128 BIRDS OF DAMARA LAND. 



responding measiu'cmcnt iu the Damara bii'd by about tliree 

 tenths of an inch ; and the tarsus of the Cape bird is fully one 

 tenth of an inch longer than that of its Damara congener. 



The late Mr. Strickland's collection, now preserved in the 

 Museum of Zoology at Cambridge, contains a Dicrurus from 

 Kordofan, labelled " D. divaricatus -j" and to this species Mr. 

 Strickland also referred the Damara race, from which, however, 

 this Kordofau specimen differs in having the secondary wing- 

 feathers about a quarter of an inch shortci', and the bill a little 

 broader at the base. 



For the reasons explained in Lord Walden's remarks, I have 

 not treated the Damara race of this Dicrurus as specifically 

 distinct from that found at the Cape. — Ed.] 



MUSCICAPID^. 



162. Melanopepla pammelasna (Stanley). Black Flycatcher. 



Mugcicapa luynhris, Miiller's Ois. d'Afriquo, pi. 2. 

 Melmwrnis ater, Layard's Cat. No. 305. 

 Melanopejyla pam?nel(^na, Gray's Hand-list of Birds, No. 4258. 

 Bradyoniis pcumnelana, Finsch & Ilartlaubs Vijgel Ost-Afrika'.^, 

 p. 320. 



[Drs. Finsch and Hartlaub refer [loc. cit.) to two examples of 

 this species obtained in Damara Land, one of which, if not both, 

 was collected by Mr. Andersson. 



A short note in Mr. Andersson^s MS., referring to a bird 

 resembling Dicrurus Ludwigi, Smith, and found sparingly near 

 the Okavango River, was probably intended to apply to this 

 species. — Ed.] 



163. Bradornis mariquensis, Smith. Mariqua Flycatcher. 

 Bradornis mariquensis, Smith's Zool. of S. Afi-ica, pi. 113. 

 Bradyornis mariquensis, Gurney, Birds Damar., Proc. Zool. See, 

 18G4, p. 2. 

 „ „ Andersson, ibid. p. 5. 



