588 Capt. G. E. Shelley on 



18. Pholidauges verreauxi (op. cit. p. 42). 

 Angoniland. 



19. Lamprocolius sycobius (op. cit. p. 43). 

 Lindipe. Native name " Likwilili." 



20. DiCRURus LUDWiGi (op. cit. p. 47). 



Chilasulo. This Drongo is now recorded from British 

 Central Africa for the first time. 



In habits it is essentially a bird of the thick bush^ and 

 differs in this respect from the forked-tailed species, such as 

 D. afer, which are generally seen on the tops of shrubs in 

 the open country. It apparently ranges from Port Natal, 

 ■where the type was obtained by Sir Andrew Smith, to the 

 Congo and Tana Rivers, and, according to Dr. Reichenow, 

 Bohndorff procured examples of this species at Manyango 

 and Fischer at Muniuni. Sousa mentions a specimen as 

 having been obtained in Benguela by Anchieta. In the 

 British Museum there are now examples from Natal, Zulu- 

 land, the present specimen from Chilasulo, and two from 

 the Usarabara country to the north of the Pangani River. 



D. at7'ipennis, the type of which came from Sierra Leone, 

 is a doubtfully distinct subspecies of D. ludwiyi. It is 

 represented in the British Museum by one specimen from 

 the Gambia, three from Fantee, one from Shongo on the 

 Niger, one from Rio del Rey in Camaroons, and one (of 

 Du Chaillu's) from Gaboon. The only characters I can find 

 to distinguish D. atripennis from D. ludioigi are that the 

 ends of the tail-feathers in D. atripennis appear to be con- 

 stantly slightly wider and more rounded, and the shaft of 

 the outer feather is somewhat straighter and not curved at 

 the tip. On the average D. atripennis is slightly larger, and 

 the metallic gloss is generally brighter, except in the speci- 

 men from Shonga and that from the Gambia (the latter 

 being in partial moult) ; these have the plumage black with a 

 bluish gloss, almost confined to the upper parts. An appa- 

 rently very similar bird, obtained by Marclie at Doume, in 

 Gaboon, is the type of D. sharpii Oust. N. Arch. (2) ii. p. 97 

 (1879). 



