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Show 594 CAPT. G. E. SHELLEY ON [May 3, bohm's collection; and I think that the following measurements prove their specific identity :- a. b. c. d. e. Total length. in. Juv., Sikkim .. 9*5 Ad., Sikkim .. 9*3 Madagascar.... 11 Culmen. in. 0*65 0*65 0*60 0*70 0*70 Wing. in. 5*9 5*65 5-8 5*75 6*8 Tail. in. 5-4 5 57 5*2 6*3 149. COCCYSTES JACOBINUS (Bodd.). Coccystes jacobinus, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, pp. 597, 711 ; Nicholson, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 359 ; Gurney, Ibis, 1881, p. 128. Coccystes pica, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 238 ; Fischer, J. f. O. 1879, p. 303 ; Fischer & Reichenow, torn. cit. p. 342. Usambara mountains. I also possess a specimen from East Africa, collected by the late Mr. E. C. Buxton at Dar-es-Salaam. This species ranges throughout East and South Africa. Its northern limit on the east coast is the Anseba valley, 16° N. lat., while on the west coast it has not been met with north of Biballa in Benguela. 150. COCCYSTES AFER. Coccystes afer (Licht.), Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 596. Usambara hills ; Usambara mountains ; Dar-es-Salaam. This species ranges from the White-Nile district along the east coast to South Africa, and thence on the west coast to as far north as Sierra Leone. 151. COCCYSTES ALBONOTATUS, sp. n. 1 Coccystes serratus, Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 237; Fischer & Reichenow, torn. cit. p. 252 ; Fischer, torn. cit. p. 291. Usambara hills. Very similar to C. serratus, Sparrm., from which it differs in having a large white spot on the outer webs of the two pairs of lateral tail-feathers, in the under tail-coverts being broadly tipped with white, and in its rather larger dimensions. Total length 14*8 inches, culmen 1*1, wing 6*5, tail 9, tarsus 1*15. Mr. Gurney first pointed out to me the necessity of separating this species from the South-African C. serratus, and writes :-" M y specimen from Mombas exactly agrees with your description. The measurements of my bird are as follows-culmen 0*9 inch, wing 6*7, tail 8*9, tarsus 1*2. 152. CHRYSOCOCCYX CUPREUS. Chrysococcyx cupreus (Bodd.), Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 522; Fischer, J. f. O. 1877, pp. 180, 424, 425 ; Cab. J. f. O. 1878, p. 237 ; Fischer & Reichenow, torn. cit. p. 252; Fischer, torn |