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Adult female, 26 September, Humpata. 

 Iris dark brown , bill and feet black. 



103. Dilophus carunculatus (Gm.). 



Diloplius caruuculatun , fcjhaipe, BiiUd fcJ. Air. p. 421; — Boe. Orn. 

 d'Ang. p. 302. 



Immature male with only the malar streak naked , 7 

 November, Okovango. 



Iris brown, bill horn-colour, feet black. 



104. Lamprocolius s y c oh iu s (Licht.). 



Lamprocolius sycohius, Sharpe, Birds S. Afr. p. 426; — Boc. Orn. 

 d'Ang. p. 308. 



Adult male, 29 June, and adult female, 13 February, 

 both from Humpata. The female is considerably smaller 

 than the male. 



Iris pale orange, bill and feet black. 



105. Plocepasser m a h a li , Smith. 



t 



Plocepasser mahalt , Sharpe, Birds S. Afr. p. 447; — Boc. Orn. 

 d'Ang. p. 318. 



An adult male , 14 December, Kasinga River. 

 Iris brown , bill and feet reddish horn-colour. 



106. Plocepasser rufoscajyulatus, n. sp. 



(PI. U, fig. 2). 



Crown and sides of head and occiput grayish buff, front 

 black , and also a double , broad band , running from 

 the front along the crown and uniting on the occiput, 

 leaving the centre and sides of the crown grayish buff. 

 Lores of the latter color, each feather tipped with black ; 

 a broad, ill-defined black streak running from the lores 

 along the lower margin of the eye and above the ear- 

 coverts to the sides of the neck. Moustachial streak , cheeks 

 and ear-coverts somewhat paler than the gray parts of 

 the crown and separated from chin and throat by a nar- 



Notes from the Leyden IMuseutn, "Vol. X. 



