quite distinct from M. capensis, of which it is the northern representative. 62. JEGITHALUS MUSCULUS, Hartl. JSgithalus musculus, Hartl. J. f. O. 1882, p. 326 ; id. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem. viii. 1882, p. 198 ; id. Zool. Jahrb. ii. 1886, p. 347. No. 218. 2 • Lado, Feb. 25, 1884. Nos. 252, 283. 3 2 - Lado, March 1S84. Like the last, this species is new to the British Museum. It comes nearest to AS. caroli, Sharpe, from which it may be readily distinguished by its hoary white throat and chest, and the abdomen onlv tinted with rufous buff. The forehead is uniform with the upper parts, and the sexes are similar in plumage. 63. PHILET-ERUS ARNAUDI (Bp.). Niqrita arnaudi, Hartl. Abhandl. nat. Ver. Brem. vii. 1881, p. 104 ; Pelz. Verh. Wien, xxxi. 1881, p. 150 ; xxxn. 1882, " Phiielcerus arnaudi, Shelley, Ibis, 1886, p. 308. No. 953. 2- Redjaf, Dec. 2, 1883. Iris chestnut; bill black ; legs dusky flesh-colour. |