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continued on either side of the body on to the flanks, fadinir 

 into whitish on the lower portion. Middle of the under- 

 surface from the breast-band to the vent (incliidino; under tail- 

 covert) white. Axillaries and under wing-coverts for the 

 inner half white ; those nearest the edge of the wings black, 

 tipped with white. Upper wing-coverts black, the median 

 broadly tipped with white and the inner greater-coverts with 

 the outer web also white. Rectrices tipped with white, the 

 two outer feathers being also edged with white, very narrowly 

 on the innei', broader (about half of the web) on the outer 

 w^eb. Length (of skin) 111 mm. ; wing 60, 75; tail 35 ; 

 tarsus 18*5 ; bill 12 ; sex, incert. Locality : Mzimbiti, 

 about twenty-three miles from Beira, Portuguese South-East 

 Africa. 27th May, 1908. (P. A. Sheppard.) 



I take this bird to be a male, from the pure white chin and 

 throat, as the females of both molitor an 1 capensis have a 

 large patch of orange-brown on the throat, from both of 

 which, if a female, it differs in the absence of this patch. In 

 addition, the red flanks distinguish it from molitor and the 

 black upper wing-coverts from capensis. 



(B.) Female. Not quite adult ; collected on the 3rd May, 

 1908, at the same place as the preceding skin. This example 

 has the sides of the face dark gi^ey, and an eyebrow^ of 

 buffish-white from the base of the bill, carried on to the 

 temporal region ; chin white ; throat whitish, strongly 

 washed with orange-brown. Flanks grey. Wings like that 

 of B. capensis female. Length 110 rnm,; wing 59 ; tail 35 ; 

 bill 12. 



Professor Reiclipnow asked me to compare those birds with 

 the description of B. erytliropldlialma of Swynnerton before 

 describing, with which, however, it cannot be confused, as I 

 have already shown ; Swynnerton in his description distinctly 

 stating that his bird resembles B. capensis, differing only in 

 size and in the coloration of the iris, while my bird differs 

 considerably from B. capensis. 



Sheppardia, gen. nov. 

 Resembling Bradnrnis in the narrower bill (ir2.") mm. liro;i(I 



