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LX. MEGABIAS, J. ^- E. Verr. 



(Shiirpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mas. iv. p. 387, 1879.) 



]. atrialatus(C'rtte-.).* W.Africa 



{flnmmuhtm, J. & E. Vein-, (p. 387.)] (Gold Coast 



to Gaboon). 



LXI. SMITHORNIS, Bp. 



(Sbarpe, t. c. p. 388.) 



1. capensis {S?nif7i). (p. 388.) 



S.E. Africa. 



2. riifilateralis, Grai/. (p. 389.) 



W. Africa 

 (Gold Coast). 



LXII. ARTOMYIAS, J. 4- E. Ven-.f 

 (8harpe, t. c. p. 144.) 



1 . fuliginosa, ■/. # E. Verr. (p. 144.) 



W. Africa 

 (Gaboon to 

 the Congo). 



2. ussheri, Sharpc. (p. 144). 



W. Africa 

 (Gold Coast). 



* Mr. Wituier Stone informs me that he has recently examined tlie tjpe of Cassin's 

 Dn/oscopus atrialatus at the request of Prof. Keichenow, who suggested that it might 

 be the male of M.jiammulatus. This Mr. Stone has found to be the case. 



t SheUey in his List of the ' Birds of Africa ' includes two more species of Arto- 

 myias: — Artomyias stiMmaiiiii (Shelley, ;*. c. p. 95, no. lli'30) = Miisi:icapa stuhlmanni, 

 Shelley, op. cit. p. 04, no. \Z\9= Pedilorhi/nchus sfuhlmanni, Reichenow. {Cf. p. 212 

 of the present ' Hand-list.') Artomyias diabolica (Reichen. & Neuni. ; Shelley, op. cit. 

 p. 95), is not a Fljcatcher but a Weaver-Finch of the genus Nigrita. 



