On a new Timaliine Bird from West Africa. 89 



Sclater's collection was obtained by Mr. Wallace at Cobati, 

 Rio Negro. 



7. EUCKPHALA SUBCiERULEA, Elliot. 



Hab. Brazil? 



Type in my own collection. 



8. EUCEPHALA CiERULEA. ' 



Hab. Brazil, Guiana, Venezuela, Trinidad, Tobago. 



9. EucEPHALA CYANOGENYs, Priucc Max. 

 Hab. Brazil. 



N.B. In Pelzeln's ' Ornithologie Brasiliens ' (p. 33) we find 

 mentioned Hylocharis flavifrons (Gm.), of which many speci- 

 mens were obtained by Natterer in Brazil. This species is 

 referred by Gray (Handl. i. p. 148) to Eucephala ; but Herr 

 von Pelzeln having kindly sent me a specimen for examination, 

 I find that it is Chlorostilbon prasinus. ■■ ;j^'^^tx- ' ' ' • 



X. — Description of a new Timaliine Bird from West Africa. 



By Captain G. E. Shelley. 

 A recent collection of birds sent from Fantee by Mr. Aubinn 

 contained two specimens of a small bird of the family Tima- 

 liidce apparently new to science. 



Its peculiar coloration separates it from all the other mem- 

 bers of the genera Alethe and Trichostoma of this part of the 

 world ; and it belongs to the small eastern group to which the 

 name Drymocataphus* has been applied. I therefore propose 

 to call it Drymocataphus cleaveri. 



I must confess that, structurally, this bird seems to be a 

 very good Alethe ; but until the much-needed revision of the 

 family Timaliida has been accomplished, it will be convenient 

 to retain it in the above section, affording, as it does, another 

 remarkable instance of the Malayan element in the avifauna 

 of Western Africa. 



Drymocataphus cleaveri, sp. n. 

 D. suprk olivascenti-brunneus, supracaudalibus vix rufescente 

 tinctis, remigibus briinneis extus dorsi colore marginatis, 



* A genus founded by Blyth in 1849 (J. A. S. B. xviii, pt. 2, p. 815). 

 Type Brachijpteryx nigro-capitata, Eyton. Qy. derivation ? 



