OEXERA AND SPECIES OF BIRDS. 



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LXIV. MELANOPTERYX, Itekhenow. 



(Koiclieuow, Zool. Jabrb. 1886, p. 125 ; 

 Sbarpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. xiii. p. 476, 1890 ; 

 Eeicbenow, Vog. Afrikas, iii. p. 50, 1904 ; 

 Sbelley, B. Africa, iv. p. 362, 1905.) 

 Cinnamopteryx, Eeicbenow ; iSbarpe, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 471 (1890); Shellev, 

 B. Africa, iv. p. 356 (1905). 



1. nigerrima (T/f;?/.)- (p. 476.) 



(Reiehenow, t. o. p. 50 ; Shelley, t. c. p. 302.) 



W. Africa 



(Camaroous to the 



Congo). 

 E. to Equatorial 



Africa 



(Lake Di.stricts). 



'2. gracilirostris, BdcJicnou', J. f. O. 1909. p. 109. W. Africa 



(Upper Congo ; 

 Awakubi). 



3. maxwelli, Boyd Alexander, Bull. B. O. C. W. Africa 



xiii. p. 55 (1903). (Fernando Po). 



(Eeichenow, t. c. p. 52 ; Shelley, t. c. p. 303.) 



4. albinucha {Bocage). (p. 477.) W. Africa 



(Reiehenow, t. c. p. 52 ; Slielley, t. c. p. 3(i4.) (Liberia to the Niger). 



5. interscapularis {Reiehenow, Orn. MB. 

 1893, p. 29). 

 (Reiehenow, f. c. p. 53 ; Shelley, ;■. c. p. 301.) 



Equatorial Africa. 



fi. fuscocastanea {Bocage'). West Africa 



(Reiehenow, t. c. p. .")3.) (Sierra Leone to 



[tricolor (neo Hartl.). (p. 471.) Loango Coast). 



(Shelley, t. c. p. 350, pi. xxsviii.) Equatorial Africa 



rufoniger, Reiehenow, i. c. p. 53, pi. siv. (Lake Districts), 

 fig. 2 ; ShelleV: f. c. p. 3.')9.] 



