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A. Birds fvotn the Congo. 



1. Eurystomus afer (Lath.). Vista. 



2. Ceryle rudis (Linn.). Ango Ango. 



3. Halcyon senegalensis (Linn.). Banana. 



4. » chelicuti (Stanl.). Bo ma. 



5. Merops erythropterus (Gm.), ad. Q, Banana. ' 

 Although this specimen agrees fully with those from 



Abyssinia and another from the Victoria Nyanza (Coll. 

 Fischer), I prefer to quote it under the head of M. ery- 

 thropterus instead of cyanostictus (Cab., v. d. Deck, Reis. IIL 

 p. 34 [1869]) or pusillus cyanostictus (Shelley, Ibis 1885, 

 p. 398). This eastern form is distinguished from the west- 

 ern , the true M. erythropterus , by a broader subterminal 

 black band across the tail and a blue superciliary stripe 

 extending occasionally onto the front. In the South African 

 and South West African birds , M. pusillus , the black 

 cross-band is also broader than in the specimens north of 

 the Gaboon, but the blue superciliary band is generally 

 wanting. There are, however, no sharp limits between the 

 typical northwestern form and both eastern and southern , 

 what we might call subspecies , as I found in Liberia seve- 

 ral specimens with the blue superciliary streak more or 

 less faintly indicated , and our collection contains a speci- 

 men from the Senegal with narrow cross-band on the tail, 

 in which the superciliary stripe is fully developed. 



6. Cinnyris hifasciatus (Shaw). 2 ad. males , Banana and 

 Ango Ango. 



7. Anthreptes tephrolaema (Jard. & Pras.). 



Nectarinia gabonica, Hartl. J. f. 0. 1861, pp. 13, 109. (Q). 

 AnUircptes lephrolaema, Shelley, Mon. Nect. p. 333, and espe- 

 cially the rectification in the same work , p. XLVI. 



An adult female with nest and an egg, 28 September, 

 Banana. The female bird , as well as nest and egg , are per- 

 fectly similar to those of A. rectirostris I collected in 

 Liberia, and which are mentioned under the head of Cin- 



Notes from tlie Leyden JMuseuni, "Vol. X. 



