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64. Lamprocolius sycobius nordmanni Hart, and Neum. = L. sycoUus 



nordrnanni. 

 Lamprocolius sycobius nordmanni Hartert & Neumann, Orn. Monatsber. 1914. p. 11 (Mossamedee). 



Type : <J ad., Huilla, Mossamedes, 23. vii. 1906. W. J. Ansorge leg. No. 

 2376. 



65. Onychognathus intermedins Hart. = 0. fnlgidus intermedius. 



Onycognalhus (should be Onychognathus) intermedius Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1896, p. 56 (Lukolele, 

 Congo). 



Type : ad., Lukolele, Congo. Rev. Harrison leg. 



Sharpe and Shelley as well as Reichenow have united intermedius with 

 hartlaubi, but this is incorrect. Neumann {Journ. f. Orn. 1904, p. 568) has 

 explained that the type of 0. hartlaubi cannot have come from Fernando Po, 

 but must have been collected on the Lower Niger, where it is not rare, while 

 it has never yet been obtained on Fernando Po. The type agrcos absolutely 

 with a series collected on the Niger by the late Dr. Ansorge. It is true that 

 Salvadori, in 1903, in his list of the birds of Fernando Po, quotes Bocage, J orn. 

 Scienc. Lishoa (2), iv. No. xiii. p. 11, 1895, as authority for the occurrence on 

 Fernando Po, but Bocage only suggests that a flock of birds seen (not collected !) 

 there by F. Newton might have been 0. hartlaubi ! The Lower Niger birds, 

 therefore, must be looked upon as topotypical hartlaubi. Ten males from there 

 have the wings 125 — 132 (mostly about 128) mm. long, two females 120 — 122-5 

 mm. Two males from the Congo, two males and two females from the Kindu 

 forest and 320 km. west of Baraka, Congo Free State, collected by Rud. Grauer, 

 and two from North Angola (Ansorge leg.) agree with each other and differ 

 in being larger : wings, S3 134—136-5, ? 130—132 mm., and the bills are gener- 

 ally stouter, higher, not so pointed. These are my intermedius. Neumann 

 (Journ. f. Orn. 1904, p. 568) and Shelley (B. Africa, v. p. 105) credit me with 

 having named an " Amydrus niorio intermedius," but this was merely a slip of 

 memory by Neumann, and Shelley copied it from the latter, for I have never 

 given the name "intermedius" to a form of A. morio, though I described A. 

 morio shelleyi ! I may here add that A. morio shelleyi from East Africa is 

 actually intermediate between A. morio morio from South Africa and the much 

 larger ruppelliirom Abyssinia, but much nearer morio from which it only differs 

 slightly in size. 



Onychognathus fulgidus harterti Neum. from the Gold Coast is also very 

 distinct by its much smaller size from both 0. f. fulgidus and hartlaubi, as well 

 as, of course, intermedius, which is not a well-chosen name. 



66. Aplonis panayensis gusti Stres. = Aplonis panayensis gusti. 

 Aplonis panayensis gusti Stresemann, Nov. Zool. 1913. p. 375 (Bali). 



Type: cj ad., Danau Bratan, Bah, 21.iii. 1911. E. Stresemann Coll. 

 No. 328. 



67. Aplonis panayensis leptorrhynchus Stres. = Aplonis panayensis 



leptorrhynchus. 



Aplonis panayensis leptorrhynchus Stresemann, Nov. Zool. 1913. p. 377 (Pini Island, west of .Middle 

 Sumatra). 



Type : " $ " ad., Pini. Raap coll. No. 34. 



