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led Mr. Grant to stale that L. auchen Bp. 1853 was based on birds " intermediate 

 between L. dealbdtus and L. jM'Uidhvstris." 



I have examined the cotype of L. aucheri in the British JMuseum, and Mr. 

 liellmayr lias confronted the two tj-pical examples in the Paris Museum with skins 

 from the Tring JIuseum. There is no doubt whatever that L. aucheri is the bird 



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'I'wo outei- iLctrices o£ X. c, aveheri. 



afterwards so well described and figured by Dr. Finsch under the name of L. faU(U. 

 The following is a de.-^cription of the tyjjical examples of L. dtichcri in Paris. 



1. Adult bird, mounted; on label: " L. aucheri Bp. Type, M. Auclier-Eloy. 

 Perse 1840. No. 10003." Rill entirely black. Narrow, sharjjly defined black 

 frontal line, rest of upper surface unifoi-m ash-grey (scapulars incomplete !) Upper 

 wing-coverts i^lack, only the least wing-coverts grey. Only one large white alar 

 " speculum," reaching from the second to the tenth i)riniary and extending over both 



