416 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on nexu African Birds. 



subcaudalibus pallide ferrugineis : subalaribus albis : ro- 

 stro et pcdibus uigricantibus : long, tota 3, alse 2*1, caudse 

 125, tarsi 0*55, rostr. culm. 0'35. 

 Hab. Ovaquenyama, Damara Land, May 1867 [C. J. An- 

 dersson). 



I am indebted to Mr. Gurney for the correction of an error 

 I had made in my ' Catalogue of African Birds/ in referring 

 the bird above described to the j^githalus minuius of Shaw. 

 This name is founded on the Bec-lleur of Levaillant (Ois. 

 d.'Afr. pi. 134), and must therefore be regarded as a synonym 

 of ^. capensis. Mr. Gurney and I were of opinion that the 

 Damara bird might be jE. pensilis of Lichtenstein, of which 

 species no description has ever been published. On sending, 

 however, one of my specimens to Professor Peters, he very 

 kindly compared it with Lichteustein's type in the Berlin Mu- 

 seum, and informed me that the two birds are not identical. I 

 have therefore named the species after the late Mr. Charles John 

 Andersson, who originally discovered it. 



5. Artomyias ussheri, sp. n. 



A. fuliginoso-niger : subtiis cinerascens, pectore medio albi- 

 cante : subcaudalibus conspicue albo marginatis : gula 

 cum loris albicantibus : genis albido lavatis : tectricibus 

 alarum majoribus et remigum rectricumque apicibus albis : 

 rostro et pedibus nigricanti-brunneis : long, tota -i'/, alfe 

 3*1, caudse 2*0, tarsi 0-5, rostr. culm. 0*3. 

 Hab. Fantee. Collected by Governor Ussher. 

 This bird is strictly congeneric with Artomyias fuliginosus ; 

 and Dr. Finsch thinks that it may ultimately turn out to be a 

 stage of plumage of that bird, as Dr. Hartlaub (Orn. W. Afr. 

 p. 272) has described the young of that species as having the 

 abdomen, rump, and quills spotted with white. I think, how- 

 ever, that there is very little chance of A. ussheri being the 

 young of A. fuliginosus; for the markings are characteristically 

 dijQferent, and I should incline to believe that the grey plumage 

 is most probably the adult dress. In that case the Fantee 

 bird could not be the same as that from Gaboon, as it is rather 

 smaller. Mr. Ussher shot the type specimen himself at Ab- 

 robonko, on the 14th of January 1871. "It was killed," he 



