62 Short Xotices of Ornithulor/ieal Puhlicatiojis. 



Length 198 mm. in the flesh ; wing 93 ; tail 91 ; bill 15; 

 tarsus 31. 



The type is in the Transvaal Museum. 



Descriptions of Two nexo Species of Flycatcliers from Portnqvese 

 South-East Africa. By Alwin Haagner, Assistant, Trans- 

 vaal Museum. 



Amongst a small collection of skins sent me in August, 

 1908, for verification and identification by Mr. P. A. 

 Sheppard, of Beira, several appeared to be new to science. 

 To make certain of this before describing, they were sent 

 to Dr. Reichenow, of the Berlin Museum, for comparison, who 

 very kindly acceded to my request, for which I wish to 

 tender him my thanks and due acknowledgment. 



From the locality in which Mr. Sheppard resides, a 

 collection of birds has already been made by a trained 

 collector — Mr. C. H. B. Grant, of the British Museum — and 

 from which several new species have been described, so it is 

 all the more noteworthy that, in addition, three new species 

 and several new records for South Africa have been discovered 

 by Mr. Sheppnrd. 



I have named the first species after its discoverer, and for 

 the second a new genus seems necessary, to which I have also 

 attached the name of its collector, giving to it the specific 

 name of gunningi, in honour of Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, 

 Director of the Transvaal Museum, who is now my chief. 

 These birds have since been acquired by the Transvaal 

 Museum. 



Batis sheppardi, sp. nov. 



(A.) Male. Top of the head and nape grey ; a broad black 

 band frotn the bill through the eye, over the cheek, and 

 continued on to the nape ; above this, a short, narrow, white 

 line, forming the commencement of an eyebrow. Upperside 

 olive-brown, the feathers of the mantle and back with more 

 o'- less partly hidden white spots ; rump much greyer. Upper 

 tail-coverts black ; throat and sides of neck snow-white, 

 followed bv a broad breast-band of orange-brown, which is 



